Cross Compiling Samba
Download the source and uncompress:
https://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/
wget http://samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.6.23.tar.gz
tar -xzf samba-3.6.23.tar.gz
And cross compile for ARM:
cd samba-3.6.23/source3
./autogen.sh
./configure --without-krb5 --without-ldap --without-ads \
--disable-cups --enable-swat=no --with-winbind=no \
--target=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi \
--prefix= --with-configdir=/etc \
samba_cv_CC_NEGATIVE_ENUM_VALUES=yes \
libreplace_cv_HAVE_GETADDRINFO=no \
ac_cv_file__proc_sys_kernel_core_pattern=yes
make
make install DESTDIR=/home/export/rootfs
Creating smb.conf
Create a Samba configuration file (smb.conf) and place it in /etc. Below is a minimal example configuration, sharing the home directories located in /home.
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = SAMBA_FS
[Home]
path = /home
writable = yes
comment = Home Directories
Starting Samba
Samba can be started using the following. smbd is the main Samba3 daemon and handles the SMB protocol. nmbd provides NetBIOS name server support.
/sbin/smbd -D
/sbin/nmbd -D
Creating users
You can add new Samba users using
smbpassword -a <username>
To be successful, there must be an entry in /etc/passwd corresponding to the user.
Notes on minimal systems
If smbd or nmbd reports smbd: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, then you are missing the GCC low-level runtime library. You can copy it from your arm-linux-gnueabi cross compiler:
cp /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /home/export/rootfs/lib
If smbd fails to start, check the logs in /var/log.smbd. If smbd fails to daemonise and there is no error message, potentially you have a user account problem. If you don’t have a /etc/passwd file, create one with a root and nobody user:
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/bash
Download pre-built binaries
The link below contains a bzip2 tarball of Samba compiled for ARM:
samba-3.6.3-arm-none-linux-gnueabi.tar.bz2 [md5hash 2e433743d8531644e71010f4a122d1bd]
Built using :
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc version 4.6.1 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2011.09-70)
samba-3.6.23-arm-linux-gnueabi.tar.bz2 [md5hash 52c8c8883fa1387623491c3ba1ca661f]
Built using :
arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)
./configure --without-krb5 --without-ldap --without-ads --disable-cups --enable-swat=no --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-winbind=no --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --prefix= --with-configdir=/etc samba_cv_CC_NEGATIVE_ENUM_VALUES=yes libreplace_cv_HAVE_GETADDRINFO=no ac_cv_file__proc_sys_kernel_core_pattern=yes ac_cv_func_getpwnam=no ac_cv_func_getgrnam=no ac_fn_c_try_run=no
./configure CC=arm-hisiv300-linux-gcc LD=arm-hisiv300-linux-ld ranlid=arm-hisiv300-linux-ranlid AR=arm-hisiv300-linux-ar --target=arm-linux --host=arm
mkdir -p /usr/local/samba/bin /usr/local/samba/lib /usr/local/samba/private /usr/local/samba/var
[global]
workgroup = workgroup
server string = camera
netbios name =camera
guest account=root
security =share
interfaces = ra0
[camera]
path = /mnt/mmc/
guest ok=yes
browseable=yes
writable = yes
create mode=0777
directory mode=0777