{"id":7612,"date":"2026-01-31T12:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:31:57","slug":"samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/information-technology\/samba\/","title":{"rendered":"A Samba Share on Manjaro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manjaro is one of the better Arch based Linux distributions, but it has notorious frustrations with Samba. The latest rounds of frustration come from the fact they should have never supported Ubuntu Snaps. Snaps are insecure<\/a>. Because of that insecurity Manjaro had to add apparmor. That gets us back to the classic issue with Manjaro. Developers behind the distro always view conflicts between packages as “someone else’s problem.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating Your Share<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I had a spare 4TB drive (left over from my TNAS upgrade to 14TB drives, so it is old with a lot of miles on it) that I stuck in this HP EliteDesk i7-gen6 machine. I created a share out there just to have a place to park extra backup copies of the sequel for this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So, the first part is easy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Most Distros Suck at Multiple Drives<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This reality adds to the frustration most end users have with Linux. A segment of “the community” deemed it dangerous for Linux distros to just work<\/em> out of the box. Why, there could be a virus or something on those other drives<\/em>. We can’t just add them to FSTAB so they automount! Isn’t every Linux user editing and building their own kernel every week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quit listening to all of those so-called experts telling you not to use \/mnt. That’s what it is there for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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