samba - Aug 2019 - Alternatives to Samba for linux/Win7 file sharing.

I'm new to samba. I'm using 4.5.16-Debian at home to make available a
drive in a linux machine to two users on a Win7 machine.  Read-only.  No
concurrent access.  Low-throughput, no streaming etc.  That's it.  No other
sharing of any kind, no write-permission of any kind, etc.  My application seems
to require 1% of the capabilities of samba.  Samba is overkill.  What other
software based solutions are there?

I could just pop it in an enclosure and plug it in to which ever machine needs
it that day, or get a router that will network a drive, but there are draw backs
to those approaches so I'm looking for a software solution. Being a home
setup, I have full control of the two machines and the routers.

On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 16:31 +0000, Zalth via samba
wrote:
> I'm new to samba. I'm using 4.5.16-Debian at home to make available
a
> drive in a linux machine to two users on a Win7 machine.  Read-only. 
> No concurrent access.  Low-throughput, no streaming etc.  That's it. 
> No other sharing of any kind, no write-permission of any kind, etc. 
> My application seems to require 1% of the capabilities of samba. 
> Samba is overkill.  What other software based solutions are there?
> 
> I could just pop it in an enclosure and plug it in to which ever
> machine needs it that day, or get a router that will network a drive,
> but there are draw backs to those approaches so I'm looking for a
> software solution. Being a home setup, I have full control of the two
> machines and the routers.
The best I can suggest is Samba but don't touch the options.

That really is the simple option, yes, as an old project we have a lot
of tweaks that are genuinely useful to many of our administrators, but
the defaults are there for a reason, so just use those, that is likely
the simpler option you are looking for. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

> The best I can suggest is Samba but don't touch the options.
Apart from the default of allowing a Win7 user from accessing the home directory
on the linux machine, the default for one option is:

usershare allow guests = yes