Making a tv laptop server with samba on a old macbook with external drives. Here are my notes.

Cross posted from https://thelemmy.club/post/56118572

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Install samba

lsblk

BEFORE

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS

sda             8:0    0   113G  0 disk  

├─sda1          8:1    0  1022M  0 part  /boot/efi

├─sda2          8:2    0     4G  0 part  /recovery

├─sda3          8:3    0   104G  0 part  /

└─sda4          8:4    0     4G  0 part  

  └─cryptswap 252:0    0     4G  0 crypt [SWAP]

sdb             8:16   0 298.1G  0 disk  

└─sdb1          8:17   0 298.1G  0 part  #<--------298.1G external Drive

sdc             8:32   0 298.1G  0 disk  

└─sdc1          8:33   0 298.1G  0 part  #<--------298.1G external Drive

sdd             8:48   1     0B  0 disk  

sde             8:64   1 115.5G  0 disk  

└─sde1          8:65   1 115.5G  0 part  /home/user/Kingston_124GB

sdf             8:80   1     0B  0 disk  

zram0         251:0    0   7.7G  0 disk  [SWAP]

mkdir /home/user/DISK1_320gb

mkdir /home/user/DISK2_320gb

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home/user/DISK1_320gb

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home/user/DISK2_320gb

lsblk

AFTER

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS

sda             8:0    0   113G  0 disk  

├─sda1          8:1    0  1022M  0 part  /boot/efi

├─sda2          8:2    0     4G  0 part  /recovery

├─sda3          8:3    0   104G  0 part  /

└─sda4          8:4    0     4G  0 part  

  └─cryptswap 252:0    0     4G  0 crypt [SWAP]

sdb             8:16   0 298.1G  0 disk  

└─sdb1          8:17   0 298.1G  0 part  /home/user/DISK1_320gb

sdc             8:32   0 298.1G  0 disk  

└─sdc1          8:33   0 298.1G  0 part  /home/user/DISK2_320gb

sdd             8:48   1     0B  0 disk  

sde             8:64   1 115.5G  0 disk  

└─sde1          8:65   1 115.5G  0 part  /home/user/Kingston_124GB

sdf             8:80   1     0B  0 disk  

zram0         251:0    0   7.7G  0 disk  [SWAP]

sudo blkid <---- this is how you get the drive id ‘UUID’ for Mounting in fstab

/dev/sde1: LABEL="124gb_thumb" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="654C0465C6FF2D15" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="0564g649-01"


/dev/sda1: LABEL="320_1" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID=4FA3B00604874FD1 TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="938j8ejr-03"


/dev/sdb1: LABEL="320_2" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID=060487D843853311 TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="830Jejnj-02"

sudo nano /etc/fstab

UUID=4FA3B00604874FD1 /home/user/DISK1_320gb ntfs defaults,nofail 0 0

UUID=060487D843853311 /home/user/DISK2_320gb ntfs defaults,nofail 0 0

UUID=654C0465C6FF2D15 /home/user/Kingston_124GB ntfs defaults,nofail 0 0

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

[Laptopserver_macbook]

   comment = Shared Folder

   path = /home/user/shareFolder

   read only = no

   guest ok = no

   writable = yes


[macbook-USB124]

   comment = Shared Folder

   path = /home/user/Kingston_124GB

   read only = no

   guest ok = no

   writable = yes

[DISK1_320gb]

   comment = Shared Folder

   path = /home/user/DISK1_320gb

   read only = no

   guest ok = no

   writable = yes
   

[DISK2_320gb]

   comment = Shared Folder

   path = /home/user/DISK2_320gb

   read only = no

   guest ok = no

   writable = yes

sudo reboot

done