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HOW TO: VirtualBox Alpine Linux + rclone + samba share #2
Description
Download & Install Virtualbox host: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Download Alpine Linux Standard: https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/
Open Virtualbox and create new virtual machine:
Type: Linux
Version: Other Linux (64 bit)
Base Memory ( 1024MB + i would recomment at least 2048 )
Storage: 1GB dynamically allocated ( after rclone+samba etc it would still be bellow 500MB)
Storage Optical: Connect alpine ISO image.
Network: Bridged Adapter ( so you can assign your own static IP )
Disable Audio, Serial ports
Boot created virtual machine and once in terminal mode setup your hostname, ip, dns by typing::
setup-hostname
setup-interfaces
setup-dns
After restart network:
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Setup the Alpine Linux on your HDD
setup-alpine
Update Alpine:
apk update
apk upgrade
Install fuse
apk add fuse
Optional
apk add unionfs-fuse
Install Samba
apk add samba samba-common-tools
Before setting up rclone install certificates
mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs/
curl -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt
ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
Setup rclone and mount folders
Share rclone mount in samba by adding special samba user and creating smb.conf
Create new user:
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login mysambauser
smbpasswd -a mysambauser
Create config
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
dos charset = cp850
unix charset = ISO-8859-1
[cloud]
comment = TV backup
path = /path to rclone mount /
browsable = yes
writable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
write list = mysambauser
read list = mysambauser
valid users = mysambauser
Add samba to run at startup
rc-update add samba
Start samba;
rc-service samba start
You may consider adding your rclone mount script to boot in local.d so add it to boot by:
rc-update add local default
Now you can make new rclone mount script in
vi /etc/local.d/rclonemount.start
#!/bin/bash
rclone mount
--read-only
--allow-non-empty
--allow-other
--max-read-ahead 14G
--acd-templink-threshold 0
--checkers 16
--quiet
--stats 0
rcloneremote:/ /path to mount/ &
exit
vi /etc/local.d/rclonemount.stop
#!/bin/bash
fusermount -uz /path to mount/
exit
You can read more about local.d : cat /etc/local.d/README
Optionally you can enable SSH and run virtualbox in headless mode
To enable SSH
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Set : PermitRootLogin yes
restart SSH
/etc/init.d/sshd restart �
To start your virtalmachine in headless mode, create new batch file with content bellow:
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm "alpine" --type "headless"
exit
To stop or better yet stop and save last state you can make batch:
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" controlvm "alpine" savestate
exit
Once your virtalbox machine is running you can access it by typing in windows explorer:
\THE IP\NameOfShare ( in our case cloud )
use username and password you set for samba.
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Powerbless commentedon Feb 27, 2017
thank you for your tutorial! But i can only read the mount in windows. in linux i can create folders and files but when i connect to the smb trough windows then i can only read. have you any idea?
ajkis commentedon Feb 27, 2017
What kind of error do you get ?
Maybe enable fuse debugging on rclone mount and check in logs.
Powerbless commentedon Feb 27, 2017
i have another problem.
i have installed your linux etc...but wenn i will rclone config, i can not copy the secure_token in the vm. the copy stops at the half and abort
he say:
unexpected end of JSON input
ajkis commentedon Feb 27, 2017
You did not copy paste file correctly a part of it its missing.
I suggest you SFTP it to your VM.
Powerbless commentedon Feb 27, 2017
how can i do that? i have often used SFTP programs but not to send to a vm. can you give me a tipp?
ajkis commentedon Feb 27, 2017
Well your VM have an IP just SSH to it dont use the VM terminal directly.
Powerbless commentedon Feb 27, 2017
when i try to connect with putty he say i musst login. i type user "root" and the pw "root" but...access denied.
the login trough the vm with root and root works fine
ajkis commentedon Feb 27, 2017
Is Pass auth enabled in
/etc/ssh/sshd_configp.s. You could word wrap your rclone config so you make sure its copy pasted correctly.
Powerbless commentedon Feb 27, 2017
yes i have enabled how you have write this in your tutorial above. i deleted the # and the passwd*** and type "yes" behind PermitRootLogin
edit: login with SSH now works! i had an empty password. now with password it works
what do you mean with wordwrap?
Powerbless commentedon Feb 27, 2017
now, i have rclone conigured! Thx :-)
that mean when i connect in windows to
\\pcname\cloudthen he ask me for user and password. but there not correct. how can i now create a new user or change the old?
Powerbless commentedon Feb 28, 2017
update: now i can access from windows to the smb share!
now the problem:
i see all the files on ACD but i have no write permissions. i have only read permissions...bevore i mount the folder trough rclone (/media/ACD" i can create folders and files trough the share...but with rcloune mounted i have only write permissions
edit: i have it! i have added in smb.conf:
force user = rootPowerbless commentedon Mar 9, 2017
when i type:
rc-update add local default
he says:
and autostart does not work
Powerbless commentedon Apr 6, 2017
how can i run "modprobe fuse" on startup?
gnolascord commentedon Feb 27, 2018
i try to install rclone but gets following error:
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 959