Recommended image for serving files on LAN

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@j0nnymoe thanks for the detailed explanation. I can accept that.

Just for the record, I like to pass in the users and keep it in a config file like this:

  samba:
    image: dperson/samba
    container_name: samba
    command: -u "blomerus;${ADMIN_PASSWORD}" -s "media;/share;yes;no;no;blomerus" -s "public;/public;yes;no;yes"
    volumes:
      - ${DATA_DIR}:/share
      - ${DATA_DIR}/public:/public
    environment:
      - TZ=Africa/Johannesburg
      - WORKGROUP=blomerus
      - USERID=1000
      - GROUPID=1000
    ports:
      - 139:139
      - 445:445
    restart: unless-stopped

This is much more portable from server to server than having to create users on each server, and it is under version control so I only had to know how to set it up at one point in time.

Maybe I just needed the correct tag to get the image to start on the Pi. Or maybe my error was unrelated to being on a different platform. I will give it another try.

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