[Gloucs] RPi and samba

Robert Wilkinson bob at fourtheye.org
Mon Oct 1 15:06:44 UTC 2012


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 03:04:01PM +0100, Glyn Davies wrote:
> Am trying to create a Windows share on one Raspberry Pi using samba
> and accessing it from another RPi running RASPBMC. The 'server' Pi is
> running Debian wheezy. Bascially I want a share that doesn't need
> password (it's for media files). I have tried for two nights now and I
> can't get this simple thing to work. Seems others are having similar
> problems and it may be to do with the latest samba config in the
> latest Debian. Can't get it working with a user+password either.
> 
> Anyone have a basic, working smb.conf with a non-passworded share?

Hi Glyn

       I have not used Samba on my pi, but I do regularly use sshfs
which is easy to set up with passwordless ssh keys. I am not sure if
this will help in your case though?

Bob



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