Samba shares to MacOS

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Hi Guys,

I’m trying to create 3 different samba shares with different user/password and connect to them from MacOS.

Share:Media → user:Media
Share:InAndOut → user: PUBLIC
Share:Documents → user:john

so now my problem is that in MacOS if I connect to “nixSamba” as john, I actually see also the Media content, instead I will like to have and different user password for the Media share

is that because I need to create different mnt?

services.samba = {
  enable = true;
  securityType = "user";
  extraConfig = ''
    workgroup = WORKGROUP
    server string = nixsamba
    netbios name = nixsamba
    security = user 
    #use sendfile = yes
    #max protocol = smb2
    # note: localhost is the ipv6 localhost ::1
    hosts allow = 192.168.10. 192.168.20. 127.0.0.1 localhost
    hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
    guest account = nobody
    map to guest = bad user
  '';
  shares = {
    Media = {
      path = "/mnt/usb-wd-external/Media";
      browseable = "yes";
      "read only" = "no";
      "guest ok" = "no";
      "create mask" = "0644";
      "directory mask" = "0755";
      "force user" = "media"; # <---------
      "force group" = "users";
    };
    # public
     InAndOut = {
      path = "/mnt/usb-wd-external/InAndOut";
      browseable = "yes";
      "read only" = "no";
      "guest ok" = "yes";   # <---------
      "create mask" = "0644";
      "directory mask" = "0755";
      "force user" = "john";
      "force group" = "users";
    };

     Documents = {
      path = "/mnt/usb-wd-external/Documents";
      browseable = "yes";
      "read only" = "no";
      "guest ok" = "no";
      "create mask" = "0644";
      "directory mask" = "0755";
      "force user" = "john";   # <---------
      "force group" = "users";
    };
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I avoid SMB if possible, and if you can use NFS, you’ll have a much better time than server message block…for a multitude of reasons. but if your hands are tied, and you’ve force to use SMB…then…

the nixos test for this is basic unfortunately,

but…

seems to be a much more fully fledged configuration and more options you can play with.

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Thank you @nixinator,

I am wondering is you can share same example of NFS share (private and public)

Thank you!

John

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No worries.

If you want to configure any service , either look at the tests.

they are a great starting point to any ‘how do i deploy X’.

and the wiki, how ever some of it can be a little out of date.but it’s still cool.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NFS

I’m not sure about the state of the NFS in OSX currently, so that might be a bit more tricky if it’s needs intergration with kerberos, or some other directory services…Last time i did, it was fairly simple.

However this post and ‘solution’ further enforces to me the software entropy happening at apple (owned by microsoft).

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254508032

so maybe SMB is the best way to go.

The best mac I had in the last 5 years, was the one i wiped OSX and installed Nixos :wink:

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