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Abbreviation for "Server Message Block"; an application-layer network protocol for sharing files and printers, popular in Windows environments

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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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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 ...
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Can't a chm file be opened on network-drive?

I have a chm file. The file opens well on my local machine. But on network-drive connected SMB or SAMBA, it doesn't work. Why? It just shows "Navigation to the webpage was canceled" in right pane.
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How-To define an Alias-Name for a given Fileserver?

I'm building a testsystem and want to use the servernames like in the productive environment. For tcp-traffic i made an entry in the hosts-file but that seems not to work for fileservers (smb). How ...
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OneDrive SMB access

Is there a way to access OneDrive via SMB? I mean, for creating a local or network drive in Windows for accessing the cloud storage through. Maybe through other layers offered by another software? ...
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Connect to SMB on Microsoft 365 managed user account

In our small (6 people) company, we use Microsoft 365 to manage users and their MS Office licenses. Users log in to computers using PIN code to an account configured in our company domain - a very ...
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Windows 10 does not show "Always available offline" for my SMB network drive

I'm on Windows 10. I have connected a drive shared by a Raspberry Pi via SMB as a network drive. Access via Windows File Explorer works both for reading and writing. However, I can't seem to make it &...
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How to limit windows/smb share network speed

I have shared some of my files like Movies and Songs on local Network in my hostel, so that my friends can watch those movies. Now sometime it happens that when someone is copying the shared files ...
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Static UNC "shortcut" to network folder?

Is there a way to create a path like \\this_never_changes\static that maps to some arbitrary network location, in the same fashion as mapping a drive letter? I can't just map a drive letter, since I ...
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How to properly mount SMB drive on demand in Linux?

I mostly use my laptop, and when I'm at home I like to be able to access the SMB shares on my NAS. While I can easily do so in Thunar (I use XFCE) by simply typing smb://nas.address/share into the ...
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SMBclient put file does not exist

I am trying to write a cron script which will copy a file from an SMB share to my local linux folder. I am connecting to the share like this... /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\myserver\\myshare It connects ...
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User Explicitly for Windows Network Share

Is it possible to create a User that is exclusively used for Network Share? Why don't I just use my account? It's because I want to be able to share the account with specific people, without fear of ...
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Does CIFS / SMB use multiple connections?

Does CIFS / SMB use multiple connections? I am wondering this because transferring multiple files on the same computer seems to be limited to one NIC link and not more. I have a 10G on the client ...
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The account is not authorized to log in from this station

I'm using Samba Version-4.1.6-Ubuntu. I can connect to it fine from Mac OS 10.x and Win 8 & 8.1. As soon as installed the Win 10 technical preview i get the message The account is not authorized ...
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When I try to access a SMB mounted folder from inside a Vagrant CentOS Virtual box on a Windows 8.1 system, my shell locks up

I'm running Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.10 on Windows 8.1 and inside I'm running CentOS 6.5. I have a /windows mounted on my Windows machine through SMB. Normally I use the /vagrant vboxfs file system, but ...
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Samba asking for password when it shouldn't

I just updated Samba on my Arch Linux machine to 4.0.5 and now it is asking for password even when it shouldn't, and didn't do before the update. This is my smb.conf: https://gist.github.com/eaxexe/...
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OSX AppleScript mount SMB Share using the Guest user

How do I mount a SMB share using the guest user? I know how to do it with an AFP share: mount volume "afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%20AUTHENT@NAS_AB01(AFP)._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Images" How do you do it ...
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Write to NTFS drive mounted with SMB in OS X Mountain Lion

I wanna be able to write to an NTFS drive mounted over SMB. I've tried following this guide but when I run diskutil info /Volumes/inetpub (inetpub being the name of the drive) I get Could not find ...
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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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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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Win XP needs reboot to access protected samba share

I tried to find an answer to this question, but couldnt. Im new at configuring my samba shares, so there's a lot of things I dont know about them. Anyway, what I want to do is have a couple of public ...
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Windows XP File Sharing Technical Details

Can anyone point me to a good technical article on how files and printer sharing works in Windows XP. Googling hasn't been very successful.Thanks
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Why is a network share only accessible via IP address?

PCH is the Popcorn Hour A-110 SMB share. I am in a domain and I am running a DNS server. I am using a M1n1wall running Pfsense with DNS forwarding to the domain server. DNS resolution does not seem to ...
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Mounting smb share on Ubuntu 10.10 fails

Trying to mount a smb share in Ubuntu 10.10 just fails :(. I have used the following command: sudo mount -t cifs //share /mnt/smb/ Looking inside kernel error messages I can see this: [11502....
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Mount ftp as removeable drive

I am trying to achieve wireless Sync to my android device using doubleTwist. With SwiFTP I can connect to my phone wirelessly and using programs like NetDrive, I can mount it to windows 7. One issue, ...
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Windows 7 can't reconnect network drives on startup

I have this annoying problem that Windows 7 won't reconnect to my network drives on startup. The shares are on an Ubuntu machine. I've tried every possible solution I've found: Enable password on ...
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Bonjour for Windows vs. SMB for printer sharing

My landlord would like to print to her printer connected to her Mac from Windows machines in her house. (I'm unsure of what versions of windows, but I assume Vista or 7.) Looking at these docs ...
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How to export a VirtualBox appliance to a NAS?

I'm using VirtualBox 3.1.2 (r56127) on Linux (Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit). I'm trying to use Export Appliance utility to clone my virtual machines over local network using SMB protocol to NAS. I decided to ...
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SVN commit error - code checked out to Windows XP drive mapped to an Ubuntu Samba share

I'm having a bit of trouble trying to commit changes to SVN that are on a mapped drive - the drive is mapped to a Samba share on a Ubuntu (9.04) server. Here's the error I'm getting: I have full ...
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Am I affected by the Windows Vista SMBv2 Flaw?

I have read about a new security flaw in Windows Vista and SMBv2. What is it and how does it affect me? What is SMBv2?
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Unable to connect to a shared disk on Windows using a Microsoft account

I installed Windows from scratch on a new PC and logged in using a Microsoft account. I shared a disk but was unable to open it from another computer in my network using the same Microsoft account. I ...
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How to access local SaMBa share from WAN

I have a local machine running OpenMediaVault. There's a SMB share set up on it which is accesible from LAN. Sometimes there's a need for me to access data on that share from outside of my LAN. What ...
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Allow public access to Samba share without allowing insecure guest access in Windows

A few years ago, due to security concerns, Microsoft disabled by default the ability to connect as a guest to SMB shares. In my organization, I have a few shares which I want to be available for ...
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Incremental copy of log file content

I have a couple of log-files, growing one line at a time, as log files do. The files are available via SMB network share. I want to periodically copy these files. Since the network is rather slow and ...
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Root squashing for NFS and SMB clarification

Root squashing means that when I try to access a directory that has it enabled, I won't be able to use my root permissions because it will be remapped to a nfsnobody user or whatever user is specified....
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Windows 11 login impossibile via RDP e SMB

I've got a Windows 11 that rejects all RDP and SMB logins. I use a Microsoft account and pc is not domain joined. It logs the following event. Log Name: Security Source: Microsoft-Windows-...
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How to limit inbound SMB bandwidth?

Prologue: This is not a duplicate question. There are many questions and answers about that subject, but I haven't found a single one which deals with inbound traffic and provides a reasonable answer. ...
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Windows 10: Getting the SMB version in use for a specific remote host?

I have set up a SAMBA server on Ubuntu. I set the minimum protocol to SMB2, maximum to SMB3. Now, I can connect to the shared path from Windows, and I want to know which protocol (SMB2 or SMB3) Window ...
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Force SMB3 when possible?

Background I have an environment with 5000 or so workstations, 1000 or so servers. All of my file share servers are running Windows Server 2012 or higher, and thus support SMBv3. About half of my ...
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How can I access a directory shared by macOS 10.14 from Windows 98 SE?

On macOS I have enabled "File Sharing" in the "Sharing" section of the "System Preferences" application. It says "File Sharing: On" and "Other users can access shared folders on this computer, and ...
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Time Machine backup on Samba share fails with errors 512, 20 & 14

I've set up a Samba share for Time machine backups according to this guide. My Mac recognizes the share correctly, but the initial backup fails with the generic error message that no Backup could be ...
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Fresh Installs of Windows 10 Break SMB1 Scanning to Shared Folders

On the latest Windows 10, I cannot do SMB scans to shared folders from any of our various network scanners at multiple companies. If you freshly install the latest Windows 10, it breaks backwards ...
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How to fix Windows 10 incoming SMB session being RST'ed

I have computer A and B, both Windows 10 1703 (15063) with all updates installed up to now. I want to view A's SMB shares from B, but B says it cannot connect to A. Further investigation shows A is ...
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sftp and SMB fail in Dolphin but work from console

I'm running KDE on openSUSE Leap 42, and I can connect to an sftp server just fine, from the console: sftp <user>@<server> However, when I try the equivalent thing in Dolphin: sftp://&...
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Address LAN computers by name over Open VPN

Using OpenVPN client on Windows 7 laptop to access my home network. Workgroup on the laptop is "MyWorkgroup". Home network: Wifi router on 192.168.1.1 - Linksys EA6500 with USB hard drive plugged ...
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Is it possible to connect to an SMB server without a VPN

This is something i've been struggling with recently, and after the number of other stack overflow and super user questions i've gone through, most people turn to a vpn. what i want to know is: is it ...
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How is the FID generated for a SMB “Create AndX Request?”

I see in the traces while accessing a network share, there are multiple CreateAndX requests (which opens the folders) with an FID associated with them. However, some of them don’t and they get a ...
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How can I keep copying after a "NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION" error with smbclient?

I have a directory of files that need to be copied every night as a backup. I am using 'smbclient' to backup the files to a Linux machine but I am seeing an issue where if a file is locked the entire ...
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Is it possible to mount VHD image over smb with ftp backend?

Let's say I mount remote ftp server folder to a local folder using fuse. Then I setup samba and create a share pointing to local ftp folder. Can I place a VHD image on that share and then mount it in ...
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Can't see or browse SMB file shares depending on the router

TL;DR Version I can't browse the SMB shares on my fileserver from some of my devices; if I use a new router it works. FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT! The setup I have two routers, a D-Link DSL 2370R and a ...
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