Questions tagged [smb]
smb is an abbreviation for Server Message Block, a network protocol for sharing files and printers implemented by Windows, Samba and others.
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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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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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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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cache smb mount on local hard drive
I have a smb mount on my linux server, but occasionally it loses connection, interrupting the software using the mounted directory. Is there a way to cache the smb mount on local disk?
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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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Check accessibility nfs mount disk
Server Debian 10
I have multiple mapped network drives, like this:
//10.0.1.101/db/ /mnt/db cifs rw,cache=none,credentials=/mnt/creds/.db,nounix,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,actimeo=1 0 0
//10.0.1.111/...
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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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Mount smb3 folder with SmbServerNameHardeningLevel=2
TLDR:
Is the mount.smb3 command compatible with Windows endpoints with the policy SmbServerNameHardeningLevel set to 2? How can I make it work?
Description of the error:
I am on Ubuntu Desktop 22.04....
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Samba 4.17.4 - share access issue
I have Samba installed on Arch Linux. With the latest Samba update to 4.17.4 version I cannot browse smb server without specifying the share, i.e. if I do smb://192.168.1.10 in file browser it lists ...
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Printer stuck on insecure Samba version
I have an HP OfficeJet 8600 printer in my office that's around 10 years old but still works perfectly fine. I occasionally use this printer to scan to a samba share hosted on my DD-WRT router. I ...
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Using 'get' to transfer contents of folders using smbclient
Using smbclient and the 'get' command to move files from a Windows network share over to a Linux box. I can smbclient from Linux to the network share and bring individual files over by doing ...
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How can I mount a cifs share as a volume from a rootless podman container?
Say I create a named volume
podman volume create --opt type=cifs --opt o=async --opt device=//mynas.lan/steamcache steamcache
According to podman volume inspect, this volume's mountpoint is
/home/me/....
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CentOS 6: Show supported SMB protocol
I have a CentOS 6 that can mount a share from a Windows Server 2008. However, it can't mount share from a newly purchased NAS or from a share on a Windows 11 machine.
How to I view the supported SMB ...
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Remote location mountable with gio but not mount
I have a remote disk on my router accessible via samba.
I can do gio mount smb://192.168.1.1/StratoCumulus and this will mount it as a Network connection (accessible under nemo left panel, in the ...
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Mount SMB share without specifying shared directory in remote path
I was about to change mount from "//192.168.1.x/SomeFolder" to "//192.168.1.x/" so i could choose which dataset i want to access with my docker containers.
It gave me error like:
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Using server-side copy on a SMB share
According to the SMB docs server-side copy should work on recent versions of SMB via cp --reflink
When trying this with a server running smbd 4.15 (via crazy-max/docker-samba) and a share mounted with ...
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copying file to mounted SMB share changes the file date
I'm using KDE 5.20.5 on MX-21.2. I have mounted SMB shares with fstab. If I copy files to the mounted share with Dolphin the file date is changed to the current date.
If I copy the file with Dolphin ...
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Cannot log in to samba from host win10 to guest vmware ubuntu 22.04
I have a Windows 10 host, on which I run guest VMware Ubuntu 22.04.
Samba is installed on the guest. I've added the [homes] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
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What SELinux setting is preventing Samba from displaying and allowing me access to shares?
I have a very basic /etc/samba/smb.conf configuration:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba server (%v) on %h
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
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Whose fault is it that opening the same Samba-shared file does not give updated file?
In the scenario below, the app on Windows does not get the updated version of the file, but gets the old version of the file. I have two methods to get the new version in this case: (1) restart the ...
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NAS issues with SMB/CIFS; how to 'see' client-server messaging?
I have a new Synology NAS (DS1621+), and have begun integration into my home network. I'm having some problems using it with my Linux hosts. I can mount the NAS, but the permissions (as seen from ...
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smbclient path not recognized in file transfer smbserver.py
I hope is all well.
So I am trying smberver.py to transfer file whoami.exe
here is what I did so far:
smbserver.py temp /usr/share/windows-binaries/whoami.exe
Impacket v0.10.0 - Copyright 2022 ...
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smbclient showing this error: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED listing \* when I am trying to list files
What I am trying to is that to try and transfer whoami.exe. But I am facing few challenges.
First, I did this:
sudo /usr/share/doc/python3-impacket/examples/smbserver.py temp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-...
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rsync to Windows Server NTFS share always copies all files/folders
I am using rsync to backup the /var/www/ folder on my Lubuntu 20.04 host to an NTFS share on a Windows 2022 Server. The command below always copies every file and folder, despite the fact that no ...
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Can `mount.cifs` but can't access smb path in nautilus
Trying to access a shared folder on Win 7 (to both Anyone and Guest, with password disabled) from an Ubuntu 22 machine.
If I try to browse path smb://192.168.0.2 in Nautilus, I get "...
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How to find out with which user gvfs has connected to smb share
I can connect to network drives with the following command:
( echo myusername; echo MYDOMAIN; echo password123 ) | gio mount smb://127.0.0.1/Sharename
And I can get some file attributes of the mount ...
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Mount SMB: mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links - How to debug and resolve?
running the command:
sudo mount -t cifs //<IP>/Folder /mnt/Folder -o username=some_user,password="some_pass",gid=<ID>,uid=<ID>
Gives the error:
mount error(40): Too many ...
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How can I auto mount an SMB share on KDE + Arch Linux? (re: kio-fuse?)
I'm using a Steam Deck which runs Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. It has a read-only filesystem (for system files) but does include kio-fuse (5.0.1).
What's the best practice to automatically mount an SMB ...
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mount smb share after wireguard with fstab or systemd
I'm trying to mount an SMB-share after a wireguard connection has been established. Therefore I did the following things:
created a wireguard config
made systemd start the connection on startup
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list all network storage based mounted filesystems in Linux
My requirement is to find out all such directories in Linux which are mount points for network based storage/file systems (like NFS , SSHFS, CIFS, SMB, etc)
I did some research, and there is no ...
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How can/should I cache a CIFS network mount for offline browsing of the directory tree? [duplicate]
I have a very large CIFS mount containing ~500,000 files on big slow 5400rpm drives. I only ever access it from my one laptop. Lately, I've been organizing it, which means lots of searching and ...
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CIFS: Status code returned 0xc000006d STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Linux: 4.18.0-305
OS: CentOS 8.4
I have an SMB folder that is mounted with the following command:
mount -t cifs -o iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=${_passwordFile},nobrl,nounix,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=...
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Read password from variable when executing a command
I have a network share I mount on a Linux-computer using the following command:
sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/path/to/credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0600,dir_mode=0700 //192.168.6.9/...
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Securing Samba on debian 10
I'm configuring a debian 10 VPS and recently installed samba. I was impressed -- in a bad way :) -- about how quickly /var/log/samba started filling up with all sorts of attempts to access the one ...
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Mount SMB Share
I am trying to mount an SMB share in Debian that is hosted on Server 2019 so that I can run a nightly bash script and copy some data over to it. Its been working well until we turned off SMB V1.0 for ...
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Manually calling mount point
In my /etc/fstab file, i defined a network shared folder mount. Like so:
//172.16.30.50/secret2/secret3 /media/secret1/secret2/secret3 cifs credentials=/home/myuser/aux/some_file.txt,x-systemd....
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cifs mount without owner or permissions on RHEL8 (but fine with RHEL7)
So on RHEL8, I'm connecting to an Isilon storage appliance via CIFS. The mount options in fstab are rw,vers=2.1,nobrl,credentials=*****,uid=sviibtst,gid=mqbrkrs,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=0770,_netdev.
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How to connect to old Samba-server with new smbclient?
A Linux-based multimedia-box I have runs smbd, which reports its version as 3.0.30.
smbclient 4.10 used to be able to connect to it, but, after upgrading the client to 4.13.8, I'm getting ...
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Samba has a module vfs_full_audit, what does each object actually mean within the module?
The module vfs_full_audit in Samba lists objects that can be added to the module to increase the logging specificity or verbosity generally of syscalls. Example:
# defaults for auditing
full_audit:...
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Try to mount SMB share on NAS and get "Operation not supported"
I have several Synology NAS, running DSM 6.2.2-24922 Update 5, which I successfully mount on Ubuntu 18.04 with:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.x.y/folder_name -o username=user,password=???????,uid=1000,...
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Is it possible to make a mounted SMB share behave as a system directory?
Sorry for the ambiguous title, I am not really sure the correct terminology for what I am asking (which is also making searching for an answer kid of tricky).
Basically, I have a TrueNas box on the ...
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cifs mount error(2): No such file or directory
I have a Buffalo Neworkstorage (NS) installed.
I am able to mount the NS from my Rock Pi N10 running Debian (buster) using the following command:
sudo mount.cifs //<<ip.address>>/SHARE /...
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Is it possible to have two sources for a mount?
I have NAS which is accessible via both SMB and FTP. I currently have the share mounted on my Fedora 33 laptop using curlftpfs, but I'd like to know if it's possible to configure it to first try ...
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Problems connecting Debian to Windows SMB share using smbclient?
I'm having problems connecting my Debian Linux system to my Windows SMB share.
The other windows VMs have no problem mounting the drive, just Linux.
This VM is connected to the AD by realmd, and ...
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smbclient throws "ERROR NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT"
I am trying to get a SMB connection to a HTB box with an open SMB port. But smbclient throws an "ERROR NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT" error every time. I've added
client min protocol = CORE
client ...
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Remount SMB file system if unmounted
I have a SMB share via my router that I use to share docs between 4 rPi4B's. I mount the drive on boot via gstab with the following line:
//fritz.box/fritzbox/NAS_USB /home/pi/Documents/Dateiserver ...
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SMB mount with Kerberos
I have set up a server with Fedora 33 and joined it to an Active Directory. This worked successful and users can authenticate themselves with their Active Directory user names. I can also see my Linux ...
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Why is the filesize of my disk twice as small in 'df -h' compared to 'lsblk'?
I just bought and installed a 4TB NAS HDD to use as a SMB Share. Through windows it only shows me a capcity of 2TB instead of 4, which I found out is because Samba uses the 'df -h' command, whereas I ...
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Use ethernet port for smb share transfers, but smb should still be accessible over wifi
I'm pretty new to Linux networking and I'm not sure how to fix a file transfer issue I have.
I have two Raspberry Pis. One is running Raspberry Pi OS and the other is running OSMC. Both are connected ...
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Solaris 11: zfs smb share works only as guest
I'm on Solaris 11.4
I create a zfs fs
zfs create rpool/share
and I set for sharing via smb
zfs set share=name=zfssmb1,path=/rpool/share,prot=smb,csc=auto,guestok=false rpool/share
When I try to ...
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