tech101

Basically Samba lets windows PCs read from and write to rpi folder(s) – this interaction make life much easier.

at the command line type:

sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

Configuring

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

at the bottom add

[HDD]
   comment=PiCam HDD
   path=/HDD/usb
   browseable=Yes
   writeable=Yes
   only guest=Yes
   create mask=0777
   directory mask=0777
   public=Yes

then higher up find line

   workgroup = WORKGROUP

and change to

  workgroup = Mshome

now restart samba

sudo service samba restart

See Also

kind of the precursor post to this and once i find post linking I’ll link it…mounting a usb drive