Samba
Motivation
This guide will help you on how to use samba on nixos.
excerpt of /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
services.samba.enable = true;
services.samba.securityType = "share";
services.samba.extraConfig = ''
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = smbnix
netbios name = smbnix
security = share
#use sendfile = yes
#max protocol = smb2
[rw-files]
comment = Temporary rw files
path = /storage
read only = no
writable = yes
public = yes
'';
If your firewall is enabled, or if you consider enabling it:
networking.firewall.enable = true;
networking.firewall.allowPing = true;
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 445 139 ];
networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ 137 138 ];
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Tip
In order to affect your NixOS system by your nix-language-specific changes you must first evaluate it:
$ nixos-rebuild switch --use-remote-sudo |
samba should startup afterwards
stopping/restarting the services
# systemctl stop samba
# systemctl start samba
# systemctl restart samba