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Executing a query on a remote sqlite database via JCIFS

For an Android project of mine I have to access an SQLite Database somewhere on a shared Windows Workgroup. Other (desktop) applications also make use of this database. Now I managed to access this ...
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Opening a Samba Server file using Mono C# in Mac OS X

We are using Mono C# to write a service (running in Mac environment) which will read a particular XML file and open the file from the path mentioned in the XML file. The file path can be a local one ...
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Check if symbolic link on Samba share with python

Can I know with Python from Windows if some files that I have access to on a Samba share are "real" files or symbolic links ? I tried os.path.islink but it returns false as the documentation states: ...
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samba library failed to download the shared files of Mac osx

I have tried to download the shared files of mac osx using smb from my ipad but it fails with error( unable to open the file). But it can download all windows and linux shared files.
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how to disable caching in CIFS (samba) on client side in linux

have developed an application to run on a target with 2.6.10 kernel. A shared folder on a windows machine is mounted via command: mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,forcedirectio ...
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Creating directory Structure in a UNC path with java

I'm trying to Create a directory structure with java, in a remote UNC location. java is running in a linux machine and the windows network path is mapped with SAMBA server. Issue is : When creating ...
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How to use the dcerpc library implement by samba?

Now I have a task to write rpc server and client by the dcerpc library implement by samba. I wanted to get some info from samba.org and the source in past 4 days. Unfortunately i get nothing useful to ...
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Symbolic links on Samba share

I have a Samba share. Is there any way to determine form Windows side is a specific folder a symlink or standard directory?
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How to get workgroup name in Samba?

Given IP or host name, is there a way to get workgroup name by libsmbclient API or Samba command in Linux? I already knew that how to browse workgroups, servers and shares by libsmbclient API. ...
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Copying file from a Samba drive to an Android sdcard directory

I am new to Android and Samba. I am trying to use the JCIFS copy. To method to copy a file from a Samba directory to the 'Download' directory under sdcard on an Android 3.1 device. Following is my ...
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What guarantees are given by SMB and EXT3 regarding order of file writes?

From my (Linux-)application, I am watching a hotfolder for specific sets of files. For example, I am waiting for this set: example-1.xml example-2.xml example-3.xml The hotfolder is shared over ...
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Is there a built-in way to remap illegal characters in Samba when sharing with Windows?

I have a samba share set up in ubuntu. Many of the folders and filenames contain : which is an illegal character in Windows. Samba's default action when dealing with illegal characters is to mangle ...
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Cygwin ::stat() giving 'No such file or directory' for samba mounted cygdrive

I have some code calling ::stat() on a pathname which works fine on Centos, but on Cygwin, it fails when the supplied pathname is a directory on a samba mounted drive: struct stat info; int result1 ...
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ASP.NET ConfigurationErrorsException when serving images via UNC on IIS6

I have a virtual directory in my web app which connects to a Samba share via UNC. I can browse the files via Windows Explorer without issue, but my web app throws a yellow screen with the following ...
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Synch and admin samba users from django?

I want to create and maintain my user database using the default user handling in django, but at the same time synch the samba user profiles so that users can access the django website and the samba ...
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copy file to linux machine via UNC path using python

I need to copy a file from a distributed storage network to my linux machine. I only get the UNC path to the file from a database. There are about 20 servers with more than 30 shares on each server, ...
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How do i connect ubuntu desktop to a NAS using NFS or Samba

I have a Thecus N2200 NAS (Network Attached Storage) that I would like to connect my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop to. I can connect to it with any Windows PC on the LAN with ease. I can ping the NAS from ...
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Did the latest ubuntu update change anything how byte range locks are performed?

I have set up a samba-pdc (3.6.6) on an ubuntu-server with a few windows (win 7 pro) clients. Everything worked as supposed to be until now. We are using a software that uses a shared folder to store ...
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Image storage for a web application

I wish to store considerable amount of images for a web application. The web application will have little writes/uploads but heavy reads. From the reading on the Internet, I have come to believe that ...
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samba web client - setup connection in php script

I have to establish connection with Samba server from my php script in order to download some files into my local server. Actually its first time I have heard of something like Samba so I Tried to ...
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can't mount windows directory using samba client in linux running on custom ARM board

I have a ARM board (custom board) running linux-3.4.0 kernel with ramdisk image (root file system) build with buildroot (http://buildroot.uclibc.org) samba client and dependencies are built for the ...
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register in my network place

I'm working on an open source software that serve like samba, in embedded device. It works quite well by far, but not visible at network neighborhood in a recent test case. It sends broadcast ...
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Transfer files to linux from UNC path in PHP

I have a script that transfers files from one directory to another. I have a Ubuntu VM, and before I just used the UNC path with scandir() in PHP and then used copy() to transfer them and that worked ...
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Excessive Calls made to FUSE FS when accesing through Windows client

I'm going through FUSE example "hello_ll.c" ,whenever i try to access mounted FS the number of calls made are perfectly fine through linux terminal. For example : ...
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Samba connection with java

Hi i have created a test program to connect with samba protocol. My motive is to create a test.txt file on a shared location like String path="smb://192.168.143.134/rtf2xml/"+sharedFolder+"/test.txt"; ...
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How to link a samba file link in twiki?

I've got a server using samba to share files. Suppose the ip address is 1.1.1.1 so we can find the files in this samba server by using \1.1.1.1\ Now i've built a twiki system.I would like to make some ...
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Execute program from samba share

I have a control program of my server. When users click a folder on samba shares I want to execute ".bat" or ".exe". Is this possible ? Thanks in advance Server: Ubuntu 12.04.1
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Cannot connect to Linux Samba Share

I haven't found anything specific enough to the issue, and here's why... So most Samba issues involve not resolving a hostname to Windows computers (ie "\\Computer1" or "\\Computer1\Prons"), or one ...
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SMB Exception 'The parameter is incorrect' when connecting with jcifs to Samba 4

I used jcifs to connect to a samba drive for a long time. Since the samba server got updated and uses Samba 4 now, it fails to connect with the error message The parameter is incorrect. The network ...
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nas / samba + windows 7 + acl

following weird problem, i have a netgear readynas pioneer pro, with a share media. I want this share to be available to absolutely everyone (closed home network), that means to guests, to the satbox, ...
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BIND named DNS with static and dynamic dns in conjunction with Samba 4

I have successfully set up a linux server running Debian 6.06, hosting a Samba4 Active Directory server running in Bind9 file mode (not DLZ). This is a large home network with mixed Windows & ...
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Error while accessing samba share from Internet

I enabled IP Forwarding for Ports 137,138.139 & 445 in router to our SAMBA (Local Network) Server , But I am getting below error while trying to accessing from internet. But if I am click on the ...
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Samba server not working without login

I have 2 linux systems. System 1 is running a sambaserver, system 2 other mounts the sambaserver using smbfs. I've installed samba and libpam-smbpass to sync users. I have everything working as I ...
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Winexe compile error

I'm getting errors compiling winexe. Do any samba experts have any idea what might be wrong here? Basically I'm not sure where these symbols should be resolved. Compiling ...
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GItHub client with remote samba file system

Using GitHub (GUI) client with a remote file system (over samba) causes strange issues. For example fresh clone (1min after cloning) informs all files have been changed. If I run diff it says that ...
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samba standalone authentication active directory

I want to have a standalone Samba server for purposes of having a share that is locally administrated, but use the schools Active Directory for authentication. I also need to map only the students in ...
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compiling samba-shared code fails in qt

I spent the last 2 days trying to make qt on windows 7 compile a samba-shared project hosted on a linux machine (which is visible on win7 as volume Z). The problem is that after the first ...
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SAMBA/SMB folder share : works on Windows 7 but not on Windows XP

I have a problem with Samba/SMB share. My folders are shared on a RedHat Linux 8.0 machine, and we access them on Windows. Problem : It works on Windows 7 PCs : but not on Windows XP ! Has anybody ...
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Mountain Lion SMB server breaks when folder has DOS 'Readonly' Attribute set by clients

I have a mountain lion server running their new 'SMBX' samba server. If a client creates a directory and sets the dos "R" readonly attribute (by attrib +R <dirname>), it sets the uchg flag on ...
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could not able to identify netbios name in samba?

I have configured samba on my RHEL6 machine. I could able to access the samba share using hostname/ip address, but not able to access through netbios name. Following is the error message i got: # ...
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wcf publish on remote server

I have a question about wcf Publishing on remote server. I published my wcf project and add the crossdomain and clientpolicy to the publish folder and i can access my services too but when I run my ...
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Samba through AD not working

I'm trying to get a samba to work with a windows AD. And i can't use my shares through samba. My smb.conf #GLOBAL PARAMETERS [global] workgroup = MY_DOMAIN realm = MY_DOMAIN.COM preferred ...
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Struggling to configure usable dev environment w/ VirtualBox

Previously I've been doing development w/ NetBeans which SFTPed files to a remote dev server. My projects are too large to keep doing this... SFTP is too slow. I decided to switch to a local VM for ...
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smbldap groups doesn't exist but present on getenv

I'm currently using Samba and Ldap on a centos server to share some group folders across several users. The groups and users have been previously created on a different server and then migrate to the ...
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Connect samba server with string domain name

I was wondering if I could connect samba with string domain, not IP, like \\example.com Currently I can successfully connect to server with IP by typing \\(IP address) and public domain server ...
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Samba, LDAP and Active Directory

I am currently using Samba and LDAP to allow Windows users to login to a Unix machine. However, I would like to switch over to using Active Directory instead for user authentication. I notice that in ...
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Samba reports disk full incorrectly

I have a Ubuntu box running a Samba file server. Between my computer and the server, I can copy files, view available space, etc. I set up a link to the server on another user's computer, but for some ...
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Is netapi32.dll exclusively for Windows platforms?

When I tried NetServerEnum function for finding out available servers on the network, to my surprise it only listed servers running on windows platform family. Specifically it listed servers having ...
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Client disconnection and automatically releasing its resources in SMB server

Here is the Scenario. I have a Server running with several files in it shared over network by SMB protocol on top of TCP protocol. My problem is, when client opens a file using CreateFile API with ...
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libsmbclient MacOS X escape \r

After mounting MacOS X 10.6 share via cifs: mount -t cifs '//AAA/BBB' -o 'username=CCC,password=DDD' mpoint I can stat file stat mpoint/Post-Installation/Icon^M File: ...

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