SMB

Mounting

mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //MACHINE/SHARE /mnt/TARGET

or

mount -t cifs -o user=USERNAME,pass=PASSWORD //MACHINE/SHARE /mnt/TARGET

Samba share

In smb.conf:

[disk1]
    path = /path/to/disk
    available = yes
    read only = no
    browsable = yes
    public = yes
    writable = no
    guest ok = yes
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755

Allowing users

smbpasswd -a benjamin

If you don't do this, and you have log level = 3 in your smb.conf, you'll see the following error (and from the client you will get permission denied):

string_to_sid: SID benjamin is not in a valid format

Network visibility

To make your samba-enabled Linux box visible in the Network browser in Windows, we need a little helper. You get it from https://github.com/Netgear/wsdd2

git clone https://github.com/Netgear/wsdd2
cd wsdd2
make
sudo make install
sudo systemctl enable wsdd2
sudo systemctl start wsdd2

Fedora

On Fedora, samba is managed by the smb.service and not smbd.service. But wsdd2 as downloaded from github wants smbd.service. To fix this, edit wsdd2.service and change the BindsTo line:

[Unit]
Description=WSD/LLMNR Discovery/Name Service Daemon
# BindsTo=smbd.service
# on Fedora it is smb.service
BindsTo=smb.service

And (re-)run sudo make install

smbnetfs

sudo apt-get install smbnetfs

put auth stuff in ~/.ssh/smbnetfs.conf such as

auth machine/share username password.

Then

mkdir ~/smb # for example
smbnetfs ~/smb # to mount
cd ~/smb/machine/share
ls