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Samba and Active Directory limitations

I was wondering if somebody could help me with a question on a networking assignment I have do do with Active Directory and Samba working together (I chose SAMBA). I understand using a Samba domain ...
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Accessing a SMB share without a password

When accessing SMB shared that are password-protected, smbclient works just fine. But when I'm trying to access shared that have no password protection (public shares), smbclient prints: tree ...
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Networking with Linux and Windows 7 using Samba

I've installed Samba on my Arch Linux, and I wanted to share files with Windows 7 on other PC via local network. I want it to work both ways, i.e. Windows can read and write freely without any ...
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Samba share file permissions - users can't open files that I create

I have set up an Ubuntu server (12.04 LTS) for samba file sharing. The problem I'm having has to do with files that I create on the server. Other users can't open them because I created them under a ...
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Cannot Map W7 Drive to Samba Server: Access Denied

I tried to make separate Samba accounts with different permissions, but now I can't login at all. I tried mapping a network drive from windows 7, and it says access denied every time, even though I'm ...
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Unable to access Linux share from a Windows machine with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME error

On the Linux machine I changed the smb.conf like this: [john] path = /root/john/downloads available = yes valid users = john read only = no browsable = yes public = yes writable = yes The path ...
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SMB Mount To Windows Server Appears to Lock up. Any Ideas?

We are running CentOS 6.3 with all the latest updates. (Attempt to resolve this issue) The Server I am trying to connect to is a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Though this applies to our old SBS'03 Box ...
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Program to manipulate Samba shares (net.exe equivalent)

Is there an equivalent to the NET.exe suite for linux systems with which I can do net view queries for example?
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Active Directory Domain with SAMBA or Other Tool

Can I create a domain using SAMBA and set up Active Directory with SAMBA on it? And by this I mean no windows servers involved. I would also like to be able to log in from a Windows machine. ...
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Getting Linux computer integrated with Windows domain

I've tried to figure it out for several months, with no success. I have a Windows 2008R2 domain, and one Linux server (first it was Fedora 15, then 16, and now it's Centos 6.2). I am trying to make it ...
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Getting Samba on suse to work with NTFS drives [closed]

For a server with samba. I've just added (to the server, just shoved it in) an ntfs drive with some stuff and I want to access it through win7 (home edition). After a small struggle I've managed to ...
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How to get list of computers similar to what is shown under “Network” in Windows

In Windows 7 when I click on Network I get a list of computers with the same workgroup of mine. But in Fedora when I click on Network I just get a single item Windows Network and I can't see the ...
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Copy from linux to windows every minute

I currently quickly setup a way to copy files from my linux machine to a windows share that multiple people can access, but I'm looking for a better way. In Windows 7, I made a folder accessible to ...
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Windows Domain Server on FreeBSD

Is it possible (and if it is, could you point me in the proper direction) to set up a Windows Domain server (active directory and all that stuff) on a FreeBSD machine? I do understand that I need to ...
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Make samba follow symlink outside share

This is ubuntu server 10.04 64 and samba 3.4.7 I have a shared directory /home/mit/share and another one /home/temp that I link into the shared one: ln -s /home/temp /home/mit/share/temp But on ...
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From Ubuntu 10.10, how do you connect to a Windows 7 share without a password setup?

I have: Ubuntu 10.10 Windows 7 in virtual box (let's call this vbox) Then another Windows 7 machine (let's call this remote) in the network When I'm on vbox and browse (\ip.of.remote) I'm able to ...
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Connect Windows printer to Linux machine via samba

How can I connect my Windows printer to a Linux (RHEL5) box via samba? I'm looking for a clear configuration file
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File sharing with Windows

I have a small home network consisting of two computers. One is running Windows 7 and the other Ubuntu 10.04. Neither computer is permanently on. I am trying to set up file sharing between the two. ...