Samba fileserver on FreeBSD (Update FreeBSD 12)
While building my new NAS, I came across the question how to install a fileserver based on Samba on FreeBSD. Here’s how…
Samba
Mount Time Capsule SMB from a Linux host
As it turns out, the Apple Time Capsule only uses SMB protocol version 1 and NTLM for authentication. While this works with macOS without any changes, it often creates problem when trying to mount the the Time Capsule’s SMB share on a Linux system. With this parameters, mounting should work out of the box, given you have the cifs-utils (Debian/Ubuntu) installed:
sudo mount.cifs //10.0.0.1/Data /mnt/timecapsule/ -o password='yourpw',sec=ntlm,uid=<local user>,vers=1.0
If you have any problems or further insights, feel free to leave a comment.
Building a FreeBSD NAS Part 4: Service deployment
In Part 3 of this series I described how to install FreeBSD and set it up properly. Now that the base system setup is complete, we can start providing services…