samba is an re-implementation of the smb network sharing protocols, which are used in Windows for file and printer sharing.
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Samba guest accounts and the “guest account = ” configuration option
I'm having difficulty understanding Samba's guest account permissions. I set the guest account to use my main account on the server but I can only ever seem to be able to modify files if the ...
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Joining another domain from ubuntu samba
I'm fairly new to linux and am trying to use samba to join another primary domain controller. I was given only the IP of the primary domain controller and the login id & PW.
Assuming I've only ...
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md5sums differ between CIFS and NFS
I'm doing some research on 'cribbage' an Ubuntu 10.04 box which connects to 'prodcsamba01' via CIFS:
cribbage $ mount | grep prep
//prodcsamba01/prepfsnr on /prep type cifs ...
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Samba + Centos (Share not working)
I've done this a few times already, but for some reason this time it's not working.
I have a folder called ruby (root:root - 0777) on /home/placona
I'm trying to see this folder from my WindowsXP ...
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Force folder creation permissions to nobody:nobody using samba
I have tried force user = nobody but then the users don not have access to their shares.
When a user creates a folder/file i want the the group to be nobody:nobody
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Router + file server build [closed]
I am trying to build an always-on router + file server system that will serve as a (wired) router and as a file server that I will access from my two Windows (7/XP) machines. I am not worried about ...
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Can't copy files with 'additional permissions' to ext4 drive — files that have @ after permissions, like -rwxrwxrwx@
I am copying files from Snow Leopard to a mounted ext4 share via Samba, that's on a Fedora machine. Some files cannot be copied, and give this error:
The operation can’t be completed because you don’t ...
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Win7 Mounting network drives depending on network
Is there a way of mounting certain drives with NET USE only when you're connected to certain networks? I use this particular laptop at home and at work. When I am at home and connect to the network ...
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Mapped network drive unavailable on reboot until viewed in windows explorer (windows 7)
I have an ubuntu 11.04 machine with a samba share, which I access from a Windows 7 machine. Both have same username and password. The network drive is mapped and remembered on Windows. When I reboot ...
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RAID5 + Samba Woes
I'm in the process of setting up a brand-new CentOS 6.2 server. The boot, swap and root partitions live on a 320GB SSD, and my archive files are on a 9,000 GB RAID array.
Problem is that if I setup ...
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Issue pushing file from linux to windows with smbclient
I have a file located on my linux box that is generated by a python script, the file is dropped inside of the /root/ directory
My bash script looks like so:
#!/bin/bash
# Run the HR Data feed
cd ...
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iPhone app to play music from samba share
I have a samba server I use as a media center and I was wondering if there was an iPhone app to play music from it over wifi. It can be free or $$.
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Windows shared folders through VPN and Ubuntu
I use Ubuntu and i need to access to the Windows shared folders of a remote LAN network through VPN. I connect successfully to the VPN through a DDNS service (no-ip.org) but i can't see the folders in ...
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Missing step in setting up samba share on Centos 6
I have trouble setting up file and printer sharing on a Centos server (through Samba).
Networking and general config are quite fine, as both accessing cups web management and a website served by ...
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Windows 7 connect to Lion file sharing
Trying to access my Mac from a Windows 7 computer, I fail with the infamous error 86 incorrect password.
Now this appears to be a well-known problem with countless threads on the internet giving as ...
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Virtualbox Ubuntu 11.10 Server Guest + Windows 7 Host: Access Guest Files from Host
I have a Ubuntu 11.10 Server Guest machine on Virtualbox and a Windows 7 Host.
I can use SSH to connect and use VIM to edit development files, but ideally, I would like to use a Windows text editor ...
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Samba: Connected clients unaffected by group/share/user access changes
We are trying to solve what we perceive as a problem with the behavior of our Samba server. Please understand we are not claiming this is a bug in Samba. It is simply different from the behavior we ...
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Creating Samba shares on Windows
I am not very familiar with how SMB and Samba differ. I am using an app on my iPhone that connects to Samba shares to access and play files (AcePlayer) and it seems to not be able to see my Windows ...
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What's wrong with my smb.conf and why can't Windows access the share?
I'm trying to use Samba to share files between Windows XP and Ubuntu.
I edited the smb.conf and added the workgroup name and netbios name. This is the part that has problems:
[Myshare]
comment = ...
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How do I access a git repository on a samba share?
I have a Samba share set up that I'd like to put a git repository on. I've tried searching google for the best way to use git on a Samba share, but it seems difficult to find anything on doing this ...
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Shared folder on mac: mounted on ubuntu but not writable
I've got a mac (called 'maxw-hackbook') with a folder (called 'work') which i've shared, making it "read & write" by me, "staff" and everyone. I've then mounted it to a folder on my ubuntu ...
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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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Can't reach Qnap NAS from Windows 7
I have a Qnap 219P NAS, one MacBook Pro, one Windows XP machine and one Windows 7 machine connected to the same network.
I've enabled both AFP and SMB networks services on the NAS.
Connecting to the ...
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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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OS X File Permissions, File Sharing, and Git
Here's my setup:
Mac Mini running Snow Leopard
Sharing a folder with a bunch of code in it. The folder and everything in it is set for read/write access for both the main user and the "staff" group
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How to compress smb?
I have setup a media center, running arch linux. I have also installed samba on it and have created users for all my roommates.
One of the biggest problems that we've faced is that if all of us are ...
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Installing Samba
I am setting up Samba on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) but the /etc/init.d/samba file is not being created. I've done this before and haven't had this problem. I uninstalled samba, samba-common, smbclient, ...
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Creating files through mounted Samba share makes them executable by user
I created a Samba share on my Ubuntu virtual machine and mounted the share on my Windows 7 host using net use W: \\blog.localhost\blog. When editing or creating any file it sets the perms to ...
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Setting up a file share for a lab of Windows PCs with Samba or NFS
I am trying to setup a "shared drive" for our lab on a university campus. I installed Debian on a spare PC we have here and the "clients" are all using Windows 7 Professional.
Ideally, they all want ...
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How to automatically move files to the network
I'm looking for an open source solution to a piece of Windows software that will monitor a folder on a Linux server via Samba and copy them to the local machine. I need this to run on a virtual ...
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Windows 7 - Samba Shares - multiple credentials
My home setup has a linux server which serves several shares, each with a different user & password.
i.e.: public, user1, user2
I can connect to my shares individually via \server\public with ...
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Mount a SMB share's subfolder as a drive in OS X Lion
In Snow Leopard I was able to mount a subfolder of a Samba share directly using a path like the following in the "Connect to Server" Finder dialog:
smb://someserver/someshare/where/i/really/want/togo
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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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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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Set proper rights for sshfs mountpoint so it can be shared with samba
I have a domain hoster that provides access via SSH.
My platforms are:
Gentoo 2.6.36-r5
Windows (XP/Vista/7)
I work on my Windows, I use Gentoo to do all the magic Windows can't do.
Therefore I ...
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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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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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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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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 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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Why isn't this smbmount attempt working?
I can successfully access one of our local samba shares, which is on a windows pc (called marina) as follows:
$ sudo /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\marina\\resource_library <my password>
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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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Scaling home/enthusiast server setup
I'm looking to maintain a home server of media (videos,music,etc.) with some RAID(fallback or redundancy) support that I can update relatively easy over the years.
My high level plan is to buy 1U or ...
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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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TextMate very slow on Samba Drive
I loaded an entire Samba drive as a TextMate project.
Every single time I lose cursor of TextMate to do something else like checking the web browser... and then try to click on TextMate again it ...
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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 ...
