Questions tagged [samba]
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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Gnome Files (Nautilus) cannot retrieve SMB share list of a server when double-clicking
I am running Gnome Arch. In Files, Other Locations, Networks, there is Server. If I double-click it, Files says "Unable to access location." If I type the server name smb://server and then ...
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Can't Change Permission in Mounted Drive
Hello im new using Ubuntu.
I try to change permission from directory in mounted drive but always back to root or user while run command 'chmod'.
i already try this command :
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btrfs subvolume quota and free space for samba share
My btrfs filesystem is mounted under /mnt/btrfs. I then created a subvolume /mnt/btrfs/sv and enabled quotas. After that I set the quota to 10G with btrfs qgroup limit -e 10G /mnt/btrfs/sv and ...
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securing SAMBA smb.conf best parameters
given today's date, running windows 10 or later and connecting to a RHEL 8.8 or newer Linux system which currently has samba-4.17.5-3.el8_8 what is a best practice for parameters one should have in /...
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Network transfer speed decreases when using samba through kerberos (active directory)
Raspberry Pi 2 running Ubuntu Server hosting an AD domain as a DC using kerberos. Network transfer speed to a share is approx 3Mb/s when it used to be 28 or 30Mb/s using samba alone rather than using ...
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Active directory server set up DNS resolution failure or VERY SLOW, can I route external DNS requests the traditional way, before the server existed?
I'm very new to the world of active directory, windows server etc., so I apologise if some of the questions I ask are a bit stupid, but I'll try and explain exactly what I want to do below, and my ...
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Need permissions assistance with Samba share
Running Samba 4.13.13 on Debian. I just created a new ext4 filesystem on a 1 TB external drive, mounted it, and am attempting to share it. In smb.cnf, I copied the section from the last filesystem, ...
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Samba file/folder deletion error after Debian 12 upgrade
I recently installed Debian 12 for Raspberry Pi and configured a Samba server. But now when I delete a file or a folder over the network I get an error, Samba object not found and then the file or ...
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Windows not reporting correct used and available disk space on Samba server with ZFS
I have a Samba server running ZFS in Linux.
It is a standard by-the-book install with no special configuration.
Each share is mapped to their own ZFS dataset, but not all datasets have their own ...
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Samba domain controller auto assign group IDs
I have successfully provisioned a Samba AD Domain Controller. I was able to join various Windows hosts to it and configure AD Users with roaming profiles. So far this works well.
Now I have created a ...
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Samba ACLs prevent "full control"
I have setup a Samba file server as a Active Directory member.
The file server works fine and users can access a share, create files and folders, delete and modify them etc.
Now consider the following ...
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How to compile and transplant samba-4.19.0 as small as possible？
I am compiling samba-4.19.0 on Debian12 and then porting the compiled content to other systems. At first, I wanted to compile it into a static executable file as much as possible, but I couldn't find ...
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Samba does not show all ZFS snapshots
I am setting up a file server that uses Samba together with ZFS.
I have configured Samba such that it shows the ZFS snapshots under "Previous Versions" in Windows; following is an excerpt of ...
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Creating password protected folders inside password protected samba share
I have already created a password protected samba share which is working fine, but my organizations requirement is as follows:
Separate password protected directories for each department
Inside every ...
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Error 0x80070035 browsing to samba share from Win2019 Server only
I have a samba v4.17.5 server working well, I can browse all of the shares from Win 10 clients. The clients and the samba host are members of a domain.
However, when I try to browse the samba server ...
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LuckyBackup with network drive, rsync errors 95 and 23
I installed samba on my Raspberry PI (Raspian OS Lite, latest version) to mount an external hdd (ext4, luks) connected via usb to my pi which is mounted and unlocked on boot.
I then mounted the ...
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Mac Cannot unmount Disk Images that are mounted from Samba Shares
I am on a Mac OS 12.6.8.
I have gotten Samba to work great with TimeMachine and general sharing of directories off the server which is running FreeBSD 13.2 with Samba Version 4.16.10.
The one issue I ...
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How to create a Samba share that is writable from Windows
Every time I create a shares I can only read but not write from windows but I can from android
I am using webmin to create the samba shares
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# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian ...
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Samba server share files across two subnets
I'm with some problems setting up a Samba server between two subnets;
I Have one subnet that has the Samba server and every computer in this lan can access the files. But now I have another server in ...
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Samba/CIFS permissions (server Debian 10, client Ubuntu 22.04)
As in the subject: samba server running on a Debian 10 machine (inside my home LAN, 192.168.1.x); client is my PC, running Ubuntu 22.04
(1) Files on my PC show with permission 644, regardless of the ...
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Samba unbuntu 22.04 share something that is not in /home
Here's my problem; if i set path = /home/user/share/ inside of /etc/samba/smb.conf i can then type in smb://192.168.0.xxx/share/ and connect with a user and password or as a guest depending on the ...
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can't delete folders on samba share
I am dealing with a really weird issue I can't identify the cause of. I have a samba share mounted using autofs in Rocky 9.2 with the flags -fstype=cifs,rw,nounix,file_mode=0700,dir_mode=0700,...
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How to log authorization errors from an authenticated user?
I use Samba 3.6.6 in conjunction with Windows10. User share read and write on a SMB share.
Sometimes users receive message that prevent them from deleting folders, such as "You do not have the ...
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Autofs with CIFS for home directories not really working
I'm having a bit of grief trying to get home directories that are automounted from a CIFS share working. In auto.master I have added the line
/home/ /etc/auto.home
and in /etc/auto.home I have
* -...
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Samba share user missing Unix groups at login
I have a simple home Ubuntu server running Samba (Version 4.15.13-Ubuntu) to provide a share for my local network only. The intent is to have Unix users assigned into a group "sambashare", ...
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Samda/Winbind Active Directory Failover Not Working - Winbind Stops Responding
Ubuntu 20.04
Samba/Winbind Version: 4.15.13-Ubuntu
I'm having an odd issue with Sambda/Winbindd that I can't seem to figure out. We have multiple windows domain controllers within our network (all ...
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Error connecting to samba share
I am running a samba server on a Raspbian 11 device and I'm trying to connect to it from an Ubuntu 20 device.
When I open the file manager, I can see the samba share but when I try to access to it (...
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Setfacl in folders working but in files don't work correctly
I have a file server running Samba 4.9 in Debian 11 the share folders is working.
I used setfacl for subgroups, so i had conclusion was confused and not working.
So i used setfacl for each user, in ...
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Samba becomes laggy after a few hours of use, requires frequent deamon restarts
I have a Linux file server with about 40 file shares and 50 clients. The clients are not usually all connected at the same time, the active number of clients at any given time would be about 50%-75% ...
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Make linux samba share visible in windows with subnets
How do I make my linux samba share visible from a windows client, where the server and the client are in two different subnets?
For my samba share I use the linux fileserver turnkey image. I use wsdd ...
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Samba share won't auto-mount, even though "sister-mount" does without issue
This is driving me absolutely batty. I have two shares:
[applications]
comment = applications
path = /mnt/applications
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
valid users = andrew
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Configure samba to allow all machines on the network full access to each other
I have a LAN on which I run a number of Linux devices (a few Raspberry Pis, some Debian distros on old computers) and a few Windows devices. No one besides me uses this LAN.
The Linux machines are the ...
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What is the "best" filesystem for Timemachine (Samba fruit) on a Linux host (Debian)
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Looking for a canonical, fact-based answer to the question what filesystem is the "best" (if any) in terms of operational performance to serve an OSX Timemachine service from Samba ...
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New LDAP user can't connect to [homes], but older one can?
My system:
# cat /etc/*release*
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=...
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On-the-fly SMB shares conf to quickly share files
I want to use samba to quickly and easily share files on occasions.
I set up a smbuser to which I forbid login with
chsh -s /bin/false smbuser
I give the smbuser's password to people and I have my ...
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accessing samba printer from Windows 11 client hangs forever
My samba server is running in standalone mode and sharing a CUPS printer. I can print from my android phones fine. Since updating to Windows 11, accessing the printer causes the application to hang, ...
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Cannot logon to Ubuntu server using trusted domain AD credentials
I've got an AD domain joined Ubuntu 22.04 server. I need to be able to logon to it using credentials from a trusted domain that is attached to the AD domain that the server is a member of. Logon is ...
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How to enable file sharing between Windows XP guest and Arch Linux host using QEMU/KVM with VirtManager?
I'm trying to set up a shared folder (or Samba server, but I'd prefer a shared folder) to allow file sharing between my Windows XP guest and my host operating system. I've installed the virtio ...
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Install Samba package from ISO file or CDROM
I have an old server which is running Ubuntu Linux 16.04 in a lab environment. It is not not possible to upgrade to the new Ubuntu version due to hardware capacity. I decided to keep it and us it as ...
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Can only create folders on Samba since dist upgrade of client to Ubuntu LTS 22
I want full owner access to the mounted system. As I used to have before the dist upgrade. I assume something about the fstab handling has changed.
Mount options are unchanged (fstab client):
//IP/nas ...
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Restrict users to create files on Samba share by file extensions
I'm having a network of users where all windows machines have a samba share attached. These users are not allowed to share specific files with file extensions like ".bat" or ".ps1"....
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How to update Samba to 4.16 (in /usr/local/samba)?
I use Samba domain controller on my Ubuntu (18.04.6 LTS) server. Samba is installed in /usr/local/samba folder. Samba version is 4.10.16 and I want to update it to 4.16 (due to Windows 11 22H2 problem)...
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Windows 11 (22H2) and Ubuntu server (Samba) problem
In February some workers in my office got new computers with Windows 11 version 22H2. After joining them to the domain (domain controller is Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS), nobody could log in on these new ...
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What's the difference between smb.service and smbd.service?
I see some people are using smb.service:
ex:
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/getting-started-samba#:~:text=Samba%20enables%20Linux%20%2F%20Unix%20machines,evolved%20and%20added%20more%20capabilities.
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Why no smb.service GNOME file manager can still mount a disk from network?
Tested in Ubuntu 20.04
The smb service and smbd service didn't start.
I can still use GNOME file manager to discover network share folders, and I can mount it.
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Samba 4 change password old enable
I've a samba4 domain and I've changed user password but I've tried the old password and it still works!
My workaround was change the password twice with same new password.
Anyone know why this happens?...
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'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The transport connection is now disconnected
When I try to add usersahre using nautilus-share pulgin I get the following error
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The ...
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Problems connecting to the Samba server over the Internet
My problem: When my friend tries to connect to the network drive he gets an error message.
"Make sure the name is spelled correctly. There may be a network
error."
But he entered ...
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Why does the output of testparm differ from /etc/samba/smb.conf?
This is the output of the [global] section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf of a random Synology NAS:
~# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
printcap name=cups
winbind enum groups=yes
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QEMU Shared folder between Linux host and windows 10 Guest
I installed samba then I used the following command:
qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=Windows.img,format=qcow2,if=virtio -nic user,id=nic0,smb=/home/aarav/Downloads
After starting up the VM, I opened ...
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