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.
Now I not only find the printer, but I can correctly send data to it, so
long as it's data the printer can consume like and image and not a raw
pdf. I got an error on my first attempt to print a pdf until I opened
GIMP and imported it that way.
This is cobbled together from several different forum posts and is
likely suboptimal. The avahi support made the system auto-discover the
printer, but it wasn't able to send data to the printer successfully.
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