Questions tagged [smb]

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

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SMB client don't send session setup request after the negotiation

I have three machines, windows 7 machine, some windows 10 machines and an windows server 2008 r2 as file server. Now in my situation: 1. The windows 7 can access sharing files from windows 10 and ...
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Can't access a folder on my Windows SMB share

I've been sharing a folder I have on my Windows 10 PC, which has many movies. The idea is to be able to watch them on my TV. Until now, I had no issues with sharing. I bought a new portable hard ...
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File Sharing stop working after installing Hide.Me vpn on Windows 10

On 2 computers where I installed Hide.Me vpn, the file sharing stopped working immediately. One 2 months ago and the other last week. The last one add all windows update as soon as it came out. I ...
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Win XP shares not accessible from one Win 10 PC

I have a LAN with a bunch of different devices, Windows XP, Windows 10 Home & Pro, Linux and NAS. All of these can access each other's shares, except for one: the laptop running Win 10 Home cannot ...
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Samba clients can't establish new connections without Internet connectivity on server

I've encountered this strange issue where SMB clients can't establish a local connection with the SMB server if the server does not have an Internet connection. The local connection also slows down ...
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How can I create and edit files from a Windows file share on Linux (CentOS)?

I have a Windows shared drive that I have mounted on my CentOS 7 machine using the instructions by Red Hat that I would now like to create and edit files on. However I must be elevated to create and ...
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Update old Links to Windows Shares

Hello Windows network professionals, assume that we have got a Windows network of over 1000 users has been running for over 10 years. The users have generated data and located them on different ...
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Windows10 dynamic virtual folders controlled via an program

Hi is it possible to dynamically redirect an folder for example E:\1\2\3 to run (a.exe -dir E:\1\2\3) witch will then redirect to C:/Data/Example if not I think it shound be possible by running an smb ...
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Can I install a different Samba client on OSX Lion?

Right now I am using the standard OSX Lion Samba Client to connect to my Windows 2008 Samba Shares. Is there an alternative client to the one that ships with OSX Lion? I am experiencing software ...
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Samba does not work after upgrade

I am migrating a SuSE server to a new virtual environment. This also includes upgrading to a new version of samba. The old version of smbd is 2.2.8, the new has 3.6.3. The "new" SuSE is SLES 11.4. ...
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How to mount SMB share that can be accessed by anyone on Mac OS X El Capitan

How can I mount a SMB network share that can be accessed by anyone? Here's what I tried: Using mount command me$ sudo mkdir /Multimedia me$ sudo chmod 777 /Multimedia me$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o nosuid,...
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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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Report disk usage through SMB server

I have an SMB server (4.5.12-Debian) with several hard drives (all NTFS) attached as my local network backup storage. I would like to be able to see the current disk usage (free space / total space) ...
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How to mount a NAS from command line with a space in the username

I am trying to mount a SMB network drive from my Mac terminal. The user id is firstname lastname with a space in between. I have tried all sorts of combinations but none of these are working. ...
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How do i renable connecting a network drive using SMB1 since Windows 1709

I find today that I can no longer mount my Netgear ReadyNas drive because apparently it is using SMB1 and Windows 10 have disabled since release 1709. This is very problemaic because I need to access ...
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Windows 10 PC unable to access shared folder on NAS

My Windows 10 PC is unable to access a shared folder of my NAS. The NAS does not appear under Network and when I try to enter the address \\mynas or \\<ip> I just have an error message "...
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Set hostname as a variable in smb.conf file

I want to enter a variable that represent "netbios name" in smb.conf file. I can set "home dir" as a variable with use %U, what can I use to do same thing to "netbios name"?
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How to encrypt my NAS in a convenient manner?

I am currently setting up my NAS, which is running Ubuntu server, one SSD for the OS and a RAID 5 HDD array. I'd like the RAID array to be encrypted in a manner that still allows it to be accessible ...
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Determine and change filename encoding on Windows

I have files on a Windows server that have certain accented characters in the name. On Windows Explorer files are displayed normally but running 'dir' at the command prompt with default settings ...
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Backing up 200TB of data from networkshare to multiple 8TB external HDDs (Linux)

I'm working for a company which collects tons of sensor-data from test drives. Currently we have about 200TB (1,638,400 Gbit) of data that needs to be backed up. We're planning to set up a tape ...
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Unable to view File Shares

I have a Windows 10 and Windows Server 2003 machines that both have file shares. Both are on the same Workgroup and the same user/password exists on both machines (local login, not domain). Each ...
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How to force traffic encryption in SMB v3

How traffic encryption can be forced in SMB v3 on Windows 10 Enterprise? I have already disabled SMB v1 and SMB v2 in the registy.
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How to recursively copy a directory through gio

I want to copy some directories off a remote SMB server. I tried to do it with gio copy, but it replies, that it cannot copy directiories recursively. How can one make it so it will?
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SMB: The account is not authorized to log in from this station

When I try to visit \\192.168.1.x on one of my computers I get the following error: \\192.168.1.x is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the ...
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How to avoid synology file operations being routed through macos host?

When I use Finder (or Path Finder) on macos to do file operations (copy/move) on my Synology the files get first downloaded to my macos machine and then uploaded again to Synology. E.g. : I move file ...
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Change SMB login from guest to another user?

I have a file server (using Samba 4 if that's important) that I normally connect to as a guest with read-only access. Rarely, I want to alter its contents so I have to login as a different user. ...
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find malicious code scanning smb port

The admin of my network said our server is trying to scan port 445. We use our server for two reasons. 1. A web server, 2. Gateway for our colleague's laptop. How can I find the malicious code? ...
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advantage of mounting a drive

What is the advantage of mounting a drive using mount -t cifs 192.168.1.10/Folder /mnt/folder compared to accessing it directly through smb://192.168.1.10/Folder
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different ways of accessing a share

Could anyone explain to me the difference between using mount -t cifs 192.168.1.10/Folder /mnt/folder mount 192.168.1.10:/volume1/Folder /mnt/folder smb://192.168.1.10/Folder to access a share? ...
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Can't access an smb share on a machine running Windows 10 after upgrade to version 1709

With the recent update to Windows 10 Version 1709, I cannot mount a shared folder from my Mac system via SMB anymore. According to Microsoft, the update 1709 finally removed the support of SMBv1 and ...
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File sharing with Linux server and Windows and Mac clients

I'm looking for a local solution to share files amongst 12 users. About 4 to 8 users will be working at the same time. Client computers: 8 computers with Windows 8/10 Professional 2 computers with ...
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SMB fileshare mount in OSX

So, I have had a cron-job running (on an Mac) for the last several weeks, doing backups on an SMB server we have at work. Recently (in the last couple of weeks) it has started giving me ...
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Unable to create public samba share

Hey I have a somewhat strange problem. I am unable to create a public sambe share on an ext4 filesystem. The shares with authentication as well as the public share on an ntfs volume work. Here is the ...
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How to find out which user credentials were used to connect to a SMB share

I am currently running a Windows 7 client with a mapped network drive Z: to \someserver\someshare, which I can see in explorer. How can I find out which user account was actually used to create this ...
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Bottleneck in gigabit LAN between samba server and laptop

I've got an ubuntu samba server running in my house which supports gigabit it's connected to a powerline communications adapter (also supports gigabit) then goes to my gigabit switch. When ...
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How to mount Samba / SMB shares under macOS from a terminal?

I need to be able mount Samba (SMB) shares from a macOS terminal. How can I do that?
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Play video from SAMBA share on Android--Any shared volume from Linux or Windows

I use Ubuntu12.10 with Gnomeshell. Installed latest version of samba share, configured to share my Video folder, access restricted via login (uid and password needed). SMB share accessed via Solid ...
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What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?

At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but ...
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Windows Remote Registry/DCOM access without SMBv1

Admin has disabled SMBv1 on our VMs because of some vulnerability. However, that broke our Jenkins slave nodes because the master cannot connect to the slave. Is there a solution for remote registry/...
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Can't access to Windows 10 share from a Windows 2000 machine

Recently made a hard decision to upgrade to Windows 10, a trend unstoppable. After that I reinstalled VirtualBox and import all of my VMs (Win2K+Win7). Found out that Windows 2000 guests can't access ...
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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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WDCloud - What is best protocol to connect via Mac OSX, SMB or AFP

I have a MacbookAir, and WD_EX2. Everything runs OK for more than I year. Since there is at leat two ways to make a connection I would like to know what is right/best protocol to connect : SMB or ...
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Ricoh Aficio MP171SPF: Scan to Folder not working

The scanning functionality on my MP171 is not working over my network. All the necessary configurations have been made using the web interface, but it cannot authenticate. It throws several different ...
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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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windows 10 cannot access media center network shares

I have a ZyXEL NSA325 Media Server with the default SMB network shares (e.g. \\hostname\video\). In windows 7, 8 and 8.1 I was able to view the content of \\hostname\ (i.e. the root of the network ...
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Connecting to Windows share "Name not unique on network"

I'm trying to connect from a stock Debian 8 or 9 Desktop to a Windows shared folder, by clicking "Connect to Server" from Nautilus or Cinnamon using a Server Name: smb://servername/shared which ...
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SSH port tunnelling to access device on VPN server's network (not connected to VPN)

not sure if this is possible (maybe with double tunnelling?) or whether it would even be helpful. But, first, 1) let me tell you about my setup and then 2) what I want to achieve and finally 3) why I ...
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Windows 7 network netbios

When I use the nbtstat -c command I see all the network devices except a local area connection that plugs in with a physical cable. I see all devices - WIFI / VMWARE except local area connection. What ...
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Difference between NetBIOS and SMB

I'm also trying to discover the relationship between netbios-ssn typically running on Port 139 and microsoft-ds running on Port 445. I understand that previously Port 139 was more popular with older ...
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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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