docker-smb - Docker Standalone Samba Server

Can be used to quick setup a simple Samba container in host network mode. It will run as if on host, so it can be accessed from other computers on the same network.

Newbie info?!

Host refers to the system installed on your machine.

Container refers to the container created by the docker.

Motivation

After the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 20.04 update, samba was updated to versions 4.11.+ , In version 4.11.0 support for SMB1 was removed, look here.

With this scenario, devices that need SMB1 cannot connect.

In my case the motivation for this container is that it became impossible to use Open PS2 Loader (Open-PS2-Loader Project) via SMB on Playstation 2 for using SMB1.

Container

This container uses the alpine 3.10 system as a base, so the installed samba version is below version 4.11.0, maintaining support for SMB1.

Alpine is a good choice because both the base image and the final image after installing the samba are small, the base image of ubuntu 18 for example ends with a size around 150mb.

Security

My recommendation is to use this project to mount shares that need to be SMBv1 and do not contain important files, remembering that SMBv1 has been discontinued.

In this repository, I kept the share for PS2 ONLY.

What about other shares?

In my current tests, it was possible to use Samba from Host and Container at the same time, but it generates incompatibilities with the OPL, the games appear, but crash when opening, maybe there is a way to fix it, but I haven't found it yet .

docker-compose.yml

You need to edit the folders and volumes that will be mounted in the container.

volumes:
  - /home/luiz/SMB/:/media/SMB:rw
  - /home/luiz/:/media/HOME:rw

The structure of volumes is: folder_in_host:folder_in_conteiner:rw

smb.conf

You need to setup the folders you want to share based on folders you previous setup in docker-compose.yml

On docker-compose.yml volume:

  - /home/luiz/SMB/:/media/SMB:rw

In smb.conf:

[PS2]
    comment = PS2
    path = "/media/SMB"

For PS2 (OPL) users:

IP Address Type : DHCP

Addresss Type   : IP
Address         : IP OF YOUR SERVER

Share           : ps2
User            : root
Password        : <not set>

This OPL Config works with this smb repository config.

Installation

I tried to make this script as simple as possible, but you still need the mount points and SMB shares manually.

What does this script do?

1. Install dependencies: git, curl docker, docker-compose e etc.
2. Clone repo.
3. Change user usarname, password, hostname and workdir in docker-compose.yml, Dockerfile, docker-smb.service and smb.conf based on host information, all this information, except the password is extracted directly from the system, the password is requested during installation.
4. Check if you want to use old smb.conf of your host or use repo config.
5. Install service.

Run

Download the install-samba.sh script, and launch it:

wget -P '/tmp/' "https://github.com/raw/luizoti/docker-smb/master/install-samba.sh" && sudo chmod +x /tmp/install-samba.sh && sudo /tmp/install-samba.sh -i