Vagrant Windows: Create vagrant user on host to access smb shares

vagrant_smb_credentials_windows.adoc

Vagrant Windows: Create vagrant user on host to access smb shares

Create user vagrant

Powershell as Administrator

# Create user vagrant with password vagrant
$username = "vagrant"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "vagrant" -AsPlainText -Force

# Disable password complexity policy
secedit /export /cfg C:\secpol.cfg
(gc C:\secpol.cfg) -replace "PasswordComplexity = 1", "PasswordComplexity = 0" | Out-File C:\secpol.cfg
secedit /configure /db secedit.sdb /cfg C:\secpol.cfg /areas SECURITYPOLICY

New-LocalUser -Name $username -Password $password -FullName "Vagrant User" -Description "User for Vagrant" -PasswordNeverExpires
Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member $username

# Re-enable password complexity policy
(gc C:\secpol.cfg) -replace "PasswordComplexity = 0", "PasswordComplexity = 1" | Out-File C:\secpol.cfg
secedit /configure /db secedit.sdb /cfg C:\secpol.cfg /areas SECURITYPOLICY
Remove-Item C:\secpol.cfg

Vagrantfile config

## Set synced_folder with credentils inside Vagrantfile
    config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "smb",
        smb_password: "vagrant", smb_username: "vagrant"

vagrant up

Your vagrant up logs should show something like

=⇒ default: Preparing SMB shared folders…​

Vagrant requires administrator access to create SMB shares and
may request access to complete setup of configured shares.
=> default: Setting hostname...

Note	This will mount your project folder to c:\vagrant. Depending on your config this folder is only accassible for the vagrant user not the Administrator.