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Samba

5 posts
Mar 2024 – Nov 2025

Using systemd to keep an SMB share mounted

It's possible to use systemd to keep a SMB share mounted and retry it after the mount fails. This template-based approach scales relatively easily to multiple mounts. Create the retry service template In /etc/systemd/system/mount-retry@.service: [Unit] Description=Retry mounting %i After=network-online.target Wants=network-online. …

Using systemd to run a Docker container only when an SMB mount is mounted

I have a Linux machine that mounts several shares from my NAS via Samba. I'd like it to run fscrawler in a Docker container for each of those shares, but only when the shares are working properly — if the share goes away while fscrawler is running, fscrawler will …

Setting Up & Testing Spotlight + Samba + Elasticsearch

It's possible for Samba to use Elasticsearch to allow macOS Spotlight to use server-side searching on SMB shares. It's annoying to set up and debug, but/and this blog post aims to document everything I've learned. Versions It's critical to understand that …

Keeping a SMB share mounted on macOS (version 2)

A more robust version of my original persistent-SMB-mount maintenance script.

Keeping a SMB share mounted on macOS (and alerting when it does down)

Instructions on keeping an SMB share mounted persistently on macOS with launchd, featuring monitoring via Uptime Kuma and runner.