A free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, which provides Windows file and print services. Use this tag when your question involves Samba shares, mounts, or printers.
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samba4 share over Windows PE PXE environment
Windows 10 PE over a PXE server running windows pxeboot.com as it's preloader.
Everything boots fine, i get a command prompt and i do:
net use z: \\<ip>\<share> <passwd> /u:<user&...
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SAMBA/CIFS connection error
I have been getting errors connecting to samba/cifs shares from like 3 weeks ago, I have 4 machines, one with Windows, 2 with Fedora 24 and one with Fedora 22. I have shares on the two fedora 24 ...
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IP list adress separator in smb.conf
How can I find the list separator in samba file. I browsed the Internet but could not find a definitive explanation of what is the exact separator of the lists.
# /etc/samba/smb.conf
[My_share]
(...)...
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How to mount a samba share directory without password?
There is a share directory behind samba, and I add samba user test with the command smbpasswd -a -n test to make no password for user test.
But when I need to access the shared directory from another ...
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How to list QNAP virtual machines from an SSH command line?
This is partly a straight question and partly an attempt to gain more understanding about how QNAP network servers work.
My office uses a local network drive installed with (according to /proc/...
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Weird samba issue
I have a samba server and a Mac OS client.
# smbd --version
Version 3.5.10-125.el6
I use Finder to connect to the samba drive. Now I have a weird download speed issue.
When I first started the ...
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automatic create directory “git-shell-commands” in home directory when login to git-shell
I want to create directory "git-shell-commands" in home directory when login to git-shell
I need to user in Active Directory to use git-shell.
Now AD user can login to FreeBSD (Samba 4.4 + winbindd +...
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How can I find the domain of a samba server?
How can I determine the domain of a remote samba server from the command line?
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Prompt Windows AD user to reset password upon login to Linux
I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM which has been integrated with Windows AD using Kerberos and Winbind. It all works, bar one feature. In AD, I can reset the users password and select the option '...
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Create fstab entry with 777 permissions and no auto mount
I don't quite understand how fstab works but I'm having permission issues with a Windows Samba share that I am trying to mount.
normally I mount it using the following
mount -t cifs -o username=...
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Linux mount Windows samba share for all users
I'm mounting a Windows Samba share on my Linux machine (SUSE 11) using the following.
mount -t cifs -o username=myname,password=12345 //10.10.0.78/smb /share/smb
It works fine except it has the ...
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Full access to the files on my Samba share
I download files with my Nas Server with Debian on it to a path. this path is also shared with SMB to a Windows PC. Now when I try to delete some files on my Nas from Windows I get permission errors.
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Share (/mirror) entire contents of one Ubuntu server onto another
I am trying to mirror everything from our group's main Ubuntu server to another Ubuntu server so as to use it for extra processing power. I have created a samba share of '/' and have mounted it under /...
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Samba server becomes slow after a while
I have a samba server (running on a pine64) talking (via router via eithernet) to an android TV box. I also have a laptop on wifi.
Most of the time this setup works fine, but every now and then I get ...
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Are Package Aware Windows printer drivers taken into account in Samba printing queues?
After the publication of the KB3170005 by Microsoft, the printer drivers may not be deployed by Click'n'Point as described in the Samba Wiki page about configuring print'n'point anymore. Indeed, the ...
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Chown permission denied on samba share
I have a linux device with samba and it shares a drive inside the network and allow to everyone to write, read etc
I have another linux device which mount the samba shared drive and I would execute, ...
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samba, active directory install
I want to configure Samba to work with my Window client (run by Qemu).
So I'm reading this tutorial https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO. And I have a lot of questions regarding the ...
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Why samba can not grant access on some directories?
I have a server with samba installed. I need to share some directories under the /var/spool path. But I faced with strange trouble: I can not get access to /var/spool with samba.
There is /etc/smb....
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Sharing / root Linux directory with Samba, CentOS 7
I'm using CentOS 7!
I want to know if is possible share root "\" Linux Directory.
In root mode:
# kwrite /etc/samba/smb.conf
Here the line contents
[global]
workgroup = MyGroup
server string =...
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Samba, SePrintOperatorPrivilege based on windows group (local Workgroup)
is there a way with samba to make the windows members of a group (let's say: Wadmin) to manage/add/delete drivers with the windows wizard ?
i manage to map a unix group: Uadmin (with ...
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WebDAV server with PAM auth and system file permissions?
Basically, what I'm looking for is Samba - except that I want it to be WebDAV in the front. The requirements are that the users can log in to the WebDAV dir with their system account, and files will ...
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Serving print driver through samba
I have successfully setup a printer with Samba
[myprinter]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
printer name = My Printer
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Dd wrt repeater bridge file transfer issues
I have a Samba server running on a raspbery pi that has been set up for about a week and hadn't noticed any issues aside from slow transfer speeds (700KB/s - 2MB/s). The pi is using a edimax 7811? ...
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Very poor SMB3 (and SMB2) performance between Linux SMB client and Samba 4 Server
I work in a mainly Windows client environment, but we use Samba 4.3.10 as the file server (on RHEL 6.x). Windows 10 clients are able to negotiate and use SMB3 just fine, and Windows 7 machines are ...
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Using alernative openLDAP UID to authenticate to Active Directory
I'm using Winbind to authenticate users to Active Directory. Everything is working perfectly when the usernames match. The problem is that many of the users have different usernames for Windows and ...
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Samba partially working: can connect but cannot browse
I have a machine I'm using as a HTPC, running Fedora 23. Up until recently, everything was working fine browsing and connecting other PCs on my network (I have a mix of Linux and Windows machines). ...
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How to set Samba Root Directory?
I'm working on a little RPi NAS so I can access my external hard drive plugged into my Raspberry Pi, over the network from another computer (using Samba).
Currently I've got it working, but when I ...
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How to refresh remote file contents
I have a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dev system, which shares some folders via Samba (samba 2:4.3.9+dfsg amd64). I mount such a share on a different Ubuntu system (mount -t cifs -o uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g),domain=...
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How to keep track of password ages using samba?
I am using Fedora 24 and Samba version is 4.4.5. I have configured samba using authentication mode as User. Also, recently I changed samba password using smbpasswd -r domainname -U username this ...
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Cannot write to samba share with certain name
TL;DR: What else (besides file ownership / read only = no in smb.conf) could prevent samba from permitting write access to a share? How does the share name affect the permissions?
So I've got Ubuntu ...
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Export a samba share to a non-domain users
I have samba server configured as domain member. I'd like to export one share to 2 computers in addition to authenticated domain users. How can I do it?
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How do setup a Samba4 share that does not require any user authentication on FreeBSD 10.x?
Since the share is only available on my local network, I would like to setup a share that requires no username/password.
I'm trying to map the share from my Mac Pro. I have no problems mapping the ...
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Permissions in smb4k mounts
I use Smb4K for mounting my shares across my machines. However, something's happened, and when I mount my NAS share on my laptop I can't write to the share unless I sudo to root.
According to top, ...
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GUI Delay On NAS mount With No-Root User
I configured /etc/fstab file to mount a NAS folder
//IpServer/SharePoint /media/TestNas cifs credentials=/root/.smbdcredentials,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0775,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,uid=1000 0 0
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User case for Samba 4.X
I am looking for example of usage of Samba 4 in real offices (and also Offices with 100 or more users, several sites).
I have been browsing the Internet for several days but I cannot find any user ...
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external connections by unused gvfsd-smb?
I have never used samba. And yet, several times recently I noticed my machine ramp up to 100% CPU recently due to gvfsd-smb-browse; doing lsof on the process, I found it had external connections ...
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Is it possible to turn off the AD features of Samba4? If yes, how?
as title. I've searched the net but found nothing useful? I've also looked at this link: man smb.conf
and I honestly don't know what to look for. Nothing obvious stands out.
Thank you
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Allow application to use network shared volume as long as the application knows the volume's address or path
I am porting an application from Windows to Linux (specifically Ubuntu 14.04). The application needs to write data to a network shared volume on a NAS.
On Windows, my application can access the SMB3 ...
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How to change permission only inside the directory?
I think this is a weird question, I don't know if it is possible, but here I go:
I have a shared directory in a server, so people can use it from their computers, so let's say I have a directory call ...
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Samba does not perform reverse mapping for sssd users
I have configured the users through SSSD native AD support. However when I try to access the share it's mapped as "Unix User\username@domain" instead of "domain\username".
My sssd:
[sssd]
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ISO8859-1 characters appear as question marks via Samba
I have a CIFS mount looking like this:
rw,cache=loose,credentials=/etc/x.txt,uid=33,gid=33,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770,nofail
I am trying to rm -r /storage/somedir and it complains about "No such ...
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libtalloc.so missing on AIX (samba install)
1:root@SERVER:/root # ldd /opt/freeware/bin/smbclient
/opt/freeware/bin/smbclient needs:
/opt/freeware/lib/libreadline.a(libreadline.so.5)
/opt/freeware/lib/libiconv.a(libiconv.so.2)
/...
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Why does Quickbooks work with Ubuntu, but not Fedora? [closed]
I have two Samba servers. One is running Ubuntu 14.04 with Samba version 4.3.9-Ubuntu; the other is running Fedora 24 with Samba version 4.4.5.
I'm able to store and use a Quickbooks 2016 company ...
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Apache: how to access files using the requesting user's credentials?
I have a domain-joined (via samba/sssd) CentOS 7 server, acting as a SFTP server, which has a mountpoint mapped to a Windows' share:
SFTP Client -> Linux SFTP Server -> Windows File Server
My goal ...
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preventing brute force attack on samba server [closed]
I have a LAN with many users(clients) in it. Each of them has a private samba share folder.
How can I prevent somebody (within the same network) brute forces another account (so he can access ...
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netbios routing
After a long time, I understood that isn't possible to routing netbios.
My scenario:
server1 192.168.100.212 <--> server2 192.168.100.213 (with 2nics 192.168.100.0/24 and 192.168.30.0/24) - static ...
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how to access samba share from Windows which is running on different port
Ok, as title goes...
I have samba server already running on standard ports(445 and 139). This samba server is integrated in Alfresco application. I need to setup new samba server but now I have ...
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samba how to display files with colon in their names?
Samba does not display files correctly when they contain a colon.
Original file name: test:file.txt
Display name under Windows: T8S6CH~R.TXT
How can I fix it?
Info:
Linux: SLES 11 SP 3
Samba: ...
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Public share using samba
I'm trying to make a simple read only public share using samba. What am I doing wrong? The rest of the samba.config is stock.
[Share]
path = /home/root/share
public = yes
writable = no
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Appending a line to a [section] of a config file
I've noticed that some Linux configuration files (e.g. /etc/samba/smb.conf) expect you to enter the actual settings (key value pairs) in a particular "section" of the file such as [global].
I'm ...
