Is there a way to add auth for casaos samba

[Yrobot]

Is there a proper way to add auth check on samba share.

what i know

i find that casaos files sharing is based on the samba4, and the casaos samba config path is /etc/samba/smb.casa.conf.
as the config shows, all the dirs shared are public as default.

what i want

I want to auth some of the dirs.
For example, /A is public, /B is for user b, /C is for user C. Then the guest user could view /A; authed user b could view /A /B.

my opinion (may not work)

add the auth config in /etc/samba/smb.conf, and left the public config by casaos.

.... default casaos samba config

# auth conifg
[A] 
  comment = Authed by user a
  public = No
  path = /DATA/A
  valid users = a
  read list = a
  write list = a
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777
  force user = root

[thedroidkid]

Right now it is not a feature in CasaOS however, you can setup your own Samba shares.

[Yrobot]

Thx, i add a config file /etc/samba/smb.auth.conf, and config the authed smb in this file. which works just fine.

[ksdfpr]

Could please explain step by step what you did?

[Avhlin]

Here is what I did to Authenticate the shared folder in Casa Share

Short Version:
Step 1 In Casaos, Share a location.

Step 2 edit text /etc/samba/samba.casa.conf
There should be shared location
[dirName]
comment = Casa OS share (dirName)
public = Yes #change to No
#to turn off guest login
path = (share path)
browsable = Yes
read only = No
guest ok = Yes #change to No
#to turn off guest login
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
#force user = root #comment out
writable = yes #Add this so can write file and folders
valid users = (username1) (username2) guest #add this user list

***replace (username1) with your own user

Step 3 Add user to SMBdb (once)
Open Command Terminal.
with 1st sudo command you will need to input password of super user

sudo smbpasswd -a (username1)

#replace (username1) with your own user and complete input password for the (username1)

sudo smbpasswd -a (username2)

Step 4 restart CasaOS service

sudo systemctl restart casaos

Step 5 after setup is complete
Goes to /etc/samba/
make a bakup of samba.casa.conf
So when you make another share all the setting is there in the back up.

Now you can use user you create in SMBdb to access Casa Shared location.

Explaining:
CasaOs config file.
I found that from git code at service/shares.go

every time a share folder is created, it write Shared Folder Settings to /etc/samba/smb.casa.conf. So this is where we can config the shared for authentication.

Somehow, when new share is created reset my settings so we need to crate .bak. we can re insert them from .bak.

All the config setting are base on Samba Configuration file for share location setting.

About User, I don't know why SMB don't use user in Unix, so i have to manually add user to SMB service. (i'm new to this too)