ewindisch / docker-samba

Samba server running in docker containers

Samba for Docker

This runs a basic samba server underneath docker with a number of limitations and constraints.

This supports a tdb backend and unix users. Unix users are managed via a dedicated set of files for passwd/shadow/group.

Configuring

These Docker containers must be configured so that you may have users and working shares.

Share Paths (Docker)

It is necessary to tell Docker which directories on the host may be shared into the container. If these directories were not visible to the container, Samba would be unable to expose these shares to the network.

Edit etc/defaults/docker to set your share paths:

SHARE_DIR=/path/to/files/all/users/can/see
GUEST_DIR=/path/to/files/all/guests/can/see
HOME_DIR=/home

These will all be bind-mounted to the samba-smbd container, there is presently no way to disable any of these mounts. To disable a share path, point it to an empty directory, edit smb.conf, or edit launch.sh; Ideally, edit smb.conf and launch.sh both.

Samba Shares & Configuration

The default samba configuration should serve for very basic needs within the constraints of what is possible and reasonable within a Docker environment.

Still, it is likely that you'll want to change the configuration.

Edit etc/smb/smb.conf as desired and relaunch your containers.

Users

User management is performed through tdb and standard Unix password/shadow files. Edit these files within the etc/ directory and relaunch your containers.

For convenience, a user management tool is available as:

$ ./docker-samba usermod [add|delete|password] <user> <password>

The password option is mandatory for 'add' and 'password'. If supplied, the password is ignored for the 'delete' feature.

Running

$ ./docker-samba build
$ ./docker-samba launch

The build process should only need to be performed once, unless code changes have been made or an upgrade is being performed.

These commands MUST be run as root, or with a user granted priviledges to build and launch docker containers.

docker-samba's Issues

Running step on README

Please, change the instruction:

$ ./samba-docker build

to

$ ./docker-samba build

Thank you.

Usermod causes failed to open secrets.tdb due to missing directory

I get: "Failed to open /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb"
when trying to do usermod add. I see that ./var/lib/samba exists but not ./var/lib/samba/private. Making that directory first seems to work. Suggest touching a .empty file in that dir and adding it to git?

Also, your readme.md says samba-docker, but the command is docker-samba.

Exits as soon as it has started

The containers exit immediately after starting with ./docker-samba launch

The log output is:

smbd version 4.3.9-Ubuntu started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2015
STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connections

nmbd version 4.3.9-Ubuntu started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2015
STATUS=daemon 'nmbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connections
EOF on stdin
Got SIGTERM: going down...

Running the container manually not in daemon mode works docker run --rm -it -v $PWD/etc/samba:/etc/samba ewindisch/samba-nmbd $@ but this is less than ideal.