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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How to remotely access a Windows network share?
I have a Windows (10 Pro, if that matters) machine that has a network share. It (the network share) can be accessed over LAN. However, when I am out, I need a way to access the network share over WAN.
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How can I mount a CIFS share from an MS-DOS computer
I am using 2 MS-DOS computers + 1 Windows 7 computer + 1 Raspberry Pi are connected to Cisco router through ethernet. I am easily able to map DOS shared folder in wWindows computer, \\DOSMCJB\DAT ...
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Log of devices connected to a Windows 10 shared folder
I have a shared folder on my computer and I'm connected to a local network.
Is there a way to know who has connected to my shared folder in local network?
Does Windows keep a log of the connected ...
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Is it safe to disable SMB v2/v3 in Windows 10?
I don't use my Windows 10 machine to share or retrieve files, connect to printers, or connect to other hosts via serial port in my home network. Given the history of security flaws in the SMB protocol,...
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How to setup discrete pass-protected SMB share for local Android viewing?
I'm on Win10Pro64 and familiar with using SMB shares for local network. However, we currently have a roommate who would like to access some media files I have on network. I'm not comfortable with ...
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SMB transfer on one computer broken, but another computer can handle it, and I can access the other computer
I have a local network, and I have made an SMB file share called "Share" on my computer. It used to work on another computer, one that is very strong in performance.
Recently I noticed an issue. When ...
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Can Windows XP supply media to Kodi?
I have a HTPC with XP (~ see below) and I just installed Kodi on a Raspberry Pi (LibreELEC). A quick try with SMB didn't work, and I thought I recalled that WannaCry caused Microsoft to disable SMB, ...
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How to SAMBA SMB LAN Share on tethering android hotspot?
After several hours I am out of ideas.
I have a phone. I connect my PC to its hostspot to get internet.
I want to connect to my PC's (Win10) shared folders, but it is Impossible!
I don't understand ...
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SMB access issues Server 2016 from Mac-Catalina
I have 2 Macs accessing SMB shares of a Server 2016 and problems occur, constant server connection. Both Macs are in the graphics department.
Currently the problem is for Excel, Adobe Illustrator etc....
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What is wrong with my smbclient
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Today I set up an smb share on my Linux desktop machine connected to my router via cable 1GBit/s. I tested the LAN speed between my Notebook(Manjaro, 5GHz) and desktop using iperf. Result is ...
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How degrade SMB through CMD
Is there a way for downgrade the SMB protocol to SMBv1 through the CMD console?
I trying share my "program.exemple" using "impacket-smbserver" but this error is displayed:
"You can't connect to ...
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Force SMB3 when possible?
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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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Saving system images via Webdav remotely on windows 10
I use the automated backup system on my Windows 10 laptop to weekly save a system image to my NAS using smb while on my LAN, easily accessible by mounting the NAS as \\NAS\path\to\backup. However, ...
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SMB settings in Windows 2016 VM
I am having trouble about advanced settings of network interface to get more speed.
If RSS is enabled;
Sending: 40MB/s
Receiving: 40MB/s
If RSS is disabled;
Sending: 70MB/s
Receiving: 10MB/s
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Forcing direct transfer within a NAS using Windows Explorer on a terminal (without the use of the NAS's proprietary web app)
Using Windows Explorer on a local PC running Windows10 (MyPC), if I drag and drop the example file (file1.ext, 1GB) from:
\\Network-NAS\FolderA\
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\\Network-NAS\FolderB\
file1.ext seems to first ...
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My university uses SMBv1 for file shares. Is manually enabling SMBv1 on my Windows 10 machine a bad idea?
My university has network drives set up using the SMBv1 protocol. They instruct students to manually enable SMBv1 in Windows before trying to access these, since SMBv1 is currently disabled. There are ...
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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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How can a macOS SMB share be mounted on Linux so that symbolic links can be created on it?
There is lots of conflicting information about it and it seems to depend a lot on the versions of various modules, and specific mount options.
I'm not looking for the symlink "emulation" (mfsymlinks),...
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Is there a way to dynamically move a file from one device to another at the time of an SMB request?
I am trying to figure out a way to move files on the fly from a traditional HDD to an SSD when a user requests a file via SMB
So the user would browse the server and when selecting the file it moves ...
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Permission issue while accessing Share from IIS
Here is the abbreviated version:
I have a dot net application running under IIS. When I do a File.Move(local file, remote share file) the Move does not happen and there is an SMB error "Security ...
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Samba Client and Windows 10 Home - "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE"/"Access denied"
I'm trying to access a file share from a Windows 10 Home using a Samba client. However the following errors happen ...
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[root@eduardo-nb eduardo]# smbclient -L 192.168.0.5 -W WORKGROUP ...
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Samba+LDAP - Diagnosing Problems (Access Denied)
I really need some help because I can't identify what's going on... I'm pretty lost here... =|
PROBLEM:
I have a server "server_a" with a directory "group_a_folder" ("/srv/...
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Time of SMB File Sharing Different in Linux and Windows
Good day, I am facing this issue where I hosted a Ubuntu with SMB File Sharing, FYI, all the files are feed from a microcontroller sensor to UBUNTU SMB Directory.
Then, I view with windows directory. ...
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VSS Versions not Visible to Users Viewing Windows 10 SMB Share
Setup
I have a Windows 10 PC acting as a file server, with a single folder shared with all users of a Workgroup. The PC has been configured to backup the shared folder to a secondary HDD using VSS in ...
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Cannot Access Local Windows Share by Different Name
Does anybody know why its not possible to access a local Windows share (say c$) within the same computer using a different name that resolves to the same IP address.
Example:
Computer Name: COMP-1
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How to resolve the 0x80070035 error in Windows 10 local shares WITHOUT turning on guest access or SMB 1.0?
I've read up on the majority of articles about this "problem" that Microsoft introduced, including their own articles on the reasoning:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-nz/help/4034314/smbv1-is-not-...
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Why would I see"The requested operation requires elevation" after copying an executable to network share?
I have a simple .NET application that doesn't normally require admin permissions. When this executable is copied to a network share a little admin shield appears on the icon. Now, from the network ...
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mojave SMB randomly crashing, AFP is fine
Building off my previous post that I can't edit or comment on: Obnoxious intermittent SMB issues on mojave Mac Mini (2018) server
Ever since we installed a new Mac Mini (2018) with mojave server we ...
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When connecting to SMB server, why hostnames are not resolved sometimes?
I have an SMB file server on my network with the hostname MY-SERVER and the address of 192.168.1.10. On some machines, I can connect to its shared directory using the hostname (smb://my-server/ or \\...
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SMB not working Windows 8/10
I've been tearing my hair out trying to connect to an SMB share and I keep getting "Unexpected Network Error" and "Error 0x80004005". I've tried enabling SMBv1 in Windows Features, and I've tried ...
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What is Deviceless connections in the Microsoft document of Net Use command?
In the following link, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-xp/bb490717(v=technet.10), Microsoft mentioned that "Deviceless connection". What is that?
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Drives shared on network without action
I've started a new job and was given a workstation.
The computer runs Windows 10 Pro but it is not part of a domain and is configured with a personal account (noone but me knows the username/password)....
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Is My Router Blocking SMB 445?
I am trying to mount an Azure File Share from my Ubuntu 18.10 laptop (kernel 4.18.0-15-generic).
sudo mount -t cifs //12345xyz.file.core.windows.net/username-company-com-100120003abcd4e5 /mnt/...
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Win 10 connecting to SAMBA on raspbian gives "wrong password"
I'm trying to set up a raspbian server (yes pi) and use a usb drive to share via samba.
Basic setup with no authentication works fine from my windows 10 machine.
[global]
server string = %h (Samba,...
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SMB Discovery - Discovering shared folders on the network
Is there a way where we can discover all the devices in the network with shared folders?
Typically like how the network folder works in windows.
Would any java/android library support smb discovery??
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Samba share on my Arch Linux server unreachable after a couple of hours
I'm running a samba share on an Arch Linux server for two years now, I never had any problems with it. But for a month now, the samba share becomes unreachable after a couple of hours. It started ...
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Obnoxious intermittent SMB issues on mojave Mac Mini (2018) server
Ever since we installed this new Mac Mini (2018) we keep having intermittent SMB issues.
Setup: Mac Mini (2018) Currently on 10.14.2 and haven't updated to .3 yet because I was hoping I could get ...
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How could I automatically create a network share of every USB drive on Linux?
I'd like to create a "network USB hub", a central device, where all the coworkers plug all the USB drives, and then everyone can access them.
I wonder how I could set (headless) Ubuntu to ...
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Is there a way to restrict allowed characters in a path on a Windows fileserver?
There are many characters that Windows won't allow in a path, like \/:*?"<>|.
I would like to expand upon that list. I want to further restrict what characters can be used on a file-server to ...
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“53 Network path was not found” when trying to access \\fqdn, but \\IP works fine
I want to access a windows PC's (192.168.44.1/24, WinXP, lets call it server ;-) ) file share from another PC (192.168.54.110/24, Win 10 Pro, lets call it client).
There is also a MacBook next to the ...
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Can't access Ubuntu shared folder from Windows 10
I couldn't access an Ubuntu shared folder from one of my Windows 10 computers, from the other side, I could access from another windows 10 and 7.
I tried with all the smb versions and always had the ...
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Can't connect from Windows 10 to Mac Mini using SMB
I have a Mac Mini running OS X 10.11 where I set up SMB to share a set of files with my Windows machine (I have Windows as the client, connecting to the Mac). I used to use Windows 7 and everything ...
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Windows 'net use' usage
I am trying to troubleshoot an issue with credential scanning of a Windows 2012 Server using Nessus and one of the troubleshooting step is to run the following command from an elevated command prompt.
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file size preservation when automatically transferring files
I have an FTP server that users are uploading music or talk programs to. I have a server that will automatically, through time based scheduling, grab these files in certain directories. One of the ...
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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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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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Office 2016 blocks document permanently after PC crashed
I have recently upgraded from Office 2007 to Office 2016, and ever since then I observe the following behaviour:
I open a document from my Synology DS216J NAS mounted as UNC-Path via SMB for example ...
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Connection refused while accessing a Windows 10 share via Ubuntu/CIFS
Goal: To access Windows 10 file shares, from Linux, over a VPN.
In this context: "server" is a simple Windows 10 machine, and "client" is Ubuntu 18.
I have an OpenVPN tunnel setup, connection seems ...
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Port 445 replacement in windows
I need to replace my 445 port of my 2 NAS servers connected across 2 sites to any other port. My isp has blocked 445. I can't use VPN, port redirection or forwarding. I tried changing (TCP port for ...
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machine name resolution over SMB on windows
In order to resolve IP to hostname on my environment, I can do it by 3 ways:
DNS, Netbios and SMB.
to test DNS i use "ping -a IPAddress",
To test netbios i use "nbtstat ",
How can i test smb ? I ...
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