Share a folder with Samba

Aurora
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Hi there.

I need to share a folder with my home network. How can I do this with Aurora or eventually Bluefin if not possible?

I usually have a very easy menu after right-clicking, but I don’t see anything. Usually kdenetwork-filesharing is installed already, but I can’t see anything.

Thanks in advance

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Hello, I just started using UniversalBlue this week and also needed a Samba server on my PC. You can easily activate Samba as follows (as root user):

rpm-ostree install samba samba-common samba-client --allow-inactive

Then have a look at the following documentation - because of selinux settings: GitHub - ublue-os/ucore: An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included

Cheers,
Andreas

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Thank you. I’m pretty sure I did everything from that link and more from Fedora’s docs, but I can’t see the shared folder from Windows.

I hope someone sooner or later will add easier samba, like a simple left click → share folder, because I’ve been trying this for hours and hours by now. :')

Remote desktop is also absurdly hard. Switched to KDE Plasma and works better, but can’t find any easy solution to share a simple folder. Normal users would throw everything away and go to ChromeOS or Windows as soon as possible.

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I got wsdd and samba working great. Have you sorted this out

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Don’t take this the wrong way but I got to say this:
When you managed to make it work, even place that statement in a thread where somebody doesn’t get it working, why don’t you explain how you did it:
what did you install, how did you set it up, in other words what did you do to make it work?
Only saying I got it working doesn’t help anybody.

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I was waiting whether anybody else was interested

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Yes, it would be of great help to everyone else who comes across this topic (like me). Please, do share how you made it work.

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Next release of aurora will have samba usershare support working ootb, you will be able to create a Samba usershare through Dolphin (right click a folder → Properties → Share). The first time you do it, you’ll have to add your user to the usershares group using the button. Credit goes to @tduck

Hopefully, we can get this added to the documentation. :slight_smile:

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Excuse me for the ignorance, what do we mean here with “next version”? :backhand_index_pointing_right::backhand_index_pointing_left:

I’d understand if it was Fedora or Ubuntu, but with Aurora I’d expect “the next image” (tomorrow? next week?)

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Next image, so depending what stream you are on, you already have it (latest/stable-daily) or will get it today when stable is built.

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That’s great news!

I was also unable to get shared folders working across the network or Remote Desktop into the machine working and had to give up, assuming these were functions only expert users could use. I suspect the problems are often SELinux related but have been unable to effect any changes via approaches suggested after looking around. This sounds like a welcomed change. Thank you, tduck!

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There’s more to it like enabling your firewall and setting samba to permanent , but you can start simply by:

rpm-ostree install wsdd
sudo systemctl daemon-reexec
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now wsdd.service

share_dir="/srv/samba/share"
samba_user="tolga"
smb_conf="/etc/samba/smb.conf"
sudo mkdir -p "$share_dir"
sudo chown -R "$samba_user:$samba_user" "$share_dir"
sudo chmod -R 770 "$share_dir"

sudo chcon -t samba_share_t "$share_dir" -R
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t "${share_dir}(/.*)?"
sudo restorecon -Rv "$share_dir"

sudo tee -a "$smb_conf" <<EOF

# -- SIMPLE SHARE ---------------------------------- #
[Aurora-Share]
   path = $share_dir
   browseable = yes
   writable = yes
   valid users = $samba_user
   create mask = 0660
   directory mask = 0770
   guest ok = no

EOF

sudo systemctl enable --now smb nmb

Followed by adding samba user to the directory’s group (important)!

sudo smbpasswd -a "$samba_user"
sudo smbpasswd -e "$samba_user"
sudo usermod -aG $(stat -c %G "$share_dir") "$samba_user"

I made a FULL script to automate this process as I love to setup networking on my local ring token at home. There again, the new image will provide a fix as I had alot of issues with the right click and adding the user to share group NEVER worked in aurora

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