This repo installs a simple samba nas on your Raspberry Pi.

Each share is mounted from the usb storage on the Pi and is mounted readonly for everyone.

This is a quick and convinient way to mount readonly shares on your home network for all to see.

Format your USB devices and add a folder called shares. Inside shares, you can add your folders that you want sharing on your network.

Example:

USB1
+ shares
|    + music
|    - photos
- pictures

USB2
+ shares
     - documents

The above layout will create samba shares 'music','photos' and 'documents'. It will not create a share called pictures as its not in the shares folder.

Use Raspberry Pi Imager to install the Raspberry Pi Lite OS on an SD card. A small 1GB SD card is ideal, but you can use anything above this.

Copy 2 files onto the boot volume

• ssh (to enable ssh on boot)
• wpa_supplicant.conf (to auto join your wifi network. More info https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-wifi-setup/#wpa_supplicantconf )

Place the SD card in your Pi and power on. After a few mins, you should be able to ssh to the new device (default hostname is raspberrypi).

default user is pi
default pwd is raspberry

Run the following in /home/pi

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pantson/rpi_simple_usb_samba/main/install.sh | sudo bash

This will install and setup the shares.

It is recommended that you change your default user and password and also the hostname of the device. Run raspi-config to do this

sudo raspi-config

This script will install samba, ntfs-3g and fuse.

On every boot it will scan the plugged in USB drives and mount any folders that are in shares folder of a usb stick

These share will be set as public and readonly.

This makes it really easy for a home network as EVERYONE will have READ access to the shares.

If you are wanting authentication per user, this is not the script for you.

The script will not change the hostname of the raspberry pi device, nor will it set the password. To perform these actions, use raspi-config

sudo raspi-config