Questions tagged [samba]
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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List Samba users?
So yesterday evening I was pulling my hair out (figuratively -- I'm bald) for over an hour trying to figure out why smbpasswd kept rejecting my attempts to reset the password for one of my Samba users....
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How to access mounted network drive on Windows Linux Subsystem?
I have a samba drive which is mounted on my local windows computer.
I have a /mnt/c drive in WLS (Windows 10 Bash), but no /mnt/z.
Is there a way to access it somehow? Can I remount it in WSL?
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How do I recursively download a directory using smbclient?
When I try to fetch a directory with get "Path To\Directory\", I get the following error:
NT_STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY opening remote file Path To\Directory
How do I recursively download this ...
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Using Samba to share a folder from a Linux guest with a Windows host in VirtualBox
I would like to share a folder from a Linux Guest with a Windows host (with read and write access if possible) in VirtualBox.
I read in these two links: here and here that it's possible to do this ...
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Samba+Windows: Allow multiple connections by different users?
I have a machine running Ubuntu with Samba that I use to share stuff with my family's Windows machines in our local network. Currently they access a share for movies/music/etc with one user.
I want ...
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How do I change my windows domain password from Mac OS X?
Macs work well in Windows corporate environments, but a lot of companies require you to change your password after a period of time (3 months for example).
How do you change your Windows domain ...
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Windows 10 Password Error with Samba Share
I am trying to connect to a samba share with Windows 10 Pro (Version 1511, Build 10586.589) using the command net use L: \\myserver\myshare /u:myuser mypassword. I get the error:
System error 86 - ...
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Windows 7, connecting to Samba shares
How can I connect to a Samba share with authentication using Windows 7?
We have a bunch of Linux, HP-UX and AIX servers on our network with folders shared using Samba. These are not connected to our ...
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Clients can't create symlinks on Samba share
As recommended in many answers to questions about samba shares and symlinks, I have tried explicitly enabling "follow symlinks" (although documentation says it is on by default) as well as enabling "...
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Files/Folders get weird names and become inaccessible on Samba share
Here is our current setup:
Mac OS X 10.5.8 File server using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. There is a share that is shared over AFP (For Mac desktops) and Samba for (Windows desktops).
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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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Mount error(5):Input/output error on mount
I am getting mount error (5):
Input output error on mounting to cifs windows share.
Command executed:
sudo /bin/mount -t cifs //server/folder /mnt/folder/ -o username="domain/username",password=...
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SSH tunnel on Windows 10 to Linux Samba
I know This question has been asked a few times already but I think my problem might be slightly different. Maybe I'm not understanding the fundamentals of the issue.
I have a Linux Samba share that ...
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Ubuntu + latest samba version, symlinks no longer work on share mounted in windows
I just apt-getted (apt-got?) the latest software for my Ubuntu 9.10 linux box, and I noticed that samba was the included in the update.
After the install, the symlinks in my home directory no longer ...
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Home file server using Samba has slow read and write speed
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server 12.04. I installed Samba for file sharing on my home network. I have Windows and Linux machine.
My server spec are:
AMD Phenom 2 x6 1055t
8GB of RAM
10/100/1000 ...
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How to mount a samba share on non-standard port?
The firewall on my network drops all packets on TCP port 139 and 445. So all samba shares don't work outside the LAN.
I tried letting the samba daemon listen on a non-standard port. This method works ...
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How to make Windows 7 remember credentials for a Samba network drive?
I have a Samba share on my Ubuntu server which I map as a network drive on my Windows 7 Professional computer.
After every reboot it shows the drive as disconnected and to access it I have to renter ...
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Opening smb:// links on windows
Is there any way to make Windows (10 preferably) explorer to open smb protocol URI? Like smb://1.2.3.4/file.txt
I'm in a diverse environment of operating systems (mostly windows, mac and linux) and ...
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Why is there a write speed difference between dd, cp, rsync and macOS Finder to a SMB3 drive?
Tl;dr – We can't find the reason for the limited write speed of 60 MB/sec to our NAS via SMB and AFP from two different Mac clients. In comparison: An old Windows 7 laptop in the same network writes ...
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How to `ls` a remote folder?
This one uses Samba:
$ ls smb://192.168.5.4/wdtvlivehub/abc
ls: cannot access smb://192.168.5.4/wdtvlivehub/abc: No such file or directory
I somehow managed to do it by;
Browsing to the remote ...
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How do I get back the default Samba configuration file (Debian-based system)?
I recently installed Samba and I messed up the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. How do I get the original configuration back?
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Add multiple @groups to valid users
In smb.conf I have the line
valid users = @Staff @Directors
Is this a valid syntax to add two groups to the valid users line? It does not seem to work right on our xp pro clients.
If not which of ...
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samba sync password with unix password on debian wheezy
I installed samba on my server and I am trying to write a script to spare me the two steps to add user, e.g.:
adduser username
smbpasswd -a username
My smb.conf states:
# This boolean parameter ...
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Sharing an external hard drive in Ubuntu using Samba
/media/MYDISK is where my hard drive is mounted automatically. I created a symlink using:
ln -s /media/MYDISK /home/camilo/MYDISK
chmod 777 /home/camilo/MYDISK
I'm setting up smb.conf like this:
[...
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Samba - Create Subdirectory Shares with their own permissions
I have a Samba share containing many folders like this:
share
- folderA
- folderB
- folderC
- folderD
There are around 20 users accessing those shares. Every user can have their individual ...
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Creating a samba share where everyone has write access
I have an Ubuntu server in my house running samba. I'm trying to set up a samba share where everyone has read and write access.
I have all the users in a 'sambashare' unix group and want to offer the ...
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Can not connect to share (system error 1272)
Since some time I can not connect to a local samba share anymore.
When I try to access \\<server ip>\drive, I get the following dialog:
When connecting using the command line, using the command ...
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How do I completely remove and reinstall Samba on Debian?
My Samba installation has become a mess, and now the services won't even start correctly anymore, for some reason.
Is there a way to completely remove Samba, as if it was never there, and then ...
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Error mounting samba share, cannot mount block device xxxx read-only
After installing Ubuntu 12.04, I'm trying to mount a samba share from Windows under Linux, using a scripted command that's always worked, and the server hasn't changed.
The error is as follows:
$ ...
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How to interpret output of nmblookup -A
The command
nmblookup -A IP_address
returns, according to the man page, a node status query on this address. A typical output is:
Looking up status of 192.168.253.101
HPB4B52F0559C2 <...
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Disconnect from samba share
Sometimes during the same Windows (Vista) session i have to connect to the same (samba) file server in a workgroup (no domain) as another user. It seems Windows has cached the current connection with ...
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Samba vs. NFS: Performance [closed]
I've got a choice of setting up Samba or NFS on my Linux based NAS ( nslu2 running OpenDebian ).
Does anyone have performance related stories comparing the two options ? Are there tuneup tricks that ...
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Did Windows 10 April Update break network discovery and Samba support?
It seems Window's network discovery / name resolution doesn't work anymore on computers freshly reset with the new April update for Windows 10 (Build 1803). (Computers that were merely updated don't ...
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How can I connect a Windows 8 PC to a Samba domain
I am using Samba 3, and want to join my Windows 8 PC to the Samba domain.
Windows 8 cannot join out of the box, so I added the following registry entries:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\...
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Ports for NAT'ed Windows share
Simple question: I have a NATed Linux at home that hosts a couple of samba shares.
What Ports should I forward from the router to the Linux box so as to be able to access those shares from the ...
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which Linux command allows to browse all available smb shares in the network?
I want to browse all available smb shares in the network, like clicking the "network" in nautilus then all shares are shown, using command line
the closest one I got is smbclient -L SRVNAME, which ...
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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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How Can I Force Unmount a Network Device on Mac?
Hey guys, I currently do CMD + K in Finder to connect to my Windows computer to be able to browse and use its network shares (i.e. smb://MyPC). It works fine, but sometimes when I click on it, maybe ...
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getent passwd outputs only local users
I want to authenticate via Active Directory on a CentOS 6.4 server.
wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g display the domain users/groups. Authentication via wbinfo -a DOMAIN+user works. Authentication via kinit ...
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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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How do I navigate to a samba location I've mounted in Nautilus on the command line?
This is the same question here (and a bit of here too), except that I'm running Debian wheezy (7.4). To clear up, these directories do not exist:
/run/user
/var/run/user
~/.cache/gvfs
And this ...
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Debian - allow user to be root only for specific commands
We have several Linux boxes running Samba that are used 'locally', eg each branch gets their own Samba box to store and share files.
The office managers need to be able to add and remove users for ...
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Mount a SAMBA share and create symbolic link
I develop web-apps using ubuntu (jaunty) but have a need to work on a site that must be hosted on windows. I've setup virtualbox with a winxp32 installation and shared the entire hard disk. My goal is ...
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Samba change_to_user_internal error when accessing the share
I am getting the following error when trying to access samba share.
[2019/02/24 20:24:48.978082, 0] ../source3/smbd/uid.c:386(change_to_user_internal)
change_to_user_internal: ...
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How to specify IPv6 link-local bind address in smb.conf?
Using samba 4.1.17-Debian I have tried the following smb.conf entries to bind samba to the link-local ipv6 addresses
interfaces = fe80::d270:36a5:ac03:37ea%br0 fe80::/10 ::1
bind interfaces only = ...
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Add custom network device icons in Mac OS X Finder?
Mac OS X Finder is smug enough to display any non-Mac device as a picture of a PC with a BSOD, but I'm wondering if it's possible to add other devices, so my Ubuntu machine is detected and has a ...
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Is there a speed difference between transferring files over FTP and Samba?
I have a home network setup with a desktop PC, two laptops and a ubuntu server desktop all connected to a router (DD-WRT). I want to setup the ubuntu server on a separate subdomain (security reasons: ...
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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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How to change SMB user in windows 10?
I just changed my username account in my laptop, But when I tried to connect my smb client on my another device, I had to login using my old username.
How to change login username?
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