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Is Windows simple file sharing safe?
Windows (in this case XP) allows me to simply "share a folder" via its SMB protocol, and I can access it via Linux quite nicely (with Samba), no questions asked.
That's what bothers me, it just does ...
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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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Linux: Browsing Windows file shares with a tree view
In the Thunar file manager, tree view does not expand for 'Network' section even once I click device name,
It is possible to browse .gvfs, but it has problems with file deletion ('can not find ...
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Can access Windows share by IP or FQDN address but not by hostname
One of the lab computers at the school I administer is not able to access a any shares under the \\ad\data$ directory. I can access it from any other computer on the network. If I use the IP ...
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SMB shortcut in finder
When I connect to a SMB share I get an icon on my desktop which works great.
Is it possible to have the same shortcut in my Finders Sidebar?
Currently I only have the SMB host there, which means it ...
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Windows 7 Symlink to network drive root
My Ubuntu server provides storage to my Windows 7 workstation through the use of SMB and network drives. One symlink currently links from a network drive to my iTunes library folder. Within that ...
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Slow upload from Ubuntu-server on Gbit-LAN
I've installed a server at home to have as a fileserver due to limitation of an iMac and USB-ports (too many external harddrives is a pain in the ass).
I'm using both Samba and Proftpd to manage files ...
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File copied over the network differs from original
Having moved quite large amount of data (~1TB) over the network from one storage to another, I noticed the file on target system differs from the original.
Setup:
PC (Windows 7 64) with Windows ...
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Can't access network share using IP address of the server
I'm facing a strange issue on Windows XP SP3: I can't browse a network share when using the IP address of the server – while I can, using the server's name.
See example below:
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Accessing X$ share on a personal computer
I need to access some of my hard drives on my desktop PC from my laptop without setting a public share folder. I run Windows 7 Ultimate on both
When I try to connect to \mycomputer\e$ it asks me for ...
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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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Cant open file for writing with cifs mount
Hi I have mounted my QNAP on to a drive on my ubuntu machine using the following fstab entry
//<ip-address>/Documents/Aly /home/aly/Documents cifs ...
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troubleshooting Windows XP and smb
I have problem with mapping smb network shares to windows XP (net use and Windows Explorer). In LAN I have two Windows XP computers. One of them (let's name it XP_1) can map share without problems. ...
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Share only a single folder using SMB
I want to share my "My Videos" folder using Windows's built in SMB. The problem is that when I decide to share my video folder and check it on another device, the path always is:
networkname > ...
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Can a file change size when the transfer protocol changes?
I am very curious about what I have just found happening on my computers.
I have set up SyncBackPro to synchronize a music folder from my home desktop to my laptop using Windows network share (SMB). ...
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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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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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rsync from HFS+ (OSX) to NFS (FreeNAS) with special characters
I have inadvertently created a mess. I have a drive mounted on a Mac running 10.5.8 and a FreeNAS 0.7.2 box. I had been mounting the FreeNAS share on OSX via SMB, but recently learned that I was doing ...
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how do I connect to an smb share?
I apologize if this is a stupid question.
I have a smb share set up (smb://a.b.c.d/sharename) that I am attempting to connect to from windows. I'd like to either connect directly using a browser or ...
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Windows shared drive permissions when mounted on Mac as SMB
I am sharing a drive on windows xp (64-bit) over the network and it is set such that the group 'Everyone' has read and modify permissions. (no full control).
From the mac, when I connect to server as ...
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Files edited through gvfs using Eclipse and NetBeans getting corrupted. gedit using smb works fine
I'm facing a strange problem. My development machine was recently moved to Ubuntu. When I edit files situated in a network server (LAN) and then save, the files are getting corrupted. In all cases a ...
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How to share a Windows 7 Library while preserving its 'one-ness'?
My media server with all my movies is running Windows 7. I have two folders on different drives I want to share, E:\Movies and F:\Movies, so I've combined them with a library called "Movies," so I can ...
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To Build A Computer or To Buy A Computer For A Small Business? [closed]
I'm currently a consultant for a small non-profit business.
They are currently in need of 2 new computers, the total number of computers they have is around 10 or so.
The point being I'm wondering ...
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Temporarily mount Windows share via cmd line? (Ubuntu 11.04)
What is a simple way to (temporarily) mount a windows share from within Ubuntu 11.04 via the command line?
Basically, I'd like the path /home/myuser/windowsbox to map to a windows share. (Need to ...
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Cannot access SMB Shares from OpenIndiana server on OSX Lion?
I've clean installed a copy of OpenIndiana 151a (latest).
I've imported my pools
I've run through these directions http://blogs.oracle.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode
I can ...
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Extremely slow network directory subfolder listing from QNAP NAS in OS X
Having an issue where I have a folder on a QNAP NAS (TS-439P II+) with over 68,000 subfolders within it.
I can browse it quickly and almost instantaneously within Windows 7 via samba, however in OSX ...
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How to automount SMB shared network drives in Mac OS X Lion
In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Apple has replaced good old SMB support. Now I can't auto connect to my shared (SMB) network drives. Workarounds? Or Impossible?
In OS X Snow Leopard, I could automatically ...
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How does a windows client (XP) access an SMB share on OS X Server (10.6 snow leopard)?
I work in a small office in which the server and most of the work stations run Mac OS X 10.6. We are using OS X Server 10.6 for file sharing. I am not an official IT guy, but there is no one else to ...
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How can I find the IP of a Windows host from OS X?
Is there an easy way from the OS X (Lion) command line or Finder to determine the IP address of a Windows machine on the same subnet (in a home network)? Assume the machine itself is not easily ...
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How to access C$ share in a network?
Considering I have admin access to a machine, how can I remotely access the default C$ share in Windows XP and Windows 7?
Edit: This is not a domain, it's a single machine that I need to access
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Raise the SMB session limit in Windows 7 Pro
Is it possibble to increase the number of allowed SMB sessions to more than 20 under Windows 7 Enterprise SP1?
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Network external hard drive reports not enough free space
I'm running an Ubuntu (10.04) Samba server on a local network. The server has a 50GB internal drive with only 24MB free. I've shared a folder /samba from that drive. I also have a 1TB NTFS external ...
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smb transfers slow between 2008r2 and 10.6.8
GB Network performance is slow with SMB(45MB/s) compared to FTP (105 MB/s).
Any hint how to improve?
Thank you.
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Can't access local SMB share via DNS name on Windows Server 2008 R2
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 with single network adapter. For this adapter I created two IP addresses and registered DNS aliases for each one:
1.2.3.4 => app1.rnd.example.com
1.2.3.5 => ...
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How can I AFP to work on Netgear WNDR3700?
The story is this:
I just upgraded to Mac OS Lion and as it turns out it won't work with my Samba share in the way Snow Leopard used to, for TimeMachine backups. After a bit of Googling I found that ...
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Unable to access server/share by name, IP works
I am running a small network, consisting mostly of Windows XP clients. I'm moving my server from Debian/Samba/WINS to OpenIndiana. Now I cannot access the server by its name, although I can by IP:
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Looking for tool to show IP packets (and do analysis) sent/received from/to my machine (want to debug why can't mount network drive)
fiddler2 comes close but this only deals with web browsers it seems.
I need this tool to debug why I can't mount a common standard network/NAS drive (e.g. via SMB/SAMBA) in Windows 7 Pro and Home.
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Windows 7 offline files - work temporarily offline even if network connection works
Sometimes I am connected via VPN to a network containing the server where files are stored which are cached by Windows offline files feature.
Sometimes the connection works good and working this way ...
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Looking for definitive answer to accessing a network drive/NAS/SMB drive via Windows 7 HOME and Windows 7 Professional. Is it possible and how?
I want to be able to access my Lacie 2Big network drive in Windows 7 Explorer. I have a machine with Windows 7 Home and one with Windows 7 Professional.
Neither Windows 7, home or pro, can access the ...
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Getting SMB file shares working over a PPTP VPN
I'm having issues getting SMB file shares working over a PPTP VPN.
The server setup consists of a security device (DrayTek V3300) which passes the PPTP authentication to a SBS2003 server running ...
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Windows Share Permissions VS NTFS Permissions
Say I have a folder on Server1 called folder1 and I share folder1 and the Share permissions for that folder allow all users to read only, and then i create a subfolder in folder1 lets call it ...
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how to move existing time machine backup to smb
I have a 2 TB external usb hard drive. I have partitioned it as 1TB with NTFS and 1Tb with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I have Time machine backups in my mac partition.
I am planning to make the ...
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Specify Samba account when connecting from Windows to OS X
I am trying to connect to a shared directory on my Macbook which is shared using SMB. This directory is only shared on 1 account, so it is not publicly available.
When I try to connect to this share ...
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How to list all files in a Windows SMB network share
Given a single SMB network share (for example, \\server\\SHARED_FOLDER), I want to recursively list all the files, including those in the subdirectories (like find(1)).
I would prefer to do it in ...
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Force Finder to log in as Guest to a SMB share
I have a QNAP NAS that offers a few SMB shares. As I'm in a trusted environment, my shares are accessible as guest rather than with a combination of username and password.
Problem
Now, when I click ...
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OSX / Samba - How do I automatically remount / reconnect to drives that have been disconnected?
Is there a simple method to automatically reconnect a network drive that has been disconnected due to network failure or some other issue. I have a batch job setup that periodically copies files to a ...
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OS X smbfs Mount Shows Incorrect Permission, Won't Take chmod
I'm doing development on OS X while my actual code lives on a remote CentOS box that I have mounted as a local share (smbfs). Some of my files are not marked as writable and need to be toggled when I ...
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Adding network share as the system account breaks Win7 backup to network
(On Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1)
So I've been using Win7 backup to \192.168.0.100\Backup\main-desktop\ for awhile without issue.
Yesterday I tried to setup crashplan to synchronize my dropbox folder and a ...
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Windows XP “Run Command” not connecting to network drives
This is a recent problem; I have 5 PC's on a home network and two PC's (desktop and laptop) that now have the following problem.
To connect to an unmapped network drive, I would typically click Start ...
