Getting start with NanoPi-M1 PART-II

SETTING WiFi ON NanoPi-M1

• I'm using EDUP Nano 802.11N model EP-N8508GS which works well on my Raspberry Pi and hopefully it should support NanoPi-M1 as well.
• Without power down NanoPi, just plug-in the dongle and list the USB device,

lsusb

• Great! I got the return

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter

• Trying to check network configuration using a simple command

ifconfig

• But unfortunately got an error in return...

-bash: ifconfig: command not found

• Hmmm.... whats'up! something differ from Pi!!!
• Let's try again with root privilege,

sudo ifconfig

[sudo] password for fa: (enter root password)

• Success!!! I got the network configuration!
• Next, open the network configuration file. 

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

• Add the following lines, 

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 

inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.confiface 

default inet dhcp

• Now open file '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' but there's nothing so a new file will be created, append the following lines,

network={ ssid="xxxxx"psk="12345678"key_mgmt=WPA-PSK}

• Save and Exit and try to enable the interface...
  
  

  ifdown wlan0
  ifup wlan0

• Wow! it's work!!!

SHARING FOLDER WITH WINDOWS MACHINE

• I want to open image/video/audio, edit python program using Windows machine, so sharing files from myNano to PC is a great idea.
• Now let's install and configure 'SAMBA' (for more details read here and here):

• sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin

• After installation, configure the software by opening the file '/etc/samba/smb.conf' using the command:

  sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

  Read through the file and make sure you have the following parameters set:

  workgroup = WORKGROUP
  wins support = yes

  You can use anything as your workgroup name as long as it is alphanumerical and matches the workgroup you would like to join. The default workgroup in Windows 7 is WORKGROUP.

  Setup folder to share

  Next step is to create the folder to be shared. To create a folder called “share” in home directory do the following:

  sudo mkdir -m 1777 home/share

  With the folder created we can now tell the Samba software to share it on the network. Open the file '/etc/samba/smb.conf' using the command:

  sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

  Scroll to the bottom and add the following:

  [data]
   comment= myNanoPi Share
   path=/home/share
   browseable=Yes
   writeable=Yes
   only guest=no
   create mask=0777
   directory mask=0777
   public=no

  Notice how we tell Samba that public access is not allowed via “public=no” this means that anyone wanting to access the shared folder must login with a valid user.
  In this case the valid user is the user called “fa”. To let Samba know that “fa” is a network user run the command:

  sudo smbpasswd -a fa

• If you do not want to deal with logging in you can always make the share publicly available by changing the config file to say:

  public=yes