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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Samba shares - How to restrict access to Active Directory groups
I'm working in an Active Directory domain environment and am trying to configure some Samba shares so certain directories on a SUSE UNIX server are accessible by Windows clients.
Access to each share ...
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SMB Not Able to Use Date Command Substitution
smbclient //10.10.101.29/it -W WORKGROUP -U user --password pass -c 'put ./file_$(date +%Y_%m_%d).file ./folder/file_$(date +%Y_%m_%d).file'
The above does not work & gives me an error stating:
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Samba: share is not accessible for AD groups
I have a CentOS server joined to an ID domain with realm(8) using sssd(8). I don´t have winbind installed, though. I can log fine with AD domain users into this CentOS server. I set up samba shares in ...
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CIFS directory listing hangs but able to read/write files
I am running CentOS7.6 and Windows Server 2012 R2 for SMB connection. I am able to mount volume but not it doesn't allow me to do a directory listing. I can do the directory listing on a folder which ...
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cifs smb mount stale file handle
I am mounting an SMB share and I have finally got it to give no error but the folder I am mounting to then has an issue.
ls: cannot access 'cteratest': Stale file handle
The fstab command
sudo ...
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How to change the MAC address of a Samba share?
The MAC address associated with my samba share is null:
# nmblookup -A localhost
Looking up status of 127.0.0.1
HOSTNAME <00> - B <ACTIVE>
HOSTNAME &...
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Can't connect to SMB shared Storage from Ubuntu 18.04
i have an external hard drive connect to my TP-Link router and shared using USB Share, i am unable to connect to this Share from Ubuntu, i can only see shared volumes but can't gain access.
I can ...
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Set SMB2 protocol in Samba 3.6.6
I've decided to switch to the higher version of SMB in Samba (at least 2) - mostly because of the security reasons.
I've tried to add to the smb.conf in the [global] section:
client min protocol = ...
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How can I fetch file metadata on cifs mounted folder?
In our company we have a shared Windows folder. If I access it from Windows, I can pop up Properties menu of a file and find its metadata: who created it, last access times and so on.
On linux I have ...
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mount error(2): No such file or directory - CIFS - Rasperry Pi
I am playing around with a share on my NAS being unable to mount a SMB share.
Based on the ubuntu smb documentation the command for mounting a SMB / CIFS should be as following:
sudo mount -t cifs -o ...
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can not set user write permissions to file in SMB mounted directory [duplicate]
I have mounted a Windows 10 directory so I can edit some files on my Windownz machine.
sudo mount -t cifds //W10/Users ~/public/ -o username=bobby
When checking the directories they all have the ...
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Cannot connect to Windows 10 via smbclient because of the wrong password
I downloaded the samba package from arch (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/samba#Client)
Then I enabled Network discovery as described in this article: https://websiteforstudents.com/access-...
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Merlin Asuswrt Cifs Smb Share cannot mount
After installing Merlin 380.70 on my asus router I cannot mount my USB-connected smb shares via cifs. I keep getting varying mount errors: 6 & 22 are the most common. I've tried changing the smb ...
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smb-share connection time increases each reboot on windows PE
We are currently developing a system that does automated BIOS updates for our computers.
The system runs in Windows 10 PE booted via PXE-Boot. One of the first steps is connecting to a SMB-Share ...
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Allow write access for regular user on CIFS share
I want to mount one of my media folders of my Synology DiskStation (DS414J, DSM 6.2) on my laptop (Manjaro running on Kernel 4.17.18) via SMB/CIFS. I set up a DiskStation user called media that has ...
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SMB protocol min max values available?
I am running Samba 3.6 in SLES 11.4. I recently added in /etc/samba/smb.conf in the [global] section the following
min protocol = SMB2
max protocol = SMB2
this was done to allow communication with ...
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Connect to Windows shared folder via GUI application?
I have a Windows machine in my local network and want to access files on it. I've made some locations on this computer shared. When I'm using smbclient (console application) or mount utility with CIFS ...
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Linux to Windows - can list smb shares but cannot connect
This is a really weird one and all the research I've done so far isn't panning out.
I'm trying to connect to a Windows share from CentOS 7.5.1804 to Windows Server 2008 R2 (no snickering and let's ...
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mounting smb shares without root permission
How do I mount network shares without root? It has been discussed a lot but I found no useful answers (sudo not acceptable, fstabs not acceptable, mount.cifs does not work without root either).
The ...
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Linux based SMB share: can access only using owner account from Windows [duplicate]
In Windows when I connect using test_reader account I can access with no problems. However when I use peter account it gives me Access Denied.
I did some testing and if I change share folder ...
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Samba login fails
I setup an Samba server and I tried to connect to it from a machine in the same VLAN, I can see the shares, and it asks me for a password but after that it fails with the following 2 lines in the LOG:
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QEMU: Problems when connecting Tails-VM to a Samba network share on host-machine
I run Tails in a virtual machine on a Debian 9 host. To access a shared folder on the host via Tails, I try to set up a Samba-exchange.
While this approach worked completely fine in Debian 8, it does ...
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Closed - Unable to delete file from mounted location (SMB share) as root
UPDATE: It seems like the problem was caused because of another service which had nothing to do with smb. Apologies for not having a proper resolution and I am just closing the issue.
I have mounted ...
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smbget gives always “File exists” [closed]
I am trying to use smbget to fetch a file from a Windows share from the command line, and whatever I try, I get the same (useless) error message:
[bf@localhost syntess]$ smbget -U username%password ...
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`cp` fails writing to file / directory while `cat >` and `echo` work fine
On a RHEL 7.2 based system I try to copy files to a smb mounted location:
cd /target
cp /tmp/foo .
This fails with this error message:
cp: cannot create regular file ‘./foo’: Operation not ...
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Multiple Paths in Single SMB Share
I like to make a read only share for a user whom has access to several root folders in my fileserver. I don't want to create a bunch of shares for each folder, can I somehow add multiple paths in smb....
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GNU Samba server: check SMB version of exported and mounted shares
I have a NAS Zyxel NAS326 running on Linux acting as Samba server. I can't exactly say which Linux distribution, this is all I get from "uname -a":
root@nas326:~# uname -a
Linux nas326 3.10.39 #1 Fri ...
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Mount SMB share (usb in router) on Raspberry error 56
I'm having trouble mounting my USB in router on my Raspberry.
Status so far:
I can access the drive on both my windows machine and mac machine.
I can access the drive on my raspberry somehow (...
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put oldest file in log.txt on smbclient
We have 94 PC's on 1 site. There is a folder that we need to check for the oldest file in that folder on each PC.
I can run a .txt file with all the IP's in a loop, but I don't know how to check and ...
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Printing to CUPS via SAMBA shared printer slow
We have a Debian print server running CUPS. In CUPS we have a Raw print queue configured that connects to our networked printer via IPP.
I've also shared this printer to our Windows users via a Samba ...
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problem with smbclient login
I have to copy a file from a linux server to a windows but i have some problems wth the smbclient's login because i need to do this automatically in a script.
This command smbclient -U LR //10.123....
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How to view and browse windows shared folders in entire local network?
So as the name suggest, I'm looking for a way of displaying all shared folders on all shared machines in a local MS Windows network.
I can list shares on a known windows machine with:
smbclient -L //...
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Tails: How to connect Tails to a Samba network share?
Quick question:
Is there any way to connect Tails to a Samba-based shared-folder in the local network? Big thanks to @cacahuatl I found an answer for this part!
Now the more difficult part is:
Do I ...
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smb.conf using different SMB protocol for different SMB share
So far I was trying to boot the HyperV VM from SMB share, it was failing with error "Remote SMB does not support resiliency". Finally I found that it only works with SMB2_02 protocol by adding below ...
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Prevent CIFS mount to constantly query SMB share Keep-Alive
I have an fstab mountpoint defined as follows:
//host.local /media/share1 cifs noexec,nofail,auto,nouser,_netdev,credentials=/home/foo/.smbcredentials,gid=1000,uid=1000,rw 0 0
The network share is ...
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How to get persistent (permanent) smb mount using kerberos authentication on RHEL7?
Environment: I have joined a few of my RHEL 7.3 boxes with MS AD domain using realmd/sssd. I have allowed only members of a few allowed groups can login to the box. Credentials caching is disabled. ...
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Why doesn't Samba represent Linux symlinks as NTFS symlinks?
Samba is showing/representing symlinks as regular folders. NTFS has symlink reparse points, and these can be represented via UNC - I tried sharing the Users directory in Windows and it showed the ...
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How to enable unix file permissions on samba share with smb 2.0+
I am trying to set permissions on a Samba share mounted with vers=3.0, but it does not work (with vers=2.1 or vers=2.0 also issue is present).
As per SMB3-Linux cifsacl option is needed for setting ...
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Mount SMB on boot
I have a NAS share mounted in CentOS7 through SMB. I did this with:
sudo mount.cifs //10.23.83.7/Videos /mnt/smb/plex -o user=plex
This is clearly for a Plex Media Server, but when I reboot it is no ...
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Browse windows network with Thunar
I have a clean installation of Xubuntu 17.10 but when I open Thunar and try to "browse network." I get an error that says "failed to retrieve share list from server. Connection timed out."
The other ...
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How to force Samba to use SMB 3.0?
With SMB 1.0/CIFS being removed from Windows 10 in Redstone 3 update due to vulnerability, this will conk out a lot of systems relying on older network hard drive enclosures.
I have a Linux-based ...
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copying a file from one linux disk to another via windows smb has pauses
Bit of an odd question, and very hard to search on.
What I am doing is copying a file from a mech disk to an ssd on an ubuntu 16.04 system, via smb shares.
The copy works, but it will run at about 80-...
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How to disable encryption client side, in Linux, when mounting an Azure share with mount.cifs using SMBv3?
I checked the whole man mount.cifs and also everything I found related to SMBv3.
I have the following scenario:
A Ubuntu 16.04 VM in Azure, with kernel 4.12.11.
A Azure Files share, with "Secure ...
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In midnight commander, how is a windows domain specified when making an smb connection?
Midnight commander allows making network connections to SMB services (if compiled with support for the SMB file system).
The help contents for detailing how to make an SMB connection are these
SMB ...
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Very slow CIFS/SMB performace
I switched from NFS to SMB/CIFS since the permission system of NFS annoyed me.
I never had performance issues while using NFS (1GB Lan) and had about 70-90 MB/s write and read speed while writing to ...
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Mounting a Windows shared drive to Kali Linux
Edit: Ok. I was able to mount a single drive. What can I do to "mount" the entire server?
This is my situation:
I have a couple of Windows 7 machines, that share folders and entire drives.
I am ...
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Mounted SMB shares: permission troubles with UID mismatch between client and server [closed]
On the Linux machine LinuxClient I'm trying to mount an SMB share backups located on the Unix machine Server.
I want to provide separate directories within backups for different purposes, and I want ...
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smb.conf min protocol = SMB2 timeouts from remote (local network) machine
I've tried to include min protocol = SMB2 to improve the security of my local Linux machines. But when I do this, I get time out from within KDE and Operation Not Supported from CLI.
Removing the ...
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CIFS share available only via VPN. Firewall disabled
Suppose the following setup:
VPN: VPN server (docker + openVPN)
FS: File storage (cifs share)
Application, Load Balancer, Database, ...
Both servers are root access ubuntu server virtual machines ...
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cygwin: ls -i reports wrong inode number for files in UNC path
I have a multiple-version backup, that uses hard links for files that have not changed from version to version, in my QNAP NAS.
The backup target is an external EXT4 disk connected via eSATA to the ...
