A free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, which provides Windows file and print services.
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samba security share && user
This is my smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = myworkgroup
netbios name = mercurio
server string = fileServer
security = share
map to guest = Bad User
[Share]
comment = Carella di condivisione globale
...
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lp command can’t open samba url
I have a Linux host with Samba installed and a Windows server with some Files.
Samba is set up correctly and works just fine.
I can show PDFs from the Windows server with
evince ...
2
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1answer
235 views
Samba set share browsable only for a group
How I can configure samba to set browsable a share for a group only.
I wanna hide the share for all other users, if a set browsable to yes all the users can see the share when explore. I don't want ...
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How to give Read, Write Permissions using IPs in SAMBA
I want to give Read and Write access based on the IPs instead of the Users in SAMBA using smb.conf
This is the Text I copied from my smb.conf file.
[TEST]
comment = test
path = ...
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smbclient fails with message 'protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES', what does it mean and how to fix it?
I'm trying to access a Windows share with smbclient and I'm getting this NT_STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES error, regardless of correct or incorrect credentials.
The command was about listing the ...
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1answer
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PuTTY and PowerTerm scripting Problem, Open a just in time URL via Samba share
I'm sshing into a fedora server using Powerterm (an expensive overly priced, license based, terminal emulator). The server uses an ancient form of (what I'm told is similar to) cobalt. I have no ...
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1answer
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Sharing ubuntu drives with windows
I'm new to the whole Linux thing. I have a Linux server up and running and have been using this guide as a help. I have an issue with shared drives. My windows machines can see them but cant write to ...
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1answer
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Networking and Samba from a quest OS running on qemu
I'm trying to test some software on a big endian system to ensure compatibility. My plan is to use qemu on Ubuntu 12.04 to emulate a MIPS system. So far I've been able to create the quest system ...
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samba: files written to public share belong to nobody
I have setup a samba share like this:
[shared]
path = /home/shared/
comment = shared
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
I can access it from windows, but when I ...
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2answers
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How would I mount a linux shared folder on another linux system?
What I'm trying to do is to share my VM development web server's /www folder, to make it more convenient to transfer the HTML, PHP and web documents I have made to test on the web server.
Would I ...
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Cannot mount samba share: Mount error (22)
I am trying to mount a password protected samba share.
When I access the share via smb://server/share in nautilus there is no password/user promt, it seems I am logged in as a guest and I can browse ...
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1answer
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Network file-sharing between Linux and Android
I want to share the contents of my external HDD with my Android phone.
For the last two hours, I've been trying to correctly set up Samba - it was absolutely horrible.
There must be another, simpler ...
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Samba: Sharing some folders without duplicate?
I keep all my Photos on my Share: //COMPUTERNAME/Photos
In the Photos share, it contains all the years folders follow by album name, example:
//COMPUTERNAME/Photos/2012/New York/
...
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CIFS VFS: Unexpected SMB signature
When I login to server in Text mode the following Message appearing on one of Server
CIFS VFS: Unexpected SMB signature
We are using Redhat 5.6 64 bit.
Is this serious error and how to resolve ...
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Read only unified directory
My end goal is that I want a samba share that displays all of the folders across several disks as one unified, read-only folder. This is for a NAS/media server setup.
Is there a way to create a ...
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2answers
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Prevent creating directories but allow creating files
I have a directory shared through Samba. I want users to be able to create/modify/delete files but not create/erase directories. I haven't found a way to do it. Maybe with SELinux? But how?
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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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can't connect to samba drive in centos 6.3
#smbclient //ballzdeep/torrents
Server not using user level security and no password supplied
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
Does this mean i need to require username and password ...
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1answer
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Deleting Non-empty Directory with smbclient
How can I remove a non-empty directory with smbclient?
I have tried the following:
1) rm
Result: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE listing [dir_path]
2) recurse;rm
Result: No Error but also nothing happens! ...
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1answer
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Samba passwords expiring in x days - how do we fix them to not expire
We use OpenLDAP and Samba v3. Recently some Samba-defined users (no accounts on the shared linux server) started being listed in logwatch as having their passwords come up to "will expire"...I ...
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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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1answer
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Where does Samba 4 store user passwords?
Where does Samba 4 store user passwords? How can I import my password hashes from Samba 3 in Samba 4?
I am using my own LDAP server with samba 3, and the password hash is stored within the ...
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1answer
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mount -t cifs: “Operation not supported”, but can connect via smbclient
After sysadmin replaced the NAS, I can no longer mount the network share with
sudo mount -t cifs //netgear.local/public /media/mountY -o uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,username="adam",password="password"
...
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How can I set up a samba share accessible via windows 7 to a specific point on the server?
A samba share is set up according to the directions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba
The /etc/samba/smb.conf file looks like this (after some hacking around from googling):
# This ...
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How can I create an encrypted, file-system–agnostic, mountable volume?
At work, we have an iMac (running OS X) that shares a partitioned hard drive over the network. I'd like to back up to my partition from my Linux machine. I've attempted connecting via cifs, then ...
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Debian based Raspberry – samba invisible unless I restart
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian along with other computers on the same network. I installed, configured and started samba to share files from my home folder of the Raspberry Pi to my other ...
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Allowing write access to an SMB mounted drive
Following this guide I was able to get my Samba share to mount on my Ubuntu 12.04 system. I can navigate the folders just fine. However I cannot create a directory nor create a file. I get the ...
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Files replaced with Finder on Mac creating a copy on Samba's .recycle
Scenario:
Ad Agency with Samba Server and multiple Mac users, 0 Windows users.
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:repository = /storage/files/.recycle/%U
Workflow:
Before start ...
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1answer
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SELinux Write access for vsftpd and samba
This should be easy enough I think, but I'm new to SELinux.
I have a CentOS 6 file server. I have some LVM file systems at /var/media and I want to use both Samba and FTP to share them with a Windows ...
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308 views
access a command line via a web browser
2 questions:
Question 1
My job blocks ssh which means that I cannot ssh to my home server. However, they do allow https out. Is there a package out there for ubuntu that will allow me to connect to ...
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Samba connection slowness after ip change
we have encountered with a problem when we chaged the samba server's ip address. There are so many OS varies from Windows,GNU/Linux, Solaris and IBM.
The samba server is running on SOlaris. And all ...
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2answers
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How can I easily configure samba share in Debian Wheezy?
I have just installed a new Debian Wheezy and I am trying to create a new share. I am using KDE 4, and there in the folder preferences menu I found option to share the folder with Samba - it doesn't ...
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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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Create Temporary Samba Share
Is there a possibility to temporarily share a directory per Samba?
With python3 i can serve the current directory per HTTP using:
python -m http.server.
I'd like to do the same thing with Samba.
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Problem with permissions when sharing a mounted filesystem
I am setting up a linux to act as a fileserver, using CentOS 6.3.
Since I want to have disk quotas and can't install LVM (it is a 32 bit machine), I am using an LVM volume with ext4 mounted as ...
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Why samba is showing Absolute Path in Explorer
I setup samba between Linux and Windows.
And I entered the description of data in smb.conf file
[Daily_Reports]
comment = Daily_Reports
path = /mnt/vg-stg/New-storage/Daily_Reports/
...
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Why could mount.cifs mount an empty folder?
gentoo, kernel 3.7.10
samba 3.6.12
SMB/CIFS server: Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2
I've encountered the situation when mount.cifs behaves differently from smbclient program.
The following ...
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samba 4 force user
I have a directory with files owned by Linux user quux. I want to give access to it over CIFS using Samba 4 for two persons so they have different usernames foo and bar and passwords but access the ...
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1answer
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Automatically mount network drive when available
I have a NAT drive, that is accessible via SMB. I have an entry in fstab to mount it at boot.
But if the drive is not switched on it is not mounted during boot and I have to manually mount later.
(The ...
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Why can't users besides root create files in a samba share?
I am sharing a directory on one Red Hat machine via samba, and mounting it on another Red Hat machine with the following command:
mount -t cifs -o guest <remotepath> <localpath>
The ...
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Preventing access blocking while external HDD spins up?
I have an old laptop where I installed Debian along with a samba server which I am using to share read-write access to 4 external hard drives, which I use to stream my media from.
All works fine, ...
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Double SSH tunnelling for SMB shared folder
I am actually working from PC1 (using Mac OSX) on a distant computer(Linux) PC2 using SSH.
This distant computer PC2 does not have any connection to Internet but is in a network with a PC3 (Windows ...
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How to mount samba rw because everything fails
I'm trying to mount windows share on my laptop and everything mounts ok but somehow I get permission denied when I try to create new file inside mounted folder. I tried noperm, uid, gid, noacl etc. ...
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Samba guest access
I have a home server with samba. with windows i can access and make folder(always with permission 777) like guest( no password ) without problem. But with linux, when i mkdir i can not modify this ...
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write only permissions on samba
I am busy setting up a file server in our church office (using samba on a debian machine).
I would like to impliment a dropbox-like folder for each user, where othere users may deposit files.
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Samba 3.6 Configuration in Fedora 17
I need help configuring the Samba server so I can connect from a Windows (edit Windows 7) machine to my Fedora. I followed several tutorials because and non of them work for me. Here are two of them:
...
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How can I share files between two Linux machines over LAN?
I am currently running Fedora 18 with Gnome on two computers which are connected to the same router. I have been using Samba to share files between the two, but I know there must be a better way.
On ...
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Samba — Can't write to a share with “unix extensions = no” set in smb.conf
/etc/samba/smb.conf :
[global]
workgroup = w
server string = server
security = user
load printers = no
debug level = 10
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 5000
dns proxy = no
printing = ...
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GUI tool for managing Samba shares?
My understanding is that swat is no longer actively maintained. [1]
Is there a GUI tool for maintaining Samba shares.
PS Platform:LDME
[1] Not only that I can't get it to work with xinetd on my ...
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CIFS vs SAMBA, What are the differences
What are the differences between CIFS and SAMBA? When would you use one over the other? Are there any performance differences between the two?
