Lumix to Linux

[sawyl]

Finally worked out how to get my camera — a Lumix G-series — to dump its contents directly to a network drive — Samba running on a Raspberry PI — rather than copying the contents of the SD card directly. I'm not sure it's any easier or quicker, but here are the steps for posterity:

1. Fire up the Raspberry PI
2. Install samba
3. Install samba-common-bin
4. Create a new user, e.g. lumix
5. Set a password with smbpasswd
6. Create an upload directory for the lumix
7. Update /etc/samba/smb.conf to add the upload directory and set the correct permissions
8. Connect the camera to the wifi point and authenticate
9. Select the drive share and authenticate
10. Select the correct media type when prompted
11. Select the images to transfer
12. Wait...

It's worth noting that if you select an invalid media type — e.g. jpeg when you only ever shoot in raw format — the camera still prompts you to select images for transfer but returns an unhelpful message that implies that there is insufficient space on the remote file store...