Add smbclient (60MB)

[hemsleyk]

Not having SMB support in the image triggers a warning when viewing external storage options. SMB support is very important for on-prem deployments where the files are backed by a Windows server. The base image should really have this owncloud feature. Only applied change to 9.1.

[yosifkit]

Is this worth the additional space for all users or would it be better to document a simple Dockerfile?

FROM owncloud:9
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y smbclient && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

[pierreozoux]

I like the document part.

[danielgusmao]

Please put one line to install SMBClient

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y
bzip2
libcurl4-openssl-dev
libfreetype6-dev
libicu-dev
libjpeg-dev
libldap2-dev
libmcrypt-dev
libmemcached-dev
libpng12-dev
libpq-dev
libxml2-dev
smbclient
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

[pierreozoux]

Obviously, there is the same request for Nextcloud image.

@yosifkit would it make sense to create yet another tag, say -heavy or -all that ship with:

• smb
• imap

and maybe other optional dependencies?

We could actually reduce the size of the base image by moving redis, memcached and pg support to this heavy tag.

[yosifkit]

I think that adding another tag for heavy would just be extra maintenance burden for little gain. We can't provide a Docker image that works for every use case, but we can create a general purpose image that can be easily extended to fit the specific needs of the situation.

As for the specifics on this PR, I would rather not add ~60 MB of packages when I think it would be better to mount the remote files system on the host; that way multiple services could use different parts of the remote storage and you won't need to install smbclient in each of them.

[hemsleyk]

My issue was that Owncloud / Nextcloud touted app-native SMB mounting pretty heavily in the marketing (e.g. Windows home folders feature, AD integration).

[ghost]

having the same issue here
I tried install smb with
docker exec -it "Container ID" apt-get update && apt-get install -y smbclient && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
but going back to the web ui it shows that smbclient is still not installed?

[barnabasbusa]

Any update on this? I'm desperate to get this docker image working on my unraid server. It would be great if I could just add an existing share to ownCloud using SMB.

[rubo77]

@danielgusmao :

When I try your command in nextcloud apache docker those packages are not existing:

Package libpng12-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
E: Unable to locate package lbfreetype6-dev

[rubo77]

You can install smbclient via an extra file in your docker-compose folder. see:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47907859/1069083

[yosifkit]

Closing old issue