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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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File not found/read error if file accessed immediately after saving it

I am running CentOS 7, working on a synchronously mounted network drive (NFS). EDIT: more system info: Server is running CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) with kernel 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 and ...
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What are the best methods to share files among 2 different VM

What are the best methods to automate the exchange files between 2 servers VM on the same LAN on the cloud? A VM is windows server and B VM is CentOS Linux OS, the direction path is Windows Server Dir ...
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Directly zip to network Shared Drive

i am using centos 7,currently I am running a cron in which some files are being zipped and then sent to the directory in desktop on daily basis from there I have to move it manually to a NAS(local ...
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How can I determine the version of a remote NFS share?

I am having trouble with a some software, that only can mount NFSv3 and NFSv4 share - it can not mount NFSv4.1 or NFSv4.2. Since I do not have access to the server itself, I cannot determine what ...
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Allow User's to clear print queue for themselves but not other users?

From what I understand, enabling allow on "manage documents" on the printer security tab will allow users to clear the queue for themselves and others... Is there a way to have them retain ...
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Share DFS location and Change Name of DFS folders

I want to simplify file server access from displaying multiple drives to instead, share the DFS location that lists all of the shortcuts to the actual folders and files my users need access to. The ...
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Is it possible to allow users to see only the files/folders they have created in a windows (server 2016 ) shared folder?

a shared folder has been created z://networkshare/workfolder/ user1 has created a file file1.doc and saved to z: drive user2 has created a file file2.doc and saved to z: drive Currently both users can ...
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Share folders between two EC2 instances within the same VPC

I have a number of Windows servers in EC2 on the same VPC. How can I get those machines to share folders with each other? The closest answer I see is here: Unable to Share Data between Amazon EC2 ...
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Can multiple users work directly on a NAS

The title may be confusing but I'll try to explain my question the best I can. Say I have two physical offices, on one I have all my data (excel files, word files, pdf's, etc). On the other I have my ...
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Network Mapped Drives sensitive information leakage when changing LAN networks on Windows

Assuming the following or similar setup of network drives/locations on a Windows 7+ system originally connected to a TrustedLAN: TrustedLAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1 /24 TrustedLAN Windows System IP: 192....
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File Server Directory Structure

Let's say I have 3 main directories that need to be shared, I'll call them "Management", "Finance" and "Sales". There seems to be two logical ways of doing this: either I ...
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Difficulty adding new folder in network root directory

Hey I hope you all are having a good day here. I started a position at a new company and am working to add a new file directory at the root level of our network drive called \\data. When I go to add a ...
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Group Managed Service Account access to network share on remote server

We've got a service running using a Group Managed Service Account on a Windows Server 2016 host (HostA). We're extending the functionality of this service so that it runs an R script which needs to ...
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Cannot set parent share with Read/Write only access

On a WD MyCloud nas I have a share called Multimedia. The nas is joined to my domain. What I want: Domain Users to be able to create/write and delete their own subfolders in the Multimedia share. What ...
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Prevent deletion of other's files on a shared folder

We have a shared folder so all employees can upload and save file or create folders to it. But we want to prevent workers to delete other's files and folders. I assigned all permissions except "...
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Problems accessing shared folder in Windows clustered file Server 2008 R2

Firs of all I need to apologise for my poor technical and language skills. I will try to describe a problem as detail as I can. There is subnet 172.16.10.0/24 In this subnet I have 3 servers 1 storage ...
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Windows 10 Firewall Blocking Incoming VPN Traffic

Client accesses Windows Server file share and is successful.. [Local IP] 192.168.1.62 [VPN IP] 192.168.15.101 ---> [Server IP] 192.168.15.10 Success Server ...
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Workstations lose connection to network shares and need to be rebooted in order to reconnect to shared resources

I have a situation where workstations will lose the connection to network shares and printers during the night and have to be rebooted in order to reconnect, afterwards everything works correctly, ...
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Why are network file transfers so slow with multiple small files?

When transferring large (Several GBs) of data over various forms of file transfer, such as: FTP, SFTP, NFS and Samba. They all suffer from the same issue of multiple small files hampering speeds down ...
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Slow Samba multitasking

I've setup a Debian 9 fileserver with Samba. When transferring data in LAN, I get a speed of approx 95Mbps which is alright but when I navigate through my folders while transferring they won't load ...
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\\machinename cannot open network share while \\ipaddress work in cross domain

We have established a two-way trusted domain environment. All servers are Windows Server 2019. In server1.domainA.com there is shared drive. In server2.domainB.com, we tried to browse with \\server1 ...
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windows server 2008 folder share permissions on new OS

I have a AD DC 2008 i installed AD DC on another 2012 host, transferred the 2008 domain PDC and all other FSMO roles to the 2012 server. the 2008 server has a E: drive with shared folders accessed ...
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How can I monitor the reliability of connections to network shares?

I can use any of Windows Pro or Server Standard, or CentOS to do this monitoring (I guess). It seems there are some complex issues going on with AWS Deadline jobs which I don't expect anyone to know ...
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WinServer Connects To SMB Share As "TINA2"

I have a computer that has a fileshare (Windows Server 2012). When I looked at the sessions, I saw a computer named tina2. There is no current computer on our network named tina2. When I ...
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In what order to executable files get transferred and executed from a network share?

What is the difference between transferring an executable file to your local computer before running it vs directly running it from an SMB share. Does running it from the share transfer the whole file ...
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Apache corrupting files by inserting response headers into file content?

I have a windows share that users wish to access internally in-browser without authenticating. I have mounted the windows share into /mnt/Share on my Ubuntu VM. I then set the DocumentRoot directive ...
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Mounting a Samba share does work from Windows command line but not in Windows Explorer

I want to share a folder on our Ubuntu 20.04 Linux server to our Windows 10 Pro clients in the same network via Samba. So I installed Samba 4.11.6 on the server and created this (minimal) smb.conf ...
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Mapping to a Window 10 share over an OpenVPN client connection

I have a pfsense router with an OpenVPN client connected. I have a Synology NAS on the inside that I can map to over the VPN connection. I am also trying to map to a share on a Windows 10 Pro pc (...
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How can users change their Active Directory password without Remote Desktop?

In our Active Directory setup, some users will be accessing domain resources (shared folders on the network, specifically) from non-domain computers. Only users from the domain have permission to ...
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Sharing folders with X2Go?

I just started using x2go to establish a remote desktop connection between two Debian 10 machines and discovered the neat file-sharing functionality of the x2goclient (Session Preferences > Shared ...
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QuickBooks - Windows Server 2016 Network Files Randomly Disappear when Browsed by QuickBooks Client

Background We have 18 QuickBooks company files in a mult-user environment running on a new installation of Windows Server 2016. The QuickBooks Database Server Manager is installed. All of these ...
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Windows Linux shared file system ownership

We have a network file system shared among Linux and Windows servers. Whatever Windows writes gives ownership to root when observed from Linux. In Linux we have a tomcat user which thus, is not able ...
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Prevent users to drop image files in a shared folder

I have a folder that is shared on the network. That folder contains a lot of files, documents, images, etc. I would like that users can put any kind of files in the folder but NO images (JPG). I can't ...
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Connect two small networks each using own DSL to one shared server for applications and data storage

Per davidgo I am rewriting this: Company A has a network, DSL modem/router, switch, server DHCP running Server 2008, and workstations. While Company B has a network, DSL modem/router, switch, and IP ...
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Windows 10 to Linux Samba over VPN, strange directory listing issue

We have a client that has two sites connected via VPN, one of the users has moved from one to the other taking their computer with them. When they connect to the server at the old site it connects ...
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Connecting Debian client to a Windows 10 Server via SMB

I have my LAN setted up with SMB protocol and I can pretty much access all the shares from different OS Devices (Windows 10, DD-WRT NAS, Android), but I've got a problem when connecting the Debian ...
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ZFS Datasets appear as empty when shared through NFS

I was trying to create a couple of NFS shares on my file server and failing miserably. After hours of trial and error I noticed that if I share a zfs dataset directly it appears as an empty folder on ...
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Enter network credentials not working when connecting Win to Ubuntu Samba share

A real "Knacknuss"... I have an Ubuntu Server, and setup Samba for Windows to connect. All is working fine but for that one particular Windows computer (Win 10 pro) that can not connect. How ...
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Mapped Network Drive with SMB1 and Windows 10 [closed]

I have a Windows Server 2003 machine (I know, but it’s out of my control) with a bunch of network shares on it. I have a laptop that has just been rebuilt with Windows 10 2004. I’ve enabled CIFS/SMB1 ...
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Are MacOS sparsebundles suitable for multiuser access

I want to use a sparsebundle on a linux bases NAS (synology) as a encrypted container. The sparsebundle files will be accessible in a shared Folder via SMB or AFP for MacOS Clients. Does this work, if ...
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set permissions on a directory by active directory organizational units

I would like to set permissions on a directory (or/and share) by active directory organizational units instead of users groups. Is it possible?
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Can write to all smb shares except root of mounted USB drive

I have a USB drive mounted to /media/usbdrive on my Ubuntu 20.04 box. I can write files to any share except the root share. Meaning, I have these shares set up in smb.conf: [usb] path = /media/...
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Unable to remove network share credentials under 2012 R2 from programmed task

I am used a backup software (under Windows Server 2012 R2) that seems to use smb to write to the remote backup device. I have realized that, upon completion, credentials are "still there" so a ...
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Cloud Storage Provider with file handles

Is there a cloud storage provider that provides file handles similarly to CIFS/SMB? We are using Dropbox and we would like to receive a warning when a file is opened by someone else (if there's a ...
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Windows File Server - file creation error

We recently migrate our file server from win 2008R2 to a win2019. But from a network drive trying to create new folder or file will give you an error "refers to a location that is unavailable". ...
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DNS resolving while working from home doesn't work accurate

In the current situation we are using VPN connections while working from home to get access to data in our company network. We are all using Windows 10 machines. We have some shared directories like "\...
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Using custom auth through hardware device on Windows network map drive possible?

I want to custom the auth method when connecting smb as a client on Windows to a linux server. I expect to it to work like this: When connecting as a network map drive, Windows auth center will read ...
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Synology QuickConnect Relay: Not Secure?

I was reading the QuickConnect whitepaper and was overall pretty impressed. But on page 10 it explains how the Relay service works and it’s implied (but not explicitly stated) that packets are ...
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Remove share block against user

I had a user recently attempt to upload a .txt which trigger sophos and now has been blocked from every share on the entire network, which is problematic as this is over 1,000 shares and doing ...
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Most secure way to implement a file server to avoid ransomware

Hi I'm looking to migrate several large file servers off of windows 2012. Servers are mainly just serving flat .pdf, word files, on internal network mainly running windows 10 clients . I am strongly ...
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