I had ~60GB going spare on my #RaspberryPi so figured I may as well make the most of it and set up #Samba for file sharing across my LAN. I'm allowing access only from mine and my partner's IPs (which are bound to our MACs) but I'm concerned the share isn't encrypted, so anyone could just walk up to the Pi and take out the SD. Any suggestions for securing shares?
@syntax
Also keep in mind that SDcards are a very poor choice for data storage, especially if there are frequent writes. I guess for Read-Only access it would be fine.
I use large capacity SDcards for just the OS and the data it needs to operate. Because of the large capacity, it won't have to overwrite blocks that often and thus won't wear down the SD card too soon.
@FreePietje
Yeah I know SDs aren't ideal. However, it won't be used much at all, so I don't think it would degrade much, at least not for a long time. I have a spare 1TB HDD which I could use for storage, but feel like that's maybe overkill as 95% would probably go unused.
@syntax
It also depends on the quality of the SD card. But in any case, make sure that the data you put on there, is also stored/backed up on another (non-SD-card) device as it can break at any moment. And you're not getting f.e. SMART errors/warnings that can prepare you for disaster.
@FreePietje
Yeah, this would just be used for easier sharing rather than proper backups. I have my own system for backups: Rclone encrypted backups to an offsite VPS and Rsync to Veracrypt containers for an SSD and SD used only for backups.
