Samba file shares on Raspberry Pi

Most of the time I use SSH to interface with my Raspberry pis, including CyberDuck for moving files. However, there are certain operations that require an old fashion file share.

Login to Raspberry Pi

From your favorite terminal app, login with ssh

Make sure you have Samba installed

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

Configure Samba

We’re going to add a share called *Music*.

Edit the file /etc/samba/smb.conf

At the bottom of the file, add something like this:

[Music]
path = /mnt/easystore/Music
writeable=Yes
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777
public=no
read only=no

Create a samba user

sudo smbpasswd -a pi

Restart Samba

sudo service smbd restart

Connect to Samba share from macOS

From the Finder

• Go to *Go > Connect to Server*
• Enter the address with the smb prefix (eg. smb://192.168.1.x)
• Click the + button to add it as a favorite (have to do this for it to ask for username and password for some reason...)
• Enter samba username and password you created earlier

Access from Terminal in macOS

You should now be able to access the share at

/Volumes/Music