HOW TO: VirtualBox Alpine Linux + rclone + samba share

[ajkis]

Download & Install Virtualbox host: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Download Alpine Linux Standard: https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/

Open Virtualbox and create new virtual machine:

Type: Linux
Version: Other Linux (64 bit)
Base Memory ( 1024MB + i would recomment at least 2048 )
Storage: 1GB dynamically allocated ( after rclone+samba etc it would still be bellow 500MB)
Storage Optical: Connect alpine ISO image.
Network: Bridged Adapter ( so you can assign your own static IP )
Disable Audio, Serial ports

Boot created virtual machine and once in terminal mode setup your hostname, ip, dns by typing::
setup-hostname
setup-interfaces
setup-dns
After restart network:
/etc/init.d/networking restart

Setup the Alpine Linux on your HDD
setup-alpine

Update Alpine:
apk update
apk upgrade

Install fuse
apk add fuse

Optional
apk add unionfs-fuse

Install Samba
apk add samba samba-common-tools

Before setting up rclone install certificates

mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs/
curl -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt
ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org

Setup rclone and mount folders

Share rclone mount in samba by adding special samba user and creating smb.conf

Create new user:
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login mysambauser
smbpasswd -a mysambauser

Create config
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   dos charset = cp850
   unix charset = ISO-8859-1

[cloud]
  comment = TV backup
  path = /path to rclone mount /
  browsable = yes
  writable = yes
  read only = no
  guest ok = no
  write list = mysambauser
  read list = mysambauser
  valid users = mysambauser

Add samba to run at startup
rc-update add samba
Start samba;
rc-service samba start

You may consider adding your rclone mount script to boot in local.d so add it to boot by:
rc-update add local default

Now you can make new rclone mount script in
vi /etc/local.d/rclonemount.start

#!/bin/bash
rclone mount
--read-only
--allow-non-empty
--allow-other
--max-read-ahead 14G
--acd-templink-threshold 0
--checkers 16
--quiet
--stats 0
rcloneremote:/ /path to mount/ &
exit

vi /etc/local.d/rclonemount.stop

#!/bin/bash
fusermount -uz /path to mount/
exit

You can read more about local.d : cat /etc/local.d/README

Optionally you can enable SSH and run virtualbox in headless mode

To enable SSH
vi  /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Set : PermitRootLogin yes
restart SSH
/etc/init.d/sshd restart �

To start your virtalmachine in headless mode, create new batch file with content bellow:

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm "alpine" --type "headless"
exit

To stop or better yet stop and save last state you can make batch:

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" controlvm "alpine" savestate
exit

Once your virtalbox machine is running you can access it by typing in windows explorer:
\THE IP\NameOfShare ( in our case cloud )
use username and password you set for samba.

[Powerbless]

thank you for your tutorial! But i can only read the mount in windows. in linux i can create folders and files but when i connect to the smb trough windows then i can only read. have you any idea?

[ajkis]

What kind of error do you get ?
Maybe enable fuse debugging on rclone mount and check in logs.

[Powerbless]

i have another problem.

i have installed your linux etc...but wenn i will rclone config, i can not copy the secure_token in the vm. the copy stops at the half and abort

he say:
unexpected end of JSON input

[ajkis]

You did not copy paste file correctly a part of it its missing.
I suggest you SFTP it to your VM.

[Powerbless]

how can i do that? i have often used SFTP programs but not to send to a vm. can you give me a tipp?

[ajkis]

Well your VM have an IP just SSH to it dont use the VM terminal directly.

[Powerbless]

when i try to connect with putty he say i musst login. i type user "root" and the pw "root" but...access denied.

the login trough the vm with root and root works fine

[ajkis]

Is Pass auth enabled in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

p.s. You could word wrap your rclone config so you make sure its copy pasted correctly.

[Powerbless]

yes i have enabled how you have write this in your tutorial above. i deleted the # and the passwd*** and type "yes" behind PermitRootLogin
edit: login with SSH now works! i had an empty password. now with password it works

what do you mean with wordwrap?

[Powerbless]

now, i have rclone conigured! Thx :-)

that mean when i connect in windows to \\pcname\cloud

then he ask me for user and password. but there not correct. how can i now create a new user or change the old?

[Powerbless]

update: now i can access from windows to the smb share!

now the problem:
i see all the files on ACD but i have no write permissions. i have only read permissions...bevore i mount the folder trough rclone (/media/ACD" i can create folders and files trough the share...but with rcloune mounted i have only write permissions

edit: i have it! i have added in smb.conf:
force user = root

[Powerbless]

when i type:
rc-update add local default
he says:

• rc-update: local already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping

and autostart does not work

[Powerbless]

how can i run "modprobe fuse" on startup?

[gnolascord]

i try to install rclone but gets following error:
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 959