There's various things I did wrong in the first setup, but that's okay
since I was just copying from the wiki to understand how to get things
started. I could never get smbclient to connect to any of these shares
for any users.
Rather, I'm using this minimalist configuration from the samba project
itself, and I can connect to it, so long as the directory is created and
belongs to the correct group. Which it does now.
Hat tip to https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-configuration-for-samba/17079
for the guidance.
Within my home networks home.arpa resolves to DNS for the home domain.
From there the pihole service will provide DNS for all the connected
clients and custom service names.
Includes a few basics like my user, docker, network management, my suit
of CLI tools, and my attempts to get unifi-controller working.
That was essentially a failure, so unifi is mostly disabled.
Eli Ribble