RaspberryPi: Samba Share that’s Writable from Windows
After hours of looking for a way to share an attached USB with Windows, without passwords, I found this: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_NAS#Configure_a_public_storage_area_on_the_RPi
Although the tutorial looks good, I ended up with a variation from other tutorials, of which I can’t find the links for.
The idea is almost the same but my /etc/fstab looks like this:
UUID=5D42-JB31 /home/pi/usb32gb vfat defaults,rw,user,uid=1000,umask=000 0 0
and my /etc/samba/smb.conf addition looks like this:
[usbstick]
comment = USB Share
path = /home/pi/usb32gb
guest ok = yes
read only = no
browseable = yes
I also changed the workgroup setting to “HOME” for windows 7:
# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = HOME
