Compiling samba (almost) minimally for a NAS
 

Dear people,

I have an ARM NAS that runs Debian, and it is currently serving files via
NFS to some machines of mine.

Unfortunately, my wife has to professionally use Windows and, as the NAS
only has 128MB, I would like to cut back both the number of programs and the
memory footprint of them.

For sharing files, I plan on using a stripped down version of samba (taken
from Debian's samba packages), with, essentially, only file sharing being
enabled (and browsing the network, so that my wife can find the NAS).

I don't need things like directory services, authentication, roaming
profiles, printing support etc.

Is there anybody that has attempted to create such a smaller package? If
yes, which options did you disable? And which build-dependencies did you
strip from the package to get it as small as possible?


Thanks in advance for any help,

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Compiling samba (almost) minimally for a NAS
 

On Vi, 30 mar 12, 06:34:23, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Dear people,
>
> I have an ARM NAS that runs Debian, and it is currently serving files via
> NFS to some machines of mine.
>
> Unfortunately, my wife has to professionally use Windows and, as the NAS
> only has 128MB, I would like to cut back both the number of programs and the
> memory footprint of them.

Are you aware that Windows can access NFS (not sure how complicated and
if it requires administrator password though)

> For sharing files, I plan on using a stripped down version of samba (taken
> from Debian's samba packages), with, essentially, only file sharing being
> enabled (and browsing the network, so that my wife can find the NAS).
>
> I don't need things like directory services, authentication, roaming
> profiles, printing support etc.

Did you consider ftp?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Compiling samba (almost) minimally for a NAS
 

On Sex, 30 Mar 2012, Rogério Brito wrote:

Dear people,

I have an ARM NAS that runs Debian, and it is currently serving files via
NFS to some machines of mine.

Unfortunately, my wife has to professionally use Windows and, as the NAS
only has 128MB, I would like to cut back both the number of programs and the
memory footprint of them.


Your mileage may vary, but I have a 128Mb-RAM arm NAS, and I run the
standard samba just fine. Along with sshd, transmission-daemon,
vsftpd, dnsmasq and probably some other things I'm forgetting, less
than 60Mb is in use by the system.

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Compiling samba (almost) minimally for a NAS
 

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:34:23 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:

> I have an ARM NAS that runs Debian, and it is currently serving files
> via NFS to some machines of mine.

(...)

> Is there anybody that has attempted to create such a smaller package? If
> yes, which options did you disable? And which build-dependencies did you
> strip from the package to get it as small as possible?

Mmm, maybe Debian Samba packagers can give you some good hints:

http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSambaGroup

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:34:23 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
>
>> I have an ARM NAS that runs Debian, and it is currently serving files
>> via NFS to some machines of mine.
>>
>> Is there anybody that has attempted to create such a smaller package? If
>> yes, which options did you disable? And which build-dependencies did you
>> strip from the package to get it as small as possible?
>
> Mmm, maybe Debian Samba packagers can give you some good hints:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianSambaGroup

Or the debian-arm list.


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