Questions tagged [network-shares]
Generally used to share a resource over a network, including files and folders as well as printers or other physical devices
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Enable SMB file sharing on OS X - "Incorrect Password"
I have a Mac running Snow Leopard connected to an Active Directory domain. I can share folders on the Mac and view files from Windows without problems.
When I try to enable my Mac account for write ...
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Modified file not being read over network
I have a strange issue with file sharing in Windows Server 2012.
We have an application that's run from a network share. There's also a Terminal Services server so remote users can run it.
This ...
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Mapped network drive is behind a VPN; How do I stop Windows from auto-connecting at startup?
(After about 15 minutes of searching S.U. I haven't found any relevant questions, so excuse me if I got the wrong search terms, and this is a dupe.)
I'm running Windows 7 at work, and have a couple ...
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Centrally manage thumbs.db for multiple clients on a CIFS share
I have a multimedia archive viewable read-only by multiple Windows 7 clients. Each time the clients browse the directory in Windows Explorer, the thumbnails are re-created. They're useful, but they ...
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How to access SMB shares when signed into Windows with a Microsoft Account?
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You can't add a user named:
MicrosoftAccount\[email protected]
because
it's too long (you're only allowed 20 characters)
MicrosoftAccount is the "domain name", not ...
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Modern SMB/CIFS usage in Linux with support for standby and reconnections
For years, I've been using CIFS by mounting the shares with mount -t cifs. This is what I still tend to use, because it allows me to mount specific shares without having to run a network discovery. ...
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Safe sharing home network, single user Microsoft account without Homegroup
I have a home office with a workstation, and I just added another workstation and a laptop. All use windows10 professional and I use the same Microsoft account to login on all machines. I'm trying to ...
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Error when running executables from mapped network drives
We have an active directory environment with some shares on a file server running windows server 2008 r2, the clients run windows 7 and map the file shares to drives on their machine, this is ...
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RoboCopy unable to copy between a server on a domain to a computer in a workgroup
I have a RoboCopy problem and here is the scenario.
My server is running Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. My laptop is running Windows 10 Technical Preview. The server is running as a domain ...
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A fast modern network filesystem to replace VirtualBox's shared folder emulation
My work code repository is stored in host Linux system, and is accessed from Windows guest; currently, guest can access the repo via 'shared folder' which looks like a samba emulation.
But, it just ...
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Windows File Sharing does not work with firewall disabled
I have a Windows 7 computer which I am trying to use for sharing files over my home network (but not using a homegroup).
Here is what I have tried so far.
Network Discovery and File and Print ...
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Error Code: 0x80070035. The network path was not found
I've tried almost every single way I can find on the internet and none of them worked:
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Windows 10 can't access network drive after startup
I have a Western Digital MyCloud NAS drive which refuses to be accessible after Windows 10 starts. It was mapped in Windows with the \\server\resource syntax and set to reconnect at sign-in. In ...
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Very slow Mercurial push over network share on Windows
It takes TortoiseHG about 15 minutes to perform a push from a repository on my local hard drive (where the .hg directory contains 532 files totalling 110MB) to a bare repository on my network drive.
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"Windows cannot access share" with 0x800704cf error
I have a simple LAN with file server, called FILES, which is a Windows 8.1 Pro machine with a bunch of shared folders. I use several Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 10 Pro client machines to connect to ...
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Log tailing over SMB much slower under Samba 4 vs Samba 3
I just upgraded my internal development VM running Ubuntu 11.10 with Samba 3.6 to Ubuntu 15.04 with Samba 4.1 (fresh install, new VM). Everything is working great, with the exception that my log ...
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Do not allow locking read only files by network
I have shared a folder with read-only access rights. But if someone is using files from this folder, I can not delete these files, because they are locked. Is there any way to prevent read-only users ...
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OS X can connect to Windows machine, but can't access shared folders
I can create new folders on my Windows XP machine, set them to "shared".
On my Mac, I pick Finder → Go → Connect to Server → smb://192.168.1.4 → Connect → Name / Password.
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Bridging connections between two wireless notebooks
My apartment has a very weak public WiFi signal. my vista notebook is not connecting to this public WiFi, it says signal is weak, while my win7 notebook does connect and is working OK, so i wanted to ...
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Share an external USB Hard drive connected to XP Home
I want to share on my home network an external USB Hard drive connected to my netbook running XP Home.
My laptop and home PC (both running Win 7 Home Premium x64) can see the shared drive but cannot ...
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Can't drag and drop files from OS X Lion to Samba share
I have an Ubuntu box running a Samba share that I use to share files in my network. Since upgrading my mac to Lion I am unable to just drag and drop files from my mac into the mounted drives to copy ...
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Where are Windows 10 default user credentials for network logins stored?
When I try to access any file server in my network for the first time, Windows is always trying to connect automatically with a wrong username:
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Why did Samba shares stop working out of nowhere?
I'm hosting a home server using Ubuntu 22.04. I've been using Samba to share a drive with my Windows 10 system for a couple days now, today out of nowhere I can no longer access the drive through ...
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Local account trying to login to a NAS, without asking
I'm working in a factory where we have a bunch of Windows 10 machines with nearly identical configuration (just related to which machines they talk to). These machines do not have access to the ...
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Windows 10 forgets sharing settings
I have 2 computers with Windows 10 installed, and one of them has a shared drive that the other can access. The sharing works well. However, whenever I restart that computer, that drive is no longer ...
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When managing permissions via network on a remote PC, can't list or add users on the managed PC (no AD): What I am doing wrong?
This is not a duplicate question. Please read thoroughly and completely before closing it. Similar questions or their solutions either are related to AD or did not work. Having said this:
I have two ...
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How to mount network drive and make it permanent using command line in mac?
I want to mount my network drive to my local folder in mac/osx.
I normally use mount_smbfs command but it won't mount automatically after restart or logout. For permanent option in mac :
system ...
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How do I open/map a network drive share in Ubuntu (Nautilus)?
I just moved from Windows to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and I'm still adapting, I'm using it on my work laptop and I need to reach network shared folders.
In Windows I would just open the file explorer and ...
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"Multiple Connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed" when using same credentials
I've having trouble with Windows 10 and mounting multiple shares on a NAS on the network. Everytime I log in I get an error telling me that some network drives couldn't be mounted. If I then try to ...
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How to remotely access a Windows network share?
I have a Windows (10 Pro, if that matters) machine that has a network share. It (the network share) can be accessed over LAN. However, when I am out, I need a way to access the network share over WAN.
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"Delayed Write Failed" when saving to a mapped WebDAV folder in Windows 10
Problem
When saving to an existing file in the shared folder, the following error prompt is displayed every time.
Delayed Write Failed
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \&...
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Windows 7 - Scheduled task fails on Net Use \\server\share
Issue is with a Windows 7 system with latest updates, on a network with Windows 2008r2 server in an non-AD non-domain environment.
From File Explorer, or within an application, I can access \\server\...
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The correct way to redirect user folders to a network location
I run a Windows 2012 R2 server where much of my content is centralized (Photos, music, applications, shared documents, videos etc).
To point each PC to this server I change the user shell folders in ...
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Windows git "bad file descriptor" while commiting on OES Network Share
Upfront: I don't have much experience with Windows and hardly any with coorporate networks.
I'm trying to use git for version control during the development of my software. The company I work for is ...
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How to share a directory on a Linux machine to a Windows machine via NFS?
What are the full steps one needs to do to mount a directory from a Linux machine as a network drive on a Windows machine via NFS?
Incomplete answer:
Linux side:
Install the NFS server and ...
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Is it possible to prevent Windows Explorer from locking up when hovering a file during drag and drop above a network drive that is offline?
In Windows Explorer in the left sidebar I have a link to a network drive that is usually turned off. If I want to drag an drop a file from that window to another window, I have to take special care ...
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Share folder from batch file without asking for admin rights and UAC
I'd like to run a batch file on a remote computer which shares a given folder with everyone. It has to do this
without asking for admin rights in any way
without popping up UAC dialog
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Linux to Windows, can list smb shares but cannot mount
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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Windows control pannel sharing protected by password radio button
How i can manage 'Sharing protected by password'
option (radio button) in Windows control panel with powershell ?
I can modify the network profile type with :
Set-NetConnectionProfile -...
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What is the difference between a Network Short cut and a mounted share drive in Windows 10?
I've run into an oddity that I worked around, but can't explain. I'm hoping someone can.
Situation:
I have used the "Add network location" option to connect to an Ubuntu samba shared directory that ...
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mount network share over wmic
hostnames: srv1, srv2, srv3
When opening a powershell on srv2, I can mount a remote network drive on srv3 successfully with this command:
PS > hostname
srv2
PS > net use Z: \\srv3\c /user:...
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Fedora 26 won't show thumbnails for image and media files on network drives
I've just installed Fedora 26 on my laptop and everything works perfectly fine, just as expected, except one thing: thumbnails for images, videos and and audio files don't show up on network drives. ...
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I disabled SMB1. My network computers are no longer listed. What can I do?
Without working SMB 1 (e.g. by disabling it as suggested here), browsing for computers with shares using Windows Explorer will not work any longer (as expected). They are still available by using \\...
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Certain characters don't display properly when accessing OneDrive using WebDav
I use OneDrive to store many of the files I use often and rather than accessing it through the OneDrive application for PC or through www.onedrive.live.com, I map several of the OneDrive folders I use ...
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one computer on win 7 lan is slow to open other network shares
I've got a wee lan with 3 computers, each with a variety of shared folders.
All computers can successfully browse, read, and write to all the shared folders.
But one computer ("A") is annoying: When ...
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Windows 10 homegroup, "0x80070035 network path was not found" when accessing shared folders
I made a homegroup with a PC act as a "server". It shared folders to be accessed by another PCs in my homegroup.
A while ago, I updated this "server" PC to windows 10. But the problem occurred that ...
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Can't connect to network drive (attached to media player)
After a factory reset of my router, I can't connect anymore to the harddrives attached to my media player. Before this was no problem.
What I do
I try to connect to the drives by typing "\\192.168....
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How can I disable AFP to use SMB in the Finder by default in Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)?
When I connect to network volumes through the Finder in Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) it uses AFP instead SMB. As result I can't clean .AppleDouble files using BlueHarvest. I want the Finder to use SMB ...
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Shared Folder stop working after reboot
Ok i have this setup on my business :
PC1 is the server for the program we use, PC2 and PC3 use this program remotely via a shared folder in homegroup, the program needs a key that is stored in a usb ...
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Permission issue on network share drive
I am using Windows 7 on work domain network.
One of the shared drives is mapped automatically when I logon with my domain user.
However, when I try to create a file or directory from my workstation in ...
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