Additional software installation - STwilight/Pi-Box GitHub Wiki

Installation of additional software provides comfort using of Pi Box.
Next plan will follow you to setup them:

• Updating packages
• Installing samba
• Configuring samba

Updating packages

For fetching info about last packages versions use command sudo apt-get update.
After that you'll need to run sudo apt-get upgrade -y command for updating already installed packages.

Installing samba

For comfort files and folders browsing on device it's suitable to install samba service: sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

Configuring samba

After samba installation we must configure it. Let's open main configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
Make sure, that specified below parameters values are the same (and uncommented) in your configuration file. If not – make them same:

workgroup = WORKGROUP
wins support = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
# valid users = %S

After that we are ready to create the share. In Share Definitions section add next strings:

[Pi-Box Project]
comment = Pi-Box Project
path = /home
browseable = yes
force user = root

Now save the file (by tapping Ctrl+O and Enter) and close it (Ctrl+X combo).

For now we are ready to add samba user.
For that execute sudo smbpasswd -a pi command and type twice prefered password for the pi user.

Now we have to restart samba server by the command sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart.

The share can be reached at address smb://%Pi-Box address% (for Linux) or \\%Pi-Box address% (for Windows) with pi user credentials.