Hello Haioken and Flox - and anyone else who might be reading this!
Thought I’d share my progress so far…
I’ve managed to get smbclient installed as per the instructions.
The biggest issue was configuring the external storage settings especially users and groups.
For anyone else trying this it’s worthwhile setting up some dummy data and a test share in Rockstor first.
Pay particular attention to not loging in with Ownclud credentials if you want to use the OwnCloud sharing facility.
Apart from that it all looks good.
I can use my samba share straight off my windows machine fine and I can set up and share files in owncloud.
One question - it seems that if you delete a file from samba derived owncloud folder the delete action is not carried through to the actual rockstor file am I right in this assumption?
All I need to do now is get my head round VPN and I’m good to go!
Many thanks again
Paul