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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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Disable file locks on a read-only Windows File Share

Case On a Windows Server (2012R2 or 2016), I want to configure a file share offering a following functionality some users, publishers group, have a write access to the share; these users are ...
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Is my NFS mount actually using async? Diagnosing very slow response time

I have the following NFS mount: server:path /mnt/path nfs rw,hard,intr,nfsvers=4,async 0 0 Pings to the server are ~60ms, which is quite reasonable, yet any access to the mount is very slow. Copying ...
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Add Network Share as a Trusted Site

I'm having the problem described in this SO question when using Visual Studio T4 templates on a network share. The solution specified is to add your file share to your Trusted Sites Zone via Internet ...
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Cannot access server shares via VPN

I have set up a my server to accept VPN connections. My users primarily use VPN to access the server shares files. Everything was working fine until one day I was doing some work on the file system ...
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Can't Disable SMB 2/3 Signing between Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019

I've been having some strange file copy issues between a Windows 10 client and Window Server 2019 system (DC/Fileserver). I don't want to explain that issue in detail here other than to say it ...
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Is there any significant benefit to keeping shared network folders inside a VM rather than just mapping direct NAS folders?

I'm working on a new storage plan and am wondering if there is any significant benefit to keep shared network folders inside of a VM. Currently, our user shares (shared network drives) are simply a ...
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Why are WSUS shared folders shared out to entire network?

I set up a Server 2012 R2 instance as a WSUS server and went through initial set up. But now, from another computer on LAN, when I type explore to the server via UNC path I see Wsuscontent and ...
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Server 2012 R2 - Hangs at shut down or restart

We have an odd situation with some of our servers where they don't appear to be able to shut down or restart without having to hard power them off manually. At first I assumed it was just a one-time ...
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net use fails with system error 67 with FQDN

I search for help with a confusing error with Windows 7 mounting a network fileshare. The problem is that on machine A a mount with the FQDN fails (net use system error 67) while the same command ...
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How can I provide services to an internal air-gapped extranet

Background - "Extranet" We have about a dozen users that are on what I would call an Extranet. It is an air-gapped LAN that is physically in the same location as our primary LAN. We share ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Shared Folders MMC: open mode "no access"

Can somebody explain what does "no access" open mode mean in Open Files node of Shared Folders MMC snap-in in Windows Server 2008 R2? Title of column "Open Mode" and value "no access" looking a bit ...
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Windows 7 "Home Group" on a work PC with only one NIC

I am a Domain Admin and am trying to support BYOD with computers that will also be domain connected. The problem is that once I domain join a PC, the "zone" changes to "domain", while Homegroups ...
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Use NAS or Virtualized Server to Serve Files

We are planning to set up 3 VMware nodes and move our infrastructure from physical servers to virtual machines. I haven't decided which NAS to get yet, but I know I need to get one that supports iSCSI ...
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Disable creation of specific file names on a windows share

In Linux, it's easy to disallow the creation of files with specific names through the use of samba's veto files options. This is useful in situations where, for example, you have Macs connecting to ...
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"Mount error 13" on CIFS connection w/o Domain Admin

Scenario I have following clients in my network: Quartz I2S scanner with embedded Linux firmware Windows client (not domain-joined) for comparison These will be trying to access a network share on ...
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Network share Bare Metal Restore not seeing images

My 2012 Essentials R2 server is backed up to an ISCSI drive. Yesterday both disks in my RAID0 decided to die, so I am having to do a BMR from the backup. Steps I have taken: New RAID0 logical drive ...
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Issue affecting general performance in Server 2012 R2

Back in 2016, We deployed a solution for one of our customers that was an Windows 2012 R2 RDS solution with 2 session host servers, a web server, a couple of file servers, a SQL server and an exchange ...
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"The specified network name is no longer available." intermittently

(I took a look at a few other similar questions, but they don't seem to be about the same scenario that I'm having) I have trouble with some systems at a remote office, connected via site to site VPN ...
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UNC Path Issues: One Way Only

So I have an interesting issue where I have a stretched Server2012r2 domain (all servers running Server2012R2 and fully up to date) that spans two data centers; let's call them SiteA and SiteB. The ...
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Why ZFS pool shows different 'Size' vs 'Size on disk'

So I have a shared drive (called 'Share_Drive') on an Ubuntu Server. The folder is publicly shared on my network at home. The two disks are in a ZFS Mirrored pool: But I noticed in Windows, folders ...
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Do I break anything by having a regular share targeting a DFS share's folder?

I have DFS installed on a single file server - I wanted to use DFS now so I don't have to migrate later when I get a second file server. I'm trying to integrate third party sharing software and I ...
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Getting error 1219 while there are no other sessions

PC's in our organisation run Windows 10 Pro and are sometimes shared between users (local accounts, no domain and AD). I have written a batch script that users execute when mounting our network ...
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Can't access remote shares on L2TP VPN

I've set up a L2TP VPN for my (Microsoft Surface Pro 4) tablet when I am at work so I can still access my files on my local server. However when I'm connected to the VPN I can't seem to access my ...
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Can't access windows file share

One of the computers in my office recently lost the ability to connect to a network share running on one of our servers. "Nothing changed" (don't we all just love that phrase) as far as I can tell; ...
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Why can't I see the file version of files in system32 remotely?

Here's the situation: I can RDP into a computer, go to C:\Windows\System32, and check file versions to my heart's content. Such as winlogon.exe, explorer.exe, etc. If I map the drive, and try to ...
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Prompt for credentials when accessing administrative share over network

I have an administrative share on a server called install$ (\server\install$). This share should be accessable only for administrators and helpdesk users since it contains installers from different ...
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SharePoint OneDrive & CIFS

I'm working on a project that includes moving users away from their network shared folder to SharePoint. Is there any option to have a user's SharePoint OneDrive cloud space live inside their existing ...
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Change network connection without hanging a program

I have a program on a remote computer that I run and if I change the network by specifying another gateway and dns address in the adapter proprietes the program works as usual, no problem will occur. ...
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Cannot access a shared folder on windows server 2012 R2 from a 2008 R2 machine

I have setup a simple shared folder on my windows 2012 R2 machine (Azure). It's not on a domain but I can connect to it from both windows 8 and another server 2012 machine without any problems. When ...
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Windows Server 2003 stops sharing a folder when the server reboots

I have a file server that will stop sharing a particular folder once the server is rebooted. This problem happened after the server went through a p2v migration. There are no events that seem to ...
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Network behavior of slow Windows shared storage

I have got on my hands 3 Windows XP file servers (their sole purpose is their SMB share) running on a office with about 50 users. The workload is only office usage: they use it to store and share ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Shared folders are very slow when uploading files

I have a little problem, I have a server with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition with the File Service installed, and a client with Windows 7 Pro. Everything works fine but the file transfert ...
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Cache writes with cachefilesd (non-shared mode) on Linux

I'm using cachefilesd as a read-cache for an NFS share. This is simple to set up and does what is says. However, I would like to also cache written files. I.e., if I write some.file, and then I read ...
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Can't connect to DC from workstation using File Explorer

Here's a small piece of my topology: SERVER2 - ePDC (SERVER 2016 Essentials) SERVER3 - Peer DC (SERVER 2022 Standard) RECEPTION - Workstation (Windows 10 21H2) SERVER2 is down ...
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How do I check a remote file systems mount permissions?

I'm mounting a test server to a shared filesystem at work. It's a cifs mount so im looking at this reference page: https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs I want to try and mount in a "know as ...
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Reliablely map network drive on Windows machine remotely from Linux machine

Background Fairly new to networking. I have two machines. One is a Linux machine running Debian (Computer A), the other is a Windows machine (Computer B). On the Linux machine is a Samba share and ...
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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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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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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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smbclient NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME with server OS SpinStream2

I'm trying to use Samba smbclient to connect to a file server managed by my technology partner, and I'm consistently getting this error message about tree connect failed. The exact details have been ...
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Gray Xs affecting one network folder

Preface: I realize this has been posted a few times within TechNet and other forums, but everything references either file sync or NTFS permissions, both which do not seem to be the issue unless I am ...
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qnap backup without creating a network share

Idea behind my approach is that crypto virusses attack every network drive they can find, if we can keep the backup drive 'hidden' than the virus cannot get to it. I have a small bash script that ...
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Accessing network drive with psexec

I have strange problem accessing network drive through psexec. Procedure is as follows: Windows Server 2016 with a network share open to Authenticated/Domain Users (\r530tc\pub) Windows 10 ...
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Remote desktop is not working anymore after changing Network access in Local Policy, Security Options

I've followed the instruction in this post and changed some settings on the server, restarted the server and now I can't do remote desktop anymore. I think the culprits are the last three things ...
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SMB share name changes case

There is some unexpected behaviour of Windows SMB shares. If a share is named all-uppercase, then it changes case depending on how you enter server name. Hence if there is an example share named "...
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Hyper-V External Switch and Windows Shares

I'm trying to make a Windows share available to an Ubuntu VM in Hyper-V while also allowing that VM to access the web for ongoing dev work (this is a local ansible host machine, which I don't think is ...
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Can I use DFS or a namespace to redirect the top level share e.g. \\server\redirect -> \\otherserver\share\some\path\

Let's say I have a share with a really long path. e.g. \\targetserver\share\folder1\folder2\folderIWant. I can use DFS to get a shorter path, e.g. \\server\shareFolder\folderIWant However, I was ...
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NTFS Permissions - Issue With Implicit Denial

I have a network of 4 VMs using Active Directory in a local domain: 2 DCs using Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, 1 Member Server using Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and one Client using Windows ...
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Virtualbox shared folder file permission

On windows host I run a debian server on virtualbox and I share a folder which is working mount -t vboxsf -o rw,,dmode=777,uid=33,gid=33 share /var/www/share I already done sudo usermod -aG ...
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OSX Home Directory permissions

I'm having some trouble with OSX setting odd permissions (Everyone/Deny/Delete) on users folders when they login to a Mac for the first time and I don't have enough experience with Macs to get it ...
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