[New Addon] Samba NAS. (Mount external disk and share it )

shenanigan · November 10, 2021, 7:32pm

Just updated Home Assistant to version 2021.11.2 and coincidently now it works

Paras_Chavan · December 15, 2021, 4:54pm

Hey I am pretty dumb and would like to use this add-on. So I am running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 32 GB SD Card and wanted to use it as a NAS too and I was doing that using samba share but now I am almost out of storage on that SD card. So I want to use a 64 GB usb stick as the NAS storage. Now that’s where I need help, with how to use this add-on like how do I mount the usb, basically I want the instructions.

Thanks

ElMonty · December 16, 2021, 5:42pm

Hi!

I’m having problems with the public/private key. I have generated them but I still get:

Warning: Permanently added ‘[192.168.1.4]:22222’ (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Load key “/root/.ssh/id_rsa”: invalid format
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).

Could you please detail the steps to generate, convert to OpenSSH, format in secrets.yaml, format in CONFIG USB pendrive and sambanas configuration? I have tried severals of combinations but I’m not able to make it work

I have also tried @shenanigan steps converting the private key to OpenSSH format but still no luck.

Please, a step by step guide will be VERY appreciated!!

Thanks!

ElMonty · December 21, 2021, 4:49pm

Could anyone help me with this, please?

Thanks!

LeonardoCT · December 29, 2021, 1:36pm

Hello, how does one config the “medialibrary” option? I don’t know where i’m suppost to get the “ssh_private_key” from

ElMonty · December 30, 2021, 10:26am

Hi @LeonardoCT!

I can help you with that: you can generate the public and private key with puttygen if you are using windows or ssh-keygen if you are a linux user. The private key must be in sambanas configuration and the public key should be used in this addon: [add-on] HassOS SSH port 22222 Configurator - Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io).

That is the theory but I can’t make it work

sullivan · January 16, 2022, 3:23pm

can someone give an example of configuration I am lost, I would like to mount two folders of my nas in the media folder ?

ElMonty · January 18, 2022, 1:50pm

Sorry I can’t give you any solution. I’m stuck with the configuration too. I think a detailed tutorial from someone that has it working would be soooooooooooo useful…

Anyone, please!

sebastian_p · January 22, 2022, 7:56pm

Thank you so much for this addon! Mounted my 6TB external HDD (re-formated from NTFS to EXT4) today, works like a charm.
I use it as backup & data server within my home network and also access the drive via VPN from my phone.

sebastian_p · January 23, 2022, 9:16am

Only thing I noticed is that the disk will never spin down, it’s running 24/7 even without any read/write actions. Is this a general problem with disks mounted under Home Assistant Operating System? I remember that I had some issues back when I had Home Assistant running on an Ubuntu installation too, had to do some tricks to get it to spin down on idle.

Lucio_Tarantino · January 23, 2022, 1:14pm

It does not depend on the addon but on the host system and the HDD case.
There are external HDDs that accept spindown commands others instead of using USB gate suspend.
In the first case the powersave works independently from the Host system (RPi etc) in the second case it depends on the ability of the hw to turn off the unused USB outputs.

sebastian_p · January 28, 2022, 4:16pm

Thanks for your answer, I did some more research on this topic. I found out that this specific external HDD I’m using can be configured with a software tool from Seagate. Apparently the spin-down time on the HDD controller wasn’t set correctly. I set it to 5 minutes and now the drive will spin down correctly after a while. It will however, spin up again every 20 minutes or so, even when I’m not accessing anything. Will try to set the spin-down time a bit higher, because it’s probably not that great for the disc to constantly start and stop again. I still don’t know what keeps triggering the drive, it’s really strange. I’m running an Intel NUC with Home Assistant OS by the way.

KaherdinTristan · February 2, 2022, 8:14pm

Quick question;
I’m running an RPi4, with HA supervised. I have an SSD as boot drive and storage for this. Running super well.

If i connect another SSD, with the intent to share it, using this add-on, will that work?
And, should i uninstall the standard samba add-on before installing this one?

Peace

KaherdinTristan · February 6, 2022, 2:28pm

Hi
I want to mount the external SSD, and share it through Samba NAS.
Additionally I want to run Plex as Addon on my Home Assistant OS (running on a RPi4).

ID_FS_LABEL: SmallBlack
DEVNAME: /dev/sdb2

How should I do this? The instructions are not super clear on this point…

ElMonty · March 6, 2022, 11:30am

Hi again!

I have tried another approach without using putty. I have generated the public and private key using SSH & Web Terminal addon with the command “ssh-keygen -t rsa”. This generates /root/.ssh/id_rsa and /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

I have copied the id_rsa.pub that looks like this:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQCj89P88Edk9XJi72Ux2Cmia6C3y/hxi8F6TwZeUTiLNrfcysan4iqFZgUp ... HIDDEN ... 26MiobxZQL/AxcMg3M= root@a0d7b954-ssh

and pasted in “HassOS SSH port 22222 Configurator” configuration so it generated an authorized_keys file.

After that I came back to “SSH & Web Terminal” and could ssh in port 22222:

➜  ~ ssh 127.0.0.1 -p22222
Welcome to Home Assistant OS.

Use `ha` to access the Home Assistant CLI.
#

So I guess the port 22222 is accesible.

Finally, I copied the private key from the id_rsa file that looks like this:

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAABlwAAAAdzc2gtcn
NhAAAAAwEAAQAAAYEAo/PT/PBHZPVyYu9lMdgpomugt8v4cYvBek8GXlE4iza33MrGp+Iq
hWYFKT8NKKiAjP ... HIDDEN ... rEzoyklmWoyX+jofMyGKIcY
b9scdE0FZKEI401o68YqYvbf2wELOw9QAcYtNlG/Wx0RLebB5mUmRsSEnnNJgzpqY0t5Cs
sXsUk1Vyeh4YkAAAARcm9vdEBhMGQ3Yjk1NC1zc2gBAg==
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

Pasted it in Samba NAS configuration so it look like this:

workgroup: REDCASA
username: !secret SambaUser
password: !secret SambaPass
allow_hosts:
  - 10.0.0.0/8
  - 172.16.0.0/12
  - 192.168.0.0/16
  - fe80::/10
moredisks:
  - Biblioteca
available_disks_log: true
medialibrary:
  enable: true
  ssh_private_key: >-
    -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
    b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAABlwAAAAdzc2gtcn
    NhAAAAAwEAAQAAAYEAo/PT/PBHZPVyYu9lMdgpomugt8v4cYvBek8GXlE4iza33MrGp+Iq
    hWYFKT8NKKiAjP ... HIDDEN ... rEzoyklmWoyX+jofMyGKIcY
    b9scdE0FZKEI401o68YqYvbf2wELOw9QAcYtNlG/Wx0RLebB5mUmRsSEnnNJgzpqY0t5Cs
    sXsUk1Vyeh4YkAAAARcm9vdEBhMGQ3Yjk1NC1zc2gBAg== -----END OPENSSH PRIVATE
    KEY-----
veto_files:
  - ._*
  - .DS_Store
  - Thumbs.db
  - icon?
  - .Trashes
compatibility_mode: false
autodiscovery: {}
mqtt_enable: true

And it fails :

[s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
[s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
[fix-attrs.d] done.
[cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
[cont-init.d] 0.banner.sh: executing... 
---------------------------------------------------
 ____                  _           _   _           
/ ___|  __ _ _ __ ___ | |__   __ _| \ | | __ _ ___ 
\___ \ / _` | '_ ` _ \| '_ \ / _` |  \| |/ _` / __|
 ___) | (_| | | | | | | |_) | (_| | |\  | (_| \__ \
|____/ \__,_|_| |_| |_|_.__/ \__,_|_| \_|\__,_|___/
                                                   
                              Version 9.5.1-nas4
---------------------------------------------------
[cont-init.d] 0.banner.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] automount.sh: executing... 
[12:21:19] INFO: Protection Mode is false
[12:21:20] INFO: MoreDisk option found!
[12:21:20] INFO: MediaLibrary option found!
Warning: Permanently added '[192.168.1.4]:22222' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
Load key "/root/.ssh/id_rsa": invalid format
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
[cont-init.d] automount.sh: exited 255.
[cont-finish.d] executing container finish scripts...
[cont-finish.d] mqtt.sh: executing... 
[12:21:21] INFO: MQTT cleanup.
s6-maximumtime: warning: unable to wait for child process: Operation timed out
[cont-finish.d] mqtt.sh: exited 99.
[cont-finish.d] umount.sh: executing... 
[12:21:26] INFO: Done.
[cont-finish.d] umount.sh: exited 0.
[cont-finish.d] done.
[s6-finish] waiting for services.
[s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal.
[s6-finish] sending all processes the KILL signal and exiting.

The error says that tie id_rsa file has an invalid format… how can I generate the appropiate format with the ssh-keygen command??

Please help, I think I have almost got it!

Thank you in advance

Lucio_Tarantino · March 6, 2022, 12:08pm

You need to maintain the same format of private key. Maintain also the cr/lf , begin and end headers need to be in a line alone.
No empty lines. Just copy and paste the private key content as is.

ElMonty · March 6, 2022, 2:34pm

I paste it like this:

  ssh_private_key: >-
    -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
    b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAABlwAAAAdzc2gtcn
    NhAAAAAwEAAQAAAYEAo/PT/PBHZPVyYu9lMdgpomugt8v4cYvBek8GXlE4iza33MrGp+Iq
    hWYFKT8NKK... HIDDEN... mWoyX+jofMyGKIcY
    b9scdE0FZKEI401o68YqYvbf2wELOw9QAcYtNlG/Wx0RLebB5mUmRsSEnnNJgzpqY0t5Cs
    sXsUk1Vyeh4YkAAAARcm9vdEBhMGQ3Yjk1NC1zc2gBAg==
    -----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
veto_files:
...

But when I save the configuration it changes to this:

  ssh_private_key: >-
    -----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
    b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAABlwAAAAdzc2gtcn
    NhAAAAAwEAAQAAAYEAo/PT/PBHZPVyYu9lMdgpomugt8v4cYvBek8GXlE4iza33MrGp+Iq
    hWYFKT8N... HIDDEN... SLaCyko9KmgKFxbwvCgESJru
    7ROIL/3wVIBCtBqMH5zRTR4wQmNmRoDhf2fh7AaCUnacm0/rEzoyklmWoyX+jofMyGKIcY
    b9scdE0FZKEI401o68YqYvbf2wELOw9QAcYtNlG/Wx0RLebB5mUmRsSEnnNJgzpqY0t5Cs
    sXsUk1Vyeh4YkAAAARcm9vdEBhMGQ3Yjk1NC1zc2gBAg== -----END OPENSSH PRIVATE
    KEY-----
veto_files:
...

Should I put some quotes or something?? Only if I leave a blank line between the end of the key and the -----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY----- it stays in a line alone but, of course, it doesn’t work this way

Lucio_Tarantino · March 6, 2022, 9:56pm

Don’t use > for yaml blob use |.

ssh_private_key: |
    -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

ElMonty · March 7, 2022, 8:51am

YES!!!

It worked finally!!! Thank you so much!

Vijay_Naru · March 20, 2022, 8:52am

[cont-init.d] 0.banner.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] automount.sh: executing…
[14:19:19] INFO: Protection Mode is false
[14:19:19] INFO: MoreDisk option found!
[14:19:19] INFO: MediaLibrary disabled in config. Disk are mounted only for this addon!
[14:19:19] INFO: Available Disk Labels:
pen2gb
[14:19:19] INFO: More Disks mounting… pen2gb
[14:19:19] INFO: Mount pen2gb
[14:19:20] INFO: Success!
[cont-init.d] automount.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] mqtt.sh: executing…
[cont-init.d] mqtt.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] samba.sh: executing…

above is the log…
also got a new folder in media section as “pen2gb”
my pen drive is formatted in ntfs

pls help