samba allows windows and 'nix computers to share files and printers with each other.
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How to I create an open smb share on a Windows 7 box?
I have a Windows 7 (Home Premium if that matters) box witch I want to set up a SMB share on for a network media player to play videos from. Ideally I would like this to be open so it can be copied ...
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Generate samba password hash programatically
I was wondering if there is a standard linux/ubuntu command to generate SMB password hashes to stdout. For the curious, I am wanting to manage a set of of usernames and passwords across multiple ...
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Backing up Mac OSX to Windows/Samba share
This should not be this hard ... is there an easy way to back up a mac to a windows share?
so far, I've tried the suggestions here, but am getting error:
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samba on linux, hosts allow doesn't work correctly
I hosts allow setting:
hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0/100
So I want every computer within my network to be able to access the server.
Now every IP is good with this setting, but 192.168.1.2 ...
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Samba outside local subnet?
I just transitioned my home server from and older desktop with two LAN ports (Server B) to a new low-power one (Server C) with only a single LAN. I get three IP addresses from my ISP and me and my ...
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Trying to connect to DNS-323 NAS, Getting “The Share Does Not Exist”
I'm having trouble connecting to my NAS all of a sudden. I have a samba share set up at smb://192.168.1.15. In the DNS-323 Admin, Network Access Settings, I have a share called Volume_1 in the SMB ...
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I can't open executable shared on my network
I just set up a new Windows 7 machine and I am having accessing files on my network. I had no problem accessing the network shares and browsing through the files, but when I try to actually open an ...
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mount Command Works, but fstab Version Fails - Samba Issue
I can mount a share with this command:
sudo mount -o username=user,password=pass //192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share
And in my fstab I have this line:
//192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share cifs ...
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Mount Network Share to a folder
With net use or regular ui "map network drive" I can mount network share to a drive letter (a volume) in Windows. But what if I want to mount it to a folder?
Say to d:\myUbuntuShares and not z:
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Samba transfers fail randomly without errors in Windows client
I just set up a new server for home use running Ubuntu 11.10. Installed the regular samba pkg and added a share through webmin. Seemed to work fine until i started transferring large quantities of ...
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Samba share automatically do username and password
Right now I'm connecting to network shares on my windows 7 machine with a command like sudo mount -o username=Robert //192.168.1.56/share /mnt/share and then it asks for my password. No big deal, but ...
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Correct user rights for Samba share
I have a server which I want to use to share files on a local network. Each user should have a own directory for himself as well as several shared directories:
FolderUser1 ... FolderUserN and ...
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Fedora 16 can connect to samba share using smbclient but not in nautilus 3.2.1
I have a machine running Ubuntu 11.10 Server acting as a Samba server to share my home directory. Everything works fine on my Windows 7 machine, but on my Fedora 16 laptop, if I use Nautilus to try to ...
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Basic linux based fileserver for home use, what file sharing protocol to use to serve Linux, MacOS and Windows filesharing clients?
I got an aging Gentoo Linux laptop which I am about to transform into a fileserver for our home users (to view our family photos, films etc). Clients to support will be Linux, MacOS and Windows.
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Samba drives in network keep disappearing from Windows
I have a home network with the Linux boxes with Samba shares and a couple of Windows 7 machines. For some reason the Samba shares disappear from time to time from the Windows' boxes and I can't figure ...
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Samba without central server?
I have found Samba to be a real pain to keep working at home (having half a dosen Windows & Linux computers)
Without a central server, samba keeps moving the domain master browser as computers ...
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CIFS over AnyConnect, Mac to Linux = Corrupt Files
I have a friend who works from home. He produces files that he needs to upload to the company's server. He uses a Cisco AnyConnect VPN to connect, and then drags/drops the files to the server. To ...
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SMB share and UNC name resolution windows 7
I have a samba share on a VM with CentOS inside my company network.
For authentication only one user was added, which works fine.
security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
Furthermore i ...
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samba on netgear WNR3700 ddwrt
I have the latest ddwrt firmware for netgear WNR3700.
Is there nmbd included? Router hostname is not listed in ms workgroup machines but I can access it by hostname and IP via explorer.
smb.conf
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Error running Samba share of fuse mount
I have created a fuse directory, and start it like this: ./myfuse /home/shared -o allow_other -o umask=022 -o nonempty -d
I can access it like this: ls -la /home/shared and it works fine.
Ok, turn ...
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Ubuntu & Fedora sharing with Samba
How can I share files between a desktop PC( with Ubuntu) and a notebook(with Fedora) in the same network using samba? I tried to configure samba to both of them, but nothing?
On Fedora I configured ...
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Mount samba share without root access
I have access to a linux machine, but not root access. I can access a samba share through smbclient. I'd like to be able to mount this share so I can access it from within Matlab. Normally, if I ...
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How to resolve NetBios names on Mac OS X?
I know there's smbutil lookup command, but I would like to know how to get it in the system lookup, similar to what is possible on Linux by modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf
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Add custom network device icons in Mac OS X Finder?
Mac OS X Finder is smug enough to display any non-Mac device as a picture of a PC with a BSOD, but I'm wondering if it's possible to add other devices, so my Ubuntu machine is detected and has a ...
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Which options are required for a simple Linux user?
I am setting up a Samba server on Ubuntu and need to create users on the server. However I am not sure which options I need to set with useradd in order for the user to work.
Does the samba user ...
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Drobo-FS config files exhibiting input/ouput error
I have a Drobo-FS with DropBear installed via DroboApps which allows me ssh access into the linux operating system which powers the Drobo-FS.
The Drobo-FS file system has a directory which looks like ...
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Some directories on my samba share with identical permissions are not visible
I have a samba share to a Centos 6 server being mounted on Windows 7. In the shared directory, two or three directories are not visible and can't be navigated to manually either. These directories ...
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How can I prohibit executable files in a Samba share?
I want to setup a Samba share for file sharing in my intranet.
Is there any way to prohibit some kinds of files (e.g *.exe) from being uploaded to the share folder?
How can I force the user to ...
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Samba Share (Debian Squeeze) OSX Finder does not recognize free space after upgrade to Lion
The Samba share is on a software RAID and mounted under /media/share. By default Finder reports the free disk space (in the status bar) from / but there is not much space left on this partition so I ...
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How can you enable SMB2.0 on a router running DD-WRT?
I think the steps are something like:
Install DD-WRT on a router with an external hard-drive
Install Optware to get Samba
Upgrade to Samba 3.6 (the link shows Samba 3.5, but using the NSLU2 optware ...
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Linux - Network Sharing a local NTFS usb drive
I have an external hard drive formated in NTFS which I would like to be able to access by the network. I want to make a network share out of it.
I also have a Debian machine running in my house and I ...
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Windows XP/Server 2008 fail to connect to Samba
I have a CentOS 5 machine with Samba 3.5.2 installed. I'm trying to connect from both Windows XP and Windows Server 2008, and I'm getting nowhere. I currently have Samba configured to NTLMv2 only ...
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Samba and Windows 7
I built a new computer with the intention of it being primarily a home file server. Here is my setup:
one desktop with Windows 7 64 HP
one laptop with Windows 7 64 HP
one desktop with Kubuntu 11.10 ...
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Can Samba be configured to have a different password?
I need Samba to use a different set of credentials for home shares.
The shell login password is different from the Samba login password.
I have disabled the unix password sync option, but the Samba ...
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Best Linux Distro for DHCP and Samba server? [closed]
I'm going to be running a PC as a DHCP server, the client will get assigned an IP from it. I will then have another Linux machine where I will set up a Samba server to communicate with the Windows ...
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Windows 7 “Could not reconnect all network drives” on boot
Windows 7 won't reconnect to my network drives on startup.
Once it is done booting opening Windows Explorer and clicking each share will mount them.
Windows 7 Enterprise N Service Pack 1
I have ...
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Moving Files internally on a Linux Server via Samba [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Moving files on samba-connected NAS
I have a problem with my Linux Server I just set up.
I installed Samba and configured it and it all works fine.
I access it from a ...
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Slow Samba / Share File Access on Lan - how to find out what's going on
Here at home I have a small lan with basically all devices in the main home office being connected via ethernet / cable to one gigabit switch, wlan devices over an apple airport extreme (this one also ...
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Samba transfer over the Internet is slower than expected
I am trying to transfer files from a PC at home running Windows Server 2008 R2 to my computer here at college, running Windows 7 Ultimate.
To test this, I tried connecting to my home PC via SMB with ...
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Sync offline files after server name change
I was using a samba share from a linux server mapped as a drive on a Windows laptop. I'd enabled offline files on it.
The server was unavailable for a while, so a few changes have been made in the ...
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Can't connect to my Samba server
I can't seem to connect to my Samba server on my Mac anymore. It used to work perfectly fine, but I recently changed my internet service provider and I think that may be an issue. I say that because ...
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Samba, CentOS and OSX
I have a Linux server on the web with root/terminal access.
I am trying to make samba work on that machine, so I can have a drive on my MacOSX box mapped to a shared folder on the server.
I have ...
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How do I get Windows 7 to see Ubuntu 10.10 shares?
My Windows 7 computer can't see the folders I shared on Ubuntu laptop, the other way round works fine and I can open files shared in Windows from Ubuntu.
I have already tried to install and configure ...
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Cannot get Windows 7 connect to samba without issues
I've a problem with Windows 7 Samba/Ubuntu Server connectivity.
When I first start the Windows machine, I can map the network drive without issues.
But after a while of inactivity it disconnects and ...
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samba share in windows 7 home - doesn't show up at all
I've setup a simple linux machine with samba 3 on it.
I configured samba share to allow guest access. So no usernames or passwords required.
From my ubuntu laptop I can access share without ...
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Browser link to Windows share in Ubuntu and OS X
In Windows, I am able to create a bookmark in any browser to a file on a network share, like so:
file://network/path/to/file/example.htm
This works well in Windows because it avoids needing a ...
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Debian Samba server reports free size of root drive, not all drives
I am running a Samba server on a Debian box. It works fine; Windows can read and write to it just fine, but there's one issue.
The folder I'm sharing over Samba (/var/samba) is stored on my main ...
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CUPS - use credentials from login to pass to samba server
Everytime I print, CUPS asks me for authentication information to print to a SAMBA shared printer. Is it possible to pass my credentials to the SAMBA share directly from whatever I used to ...
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How can I configure Samba to share (read/write) any folder with root permissions?
I have a CentOS 5 VirtualBox guest on a Win7x64 host. I am attempting to setup a read/write share a directory owned by root with my Windows host using Samba, but I'm having no luck after running ...
