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Ubuntu Server 12.04: Write Files via Samba with Group Ownership
I have a shared samba drive set up on my virtual machine guest running Ubuntu Server 12.04.
\\ubuntu\www
The file path /var/www has the permissions www-data:www-data set up.
My user name abe is ...
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Samba + LDAP: Newly created users cannot log in
I'm having a problem where users which recently were created are unable to log in, even though they have been added to the correct groups. When viewing the error logs, I'm getting these errors:
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Windows 7 cannot join samba domain
I have a 3.5.6 samba server with a LDAP backend (both on Debian 6.0). I've been successfully adding Windows XP machines to the domain for years. I now try to add Windows 7. I have made the recommended ...
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Is it possible to use htaccess for samba user control?
I have a htaccess file named mypasswdw as
user_a:encrypted_password_a
user_b:encrypted_password_b
And is it passible to use this file as samba password file?
If then, how to write the smb.conf?
I ...
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Internet Sharing solution
I have a client that is a business. The people at this business are not in anyway computer savvy. I was asked to make a file server for them. This server will need to have four shares with a ...
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Securely mounting a Samba share from a VPS on a local machine
In my own little slice of the internet, I have a share that I want to serve up so I can mount it on my system at home and work with files as if they were local. I have this setup as a Samba share at ...
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How to Enable Full-Rights File-Browsing on /?
Now, I know there are lots of samba questions (about 1400) on ServerFault, and I have browsed through about half of them at least, and not been able to use any of the answers to solve my problem.
We ...
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How to Make Windows Network Visible to Linux Server Box?
Salvete! I have a machine running CentOS 6.2. In the GUI, if I click on "Network", I get a messagebox saying: "Unable to mount location - Failed to retrieve share list from server"
I can ping the ...
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Weird dying of samba child processes
It is Samba 3.5.8 on Ubuntu Natty server with kernel 2.6.38-15-server. The server and samba service ran without problems for months.
Since approximately 2 weeks, all samba child processes ...
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linux share (samba), how to list all shares with the path to local directory actually shared
Is there a practical way, e.g. net command or other cli to get a list of all shares defined on a Linux server (Ubuntu distribution) listing not only the share name but also the full path to the local ...
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Giving full permission on samba share (Amazon EC2)
I have two ubuntu ec2 servers - let's say ServerA and ServerB.
ServerA has a large EBS attached to it and it's shared via Samba. This EBS is mounted to ServerB on /var/www/static. If I create file ...
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Automatic wake on LAN in Linux when accessing remote filesystem
I have a small server which runs Ubuntu, running webserver and other things, and as such is on 24/7. It also serves as our file server for the majority of frequently used files, serving files through ...
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How to debug Samba authorization (authentication) procedure
I'm running a small home network linux-based server which acts as an internet router, torrent client and file server. I have problems connecting Windows clients to server Samba shares ('user name or ...
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How do I configure Debian to use available physical memory to speed up Samba connections?
I want to maximize the speed of the connections by using more of the available RAM that we have in our server (there's 4GB worth). What files would I need to edit, what directives would I need to add, ...
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smbd won't start or stop when user is elevated to root by SUID bit
Under Ubuntu 12.04, I've written the following C program to help me shut down my server's apache2 and samba services while I run automated backups. Notice that in the Makefile I'm setting the SUID bit ...
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Linux AD workstations not populated in Domain Master Browser
We have a mixed environment with a Windows 2008 Server as a DC and Linux/Windows/OS X workstations/servers joined to the domain. The problem is the joins (domain memberships) are OK, browsing works, ...
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Samba permissions for copied files
I have Samba running on a plug computer running Debian Squeeze which I'm trying to configure to act as a web-based file server.
The machine runs Lighttpd for the web server, and Samba for the file ...
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I compiled samba 3.6.4 on Solaris 9, and can't get smbd to run
I compiled the latest release of samba on a Solaris 5.9 system to address CVE-2012-1182, and I'm getting this result when I run smbd.
fs17151# ./smbd -i
smbd version 3.6.4 started.
Copyright Andrew ...
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Samba domain trust errors on a specific interface
We have a windows domain that also has RHEL member servers in it. All the servers have a primary network connection to the LAN, but some servers also have private dedicated links to one of our RHEL ...
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Samba SWAT doesn't support include statement
When I use Samba SWAT to change the smb.conf setting, I can't find include statement.
I then try manually change smb.conf:
[test]
path = /mnt/test
available = no
include = ...
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Detect if clients are connected to a network share
we're running samba and nfs servers on an Ubuntu LTS 04.10 machine. Is there a way detect on the server, whether any client is connected to one of the shares? The clients are Windows 7,Linux or OS X ...
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Parallels ignoring added registry DWORD values?
I'm attempting to join a Win7 Pro machine running on lion through Parallels 7 to
Parallels is set to use briged ethernet adapter, DNS has been set to our internal servers, can ping the domain ...
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Isilon Storage & Mac OSX samba connections
So we have a Isilon Storage Cluster, and both Windows and Mac Clients connecting to it. Windows (for obvious reasons) connects and performs extremely well using SMB.
OSX on the other hand, does not. ...
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Slow data transfer from shared folder on Ubuntu 11 Server
I have a Virtual Machine running on VirtualBox, on which I installed Ubuntu 11 Server (I left it "plain vanilla", it just runs Apache and MySQL). I created a shared folder with Samba and I can access ...
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ENOEXEC on CIFS in SUSE
I am trying to execute a program on a CIFS mounted partition in SUSE 11.1. Whenever I try executing it, I get a "could not execute binary file" error. Using strace, I was able to determine that the ...
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Directory permissions on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS
I have set up a second drive on Ubuntu Server. The directory displays correctly but Windows users cannot write or create files on the directory. I have Samba set up so Windows can access the drives. ...
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Development on Windows 7; Web server on Linux - How to share Apache web root? [closed]
I've got a LAMP server that I want to use as a local web server.
I've got a Windows 7 machine that I want to use as my development machine.
The machines will be on the same LAN (or the Windows box ...
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SBS backup to linux share
Im currently looking for a solution regarding backing up windows to a network share which is located on a linux machine (Shared trough samba).
I cant get it to work with the current setup (SBS backup ...
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Shared folder access from ubuntu is too slow
I've a NAS. From a windows machine it takes 1 or 2 seconds to access shared folders. From Ubuntu (11.10) it takes half a minute only for shows me the credential dialog box and another half to log in ...
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Two samba servers and UID,GID mappings across them
I have a samba server and just installed the second one to configure a reserve file server.
It all went well and both of them successfully are on Active Directory domain (actually SAMBA 4)
the ...
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An Active Directory Domain Controller for This Domain Could Not be Contacted with windows 7 laptop
I have server running zentyal. And I have a problem with joining my domain. The problem exists with only my laptop. I've tried some other pc's and they successfully join the domain.
All the machines ...
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Samba: Connected clients unaffected by group/share/user access changes
We are trying to solve what we perceive as a problem with the behavior of our Samba server. Please understand we are not claiming this is a bug in Samba. It is simply different from the behavior we ...
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Is it possible to use SELinux MCS permissions with Samba?
Created a user1:
adduser --shell /sbin/nologin --no-create-home user1
passwd user1
smbpasswd -a user1
smbpasswd -e user1
semanage login -a -s "unconfined_u" -r "s0-s0:c0" user1
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Terse, documented, correct way to create Kerberos-backed user shares in Greyhole
As a migration strategy away from Windows Home Server (which is currently out of support and intractable for our needs, for a variety of reasons), our little cloister of nerds has targeted Greyhole ...
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How to Queue Samba Transactions on Serverside
We have a 20TB samba server with 2x10TB RAID5 à 2TB harddisks.
There are a lot of connections which result in much seek overhead.
My idea is to queue the clients without them recognizing it.
Is there ...
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Weird “File in Use” errors on Win7 when renaming hard-linked files via Samba
I have a process on one Windows machine that produces a bunch of more-or-less randomly named files. These files are written to a share on a Samba server, but the names make it a real pain for anyone ...
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Wrong owner and group for files created under a samba shared directory
I am trying to make writing to a shared samba directory work. I got a very weird problem. Now the shared directory is writable from a client machine. But the files created under the samba share ...
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NAS Performance: NFS vs Samba vs GlusterFS
I am planning my new shared storage infrastructure for a small webserver farm. Therefore i ran a lot of tests with a lot of NAS filesystems. By doing so, i got some unexpected results and would like ...
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Samba server performance issue
I recently set up a samba server on a ubuntu desktop to serve a shared directory to another four ubuntu desktops. They are in a Giga-bit LAN. I am getting crappy performance from it and I am feeling ...
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Samba Server as domain controller
I am using centos 6.2 on my system. I want to make samba server as PDC to join the clients computers operating systems i.e xp,windows 7 and share their files & directories.Currently I have 200 ...
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One samba directory is very slow
We have a RHEL server running as a Samba server for our Windows network which has been running fine for ages. All of a sudden this morning one specific folder became really slow and sometimes ...
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Samba shares show up when viewed from Windows 7 but not on Mint Linux
I have a windows 7 pro workstation and a linux mint 12 workstation. They are both on the same subnet. The domain is WORKGROUP.
I shared a directory in windows 7, and then shared a directory in mint ...
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Samba directory listing a folder suddenly very slow now the folder contains more than 2tb of files
I have a server running Debian stable on which i keep my film archive at home.
Its been performing quite well for the past 6-9 or so months since i installed it, but for the last couple of days it ...
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How to empty Samba cache on Linux machine?
One of our Linux machnes (Debian 5) uses Windows shares mounted via cifs.
Each time, when the credentials are changing due to security policy, shares begins to be inaccessible for several hours, or ...
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Create a share with System Rescue CD
I'm trying to grab some files off of a computer that no longer boots to OS.
On the SRCD computer:
I put in SRCD, boot, and make sure that I can ping the other computer (say I set the IP to ...
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Joining Linux cloned VM to Active directory
Joining Linux host to Windows AD is widely documented.However I struggle to find any guides or best practices on how to join Linux clones that were already members of the domain.
Naturally things ...
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SSO for linux/AD Windows 2008
I have multiple CENTOS servers that are all currently working off of a local /etc/passwd for user account control and have local home folders etc.
This makes it a pain when users come on board leave ...
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How to configure Samba to allow root user for full control to the particular share?
$(subj), it appears to be what root user is denied by default for all of the shares.
I'm trying to reproduce Windows administrative share.
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Is it possible to automatically lock a file on Alfresco when editing via samba?
My question is pretty straightforward.
Using OpenOffice or Microsoft Office, is it possible to automatically lock a file for edition on the Alfresco file system via Samba?
For example, if a user ...
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How do I pass credential file to mount.cifs?
I'm maintaining a heterogeneous network of mac and linux so I decided to create a little perl script to unify mounting strategies across machines.
The current implementation in linux is in /etc/fstab ...
