A shared resource or network share is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer, typically via a local area network or an enterprise Intranet, transparently as if it were a resource in the local machine.
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Can multiple computers simultaneously append to a file on a windows file share?
I'm trying to log certain information from my network of Windows machines; I've set them to periodically collect this info, then I want it in a single CSV file on a network drive. I'm using a VBS to ...
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Samba - Logging domain logon and share access?
I'm running SAMBA as file server and PDC in a small network.
3 of the machines are old WinXP machines that use roaming profiles for domain logon. They also automatically connect to their home ...
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Windows 2k8r2 retrieve mac address of network scanner from PDF [closed]
I was just wondering if it is possible to retrieve the MAC address of a network scanner from its generated file?
Thanks!
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How can I set up my own VPN on my cloud server? [closed]
What I want to do is to have a VPN that I can connect to from when travelling to get a safer and faster connection. I have OSX - can I set it up so that I can use OSX's built in VPN service?
My ...
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how to get the full path of a of an open file
I have script that runs on a Windows server to perform operations on certain files. The script often fails because various users (even myself) have open file shares on the server that they've ...
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peer-based distributed file sharing on windows xp/7 local network [closed]
In my office, i currently manage 10+ windows xp/7 computers, each having ~500gb space (with 20-30% space usage on average). I am interested in utilizing those "extra" space to build some kind of ...
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Method to Backup Files/Directories while Maintaining File Structure - Per Year
I need a method that may be able to accomplish what I am trying to do. This is a one time thing, any direction would be appreciated.
I need to archive a massive Windows share but I would like to be ...
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File and Folder sharing stopped working Windows 2008 R2
Our network as a Win 2008 R2 machine. File/Folder shares have been working on this machine since we installed it. A few days ago, sharing just stopped.
If we use Explorer to view the server using ...
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Ubuntu Server with win2k8 Server VM to Host IIS Site Issue
I have a ubuntu server(host), and a windows 2008 r2 server(client) virtual machine on it.
All my IIS based sites are located on the host machine, in a location which is shared with the client vm.
I ...
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Setting up a Networked External Drive with different filesystems [migrated]
everybody and thank you for taking the time to read this. I have an external hard drive with partitions for Time Machine (HFS+), Linux storage (Ext4), Swap Storage (Fat32), and Windows Storage (NTFS). ...
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file sharing solution for a small company network [closed]
So we have a team of 9 people that need a file share on a linux server.
Every person has its own laptop. Most have a linux distribution on it and some have a windows OS. For security reasons the ...
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Adobe Media Server Network Location for HTTP Streaming
Running Adobe Media Server 4.5 on Windows Server 2008. I have a mapped network drive (Amazon S3 connected via Webdrive) where all my videos are stored. Using a UNC path, I can successfully stream via ...
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Changing the Permissions on a Windows Share Remotely?
I read about the Net Share command a lot of places. It appears to have the ability to stop a remote share from being shared using the /DELETE argument, and it also appears to be able to add users to ...
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Implications of changing offline files settings on a network share
I have a windows network share that is currently set to allow windows clients to specify what is available offline. We want to change the option to all no files/programs to be available offline. ...
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Guest file sharing not working in win7 [closed]
I am trying to make a few folders accessible with no password from any device in the local network.
I enabled the guest account
I shared the folders and gave full permissions to everyone
I have ...
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Server essantials 2012 share with computer not on the doman
I have a server running essentials 2012.
I am having trouble connecting my mac to the domain through the mac connector. I was wondering if it is possible to share a folder on the server that can be ...
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Renaming files over a share on FreeNAS
I've just finished spinning up a FreeNAS install for various install ISOs, tools, etc for our team. The box is a small HP microserver with 500 gig of disk total, set up in a RAID-Z ZFS pool.
I've ...
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Mssql Server looses connection to domain; cannot access any shares until reboot
Server is Windows 2008R2.
MSSQl Server 2008 is installed.
4 Broadcom Network Cards (3 active, 1 standbye)
We had two time the same issue:
Suddenly we cannot access any network shares on other ...
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Howt to grant network access to Network Service account?
We have ServerA and MachineA in WORKGROUP, MachineB and other machines in the same domain, all the machines can be connected to others. Now we want to add scheduled tasks on MachineA, MachineB and ...
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ricoh c2051 printer not scanning to network share on linux
I have a ricoh c2051. I am trying to scan to network folder which is being shared by samba on centos. I can scan to it using xerox. The error message I receive on ricoh is
#[smb ...
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Shared file's session not closed by Adobe Acrobat on Windows 7
I have a Windows Server 2012 share and a Windows 7 client.
When this client open a PDF with Acrobat Reader 10 and then it closes it, this file remains open in share's sessions (Computer Management > ...
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Win2003 share being lost/dropped intermittently on Win7
Several Win 7 64 bit workstations are randomly losing connection to one of our shared drives from a Windows 2003 server.
1) In Windows Explorer for example trying to access \caedc1\Macshare results ...
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User Rights Assignment/Permissions to Share Folders?
Is there a specific User Right or Permission that can be set via Group Policy to grant a user permissions to create/modify/delete file shares (like creating "//fileserver/user$" shares instead of ...
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/etc/exports & mount option
In my Linux server I have the following options in /etc/exports
/home *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
And I mount from a Mac using
mount -t nfs -o ...
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Accessing Sharepoint 2010 Intranet folder via UNC path
We have this Sharepoint 2010 site with a Document Library that needs to be accessed from a separate system. And this separate system connects to it via a UNC string, such as \intranet\site\folder.
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“Correct” shared folder permissions on Windows Server 2008 R2 still won't allow access
Specs:
Clean install of Windows Server 2008 R2 on a 64 bit machine
Not on a domain
Roles installed:
File Server
Distributed File System
DFS Namespaces
File Server Resource Manager
Windows Search ...
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Windows Folder Permissions Script
One client has a Windows Domain with Home Folders, directed to a share using a GPO (\server\share\%username%).
The share has all users full control and the sub folders need permissions only for the ...
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is it possible to findout who creates a hotspot in a LAN?
In my LAN there are some Mac users who share their LAN connection by creating a hotspot via their Airport. I can see the newly created WiFi networks on any WiFi capable device. How can I find out who ...
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I/O statistics per user for HPC
I have been told that it's hard to collect I/O (file access) load (~ real-time) statistics per user on an HPC system, but I remain skeptical.
At my institution, we use Ganglia for monitoring, and SGE ...
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Can't give access to a specific folder
In my /etc/group i have some groups where i add the users depending on their role. Something like that:
Group1: userA, userB, userC
Group2: userA, userB
I have a samba running in the server. The ...
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Active Directory: Accessing network share as WinXP SYSTEM user
The Problem:
I cannot access a Domain Computers-accesible network share by a process running on Windows XP as a SYSTEM account.
I've got a 2008R2 domain, a 2003R2 file server and a set of clients.
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System error 5 on net use drive mapping when including password, no error when prompting for password
I get a 'System error 5 has occurred. Access is Denied' error when I do:
net use t: \\server\transfer /user:bpm_r bpm_rxt
However, I get a successful map if I do:
net use t: \\server\transfer ...
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Better to run single file server for multiple subnets or setup file server on each subnet?
I have a situation where there are three subnets within a building. Each subnet essentially isolates separate units within this group. In looking at different options for a file server, I am trying to ...
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Which machine to run cp from for fastest smb performance?
I have some huge(multi gb) files I'd like to transfer over a local network.
There are three computers involved, the source computer A, the destination computer B, and probably a 3rd computer(the ...
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What does it mean to grant/set permissions for NETWORK SERVICE on a network share?
I'm confused about the NETWORK SERVICE account (group?) works on network shares:
On one hand, NETWORK SERVICE is generally described as an account that's local to a given machine. (See, e.g., here on ...
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Can Skydrive be linked to a server based home directory?
At the school I work at we currently give every user a mapped drive to their home folder on the file server, all controlled through Active Directory.
We also have a heap of users using iPads, which ...
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Windows share - wrong password
Disclaimer: I'm completely new to this.
I'm trying to connect to a windows share folder in a different network. When I start remote desktop to the machine with the shared folder, the shared folder ...
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Small remote network fileserver access
I need to connect 4 separate offices to the same file server remotely. To achieve this the offices will be connected over the internet with BT ADSL using LAN to LAN VPN routers with the following IP
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Windows 2008 R2 Folder Sharing across domain displays <Unknown Contact>
[Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, latest hotfixes as of March 15, 2013]. I have a security group called "IT" in Domain1. I have a server2 in Domain2. There is a one-way trust from Domain1 into Domain2. ...
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Listing open files for end users and Windows 7 file preview issues
We have a Windows 2008 r2 file server that has a share that the users are mapped to that is full of PDFs. One department (A) has read/write access and most others (B) just have read access. If ...
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How to get “tail -f” working on a file located on a Windows share
I'm using a Mac and I have mounted a Windows network disk in my file system using "Connect to Server" in the Finder.
In the terminal when i do tail -f on a log file located on said network disk, tail ...
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What are the most common reasons for NFS auto mounts to fail?
Of course I need to solve a particular problem, but I'm hoping some more general answers on "how to troubleshoot automounting nfs" come up that will help more people with similar symptoms.
We've got ...
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Pinging two machines (mac and a pc) from a wifi hotspot [closed]
I am in India and I use a device like this(Verizon mifi) to connect to internet(Indian version is called Tata photon WiFi hub), this device can connect upto 5 computers but the problem is that none of ...
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Workaround relative path characters limt
There is a limit of 255 (Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces (Windows)) characters for relative paths apparently. I have some one asking me modify 80 directory paths I don't own or manage typically ...
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Client machine cannot access network shares
I have a single network running SBS 2003. One single XP SP3 machine cannot... will not... access network shares by the share name. You put \\ShareName into the run box, and it kicks back with "The ...
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Problems Mounting Windows Share on Debian, Works on Fedora
I have a fedora 14 machine that mounts a windows share with settings placed in /etc/fstab without problem (including ability to write / delete files).
I recently setup a debian 6 machine with ...
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How to Make Windows 2012 Share Display in Windows 7 Network [closed]
I'm setting up a Windows 2012 Essentials machine to be a local file server. I've got the shares setup and I can access the shares from my OSX computer. My Win7 machine can only acces it by typing ...
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Can I allow a non-admin to log users off WS2008 R2 server shared resources only? [closed]
Here's the scenario: we have a server hosting a legacy application that runs on an Access database.
We manage the app externally via shared folder access but IT denies us direct access to the server ...
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Printer shows server offline error for only some computers
I'm having trouble with an HP LJ 1022n printer. The connection is as follows:
Printer connected via usb to desktop (shared options set, discoverability, etc)
Desktop connected to switch and set up ...
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How to mount a network share as a local drive? [duplicate]
I have two servers. One has a limited amount of space (S01) and the other (S02) has several TBs free. I want to mount one of the partitions of the S02 server to S01 and use it as local drive. Not as a ...
