samba-container

Container images for Samba services.

In the default configuration, the server container image exports one share, named "share", which is expected to be a volume provided by the host. A default user, named "sambauser" is predefined with a password of "samba".

The entrypoint for the server is the samba-container script. This tool is designed to help automate the management of samba tools & services in a container environment. This script is part of the sambacc project. The behavior of this tool can customized via a JSON based configuration file.

The project also provides a simple samba client container image that can be useful for testing.

Build the container

make build

Run the container

podman run --name samba --publish 10445:445 --volume=/path/on/host/to/share:/share:Z --rm  quay.io/samba.org/samba-server:latest

The port mapping (--publish) is only needed when running as non-root, e.g. for testing purposes.

Changing the configuration

The behavior of the container can be changed by invoking it with specific arguments for the samba-container script and/or setting environment variables.

You can include a custom configuration via the following method:

$EDITOR /path/to/config/config.json
podman run --name samba  --publish 10445:445 --volume=/path/on/host/to/share:/share:Z --volume=/path/to/config:/etc/samba-container -e SAMBACC_CONFIG=/etc/samba-container/config.json -e SAMBA_CONTAINER_ID=myid  --rm  quay.io/samba.org/samba-server:latest

The configuration may be used to define custom users or different share configurations.