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winbind from samba 3.6.3 on Linux works but does not integrate with OS?
Successfully compiled and installed the latest version of samba.
Started winbindd and the following diagnostic commands work:
wbinfo -p, wbinfo -c, net ads testjoin, etc...
However! when using ...
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win7 and win xp roaming profile
I have a samba server with WinXP roaming profiles and now I have to have some win7 clients as well.
Is there any trick which would allowed to login any users on Winxp and Win7 with the same profile ...
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High CPU load on QNAP TS-659
We have a QNAP TS-659 Pro+ Turbo NAS in our office. Its hardware/software is:
6x SATA II HDD (total 4.5 TB)
Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz
1GB DDR2
Firmware - 3.5.2 Build 1126T (latest available)
Linux ...
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How to hide shadow-copies in NFS shares?
I have a Ubuntu server with both samba and nfs-server.
The server does snapshotting for the exported directory
and the samba server uses the snapshots to emulate
shadow copies. ( vfs objects = ...
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Configure Avahi nss-mdns not to use local suffix with hostnames because of issue in mounting Samba share
How to configure Avahi & nss-mdns to resolve names in my small home network in the same manner as Windows does with NetBIOS or more recently LLMNR.
For Linux, there are two options:
Winbind aka ...
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SMB proxy: Connect to SMB server through SSH tunnel between two other hosts
I want localhost to access my company's SMB shares. These are located on a Win7 peer. This peer is running a virtual machine with Debian which itself is running an ssh daemon.
I can easily create an ...
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Authenticating Samba share with AD OU
I'm wanting to link Samba to Active Directory so that I can apply permissions to a share respective to the OU that windows user belongs to.
Im not entirely sure of where to start, I've currently just ...
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Samba authentication when AD is down?
I have succesfully added my Freebsd 9 to a Windows server 2008 R2 AD Domain.
Using samba 3.6.
The problem is that i want to be able to connect to the shares when the AD server is down.
Because the ...
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Add more ressources to Server service on Windows 7
I'm trying to configure Service service on Windows 7, to add more ressources to it.
In our infrastructure there is a Linux server, which has mounted partitions from a Windows 7 machine. Partitions ...
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smbclient NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on directories when Windows doesn't
I'm setting up BackupPC on a server and it uses smbclient to backup Windows 7 workstations.
smbclient logs in correctly to \\TESTHOST\C$ as TESTDOMAIN\backupoperator (Which is also a domain admin and ...
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Windows 7 files won't unlock sometimes on Samba file server
We're running Windows XP and Windows 7 desktops on our network, with a Debian Squeeze file server running Samba 3.5.6. Our Windows 7 desktops are having problems opening MS Office docs at times, ...
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Is it possible to limit Samba (or entire LAN) speed?
I've a problem with a mini server (Via epia c3 1ghz): when there is too much LAN traffic (in particular Samba or NFS files moves) the server reboots and continue to reboot until I unplug the LAN cable ...
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Samba share with guest access and authenticated users for write access
I'm trying to get a shared folder to work. Everyone should have read access (preferably not even a password prompt should pop up when connecting with Windows), but a few selected users should be able ...
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How to debug the integration of a Windows 7 machine into a Samba 3 domain?
We are running a Samba 3 domain (Samba 3.5.6) with a LDAP backend. Lately, we installed Windows 7 on a virtual machine (called schnellwienix) and joined the computer to the domain, following the hints ...
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Connectivity issues when running service with access to network shares on Windows 2008
Our OS is Windows Server 2008 R2. We are running a backup server on SERVER1. It runs as a service. We need it to access network shares on two other local machines (SERVER2 which is Windows Server 2003 ...
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Setting up separate raid5 on Debian
I want to set up a NAS/share with SAMBA on Debian(squeeze) with Webmin, and i want a setup like this:
2x40GB(IDE), in RAID1 for distro/debian.
4x40gb(SATA), in RAID5 for storage/NAS
This is just ...
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Samba problems with virtualization
I have tried ubuntu and fedora, in vmware and virtualbox and am having a consistent problem. File transfers to win7x64 (host) are full speed, but file transfers the other way, win7x64 to linux, are ...
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Using samba for svn repository
Is it a wise idea to access an SVN repository via Samba?
I have read of issues when one does that via NFS - is it the same for Samba?
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practical document encryption in shared environment
I can't seem to find a good, practical way to encrypt documents on a shared drive...
This is a samba share on centos using ADS auth. The primary doc format will be PDF.
Is there a good on-thy-fly ...
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Why isn't Samba authenticating an Open Directory username that arrives in all caps?
I have a Mac OS X 10.6 server that acts as an Open Directory master and allows file sharing from the Open Directory users' home directories. Today, for unknown reasons, it's stopped permitting our ...
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squid3 auth thru samba using ntlm to AD doesn't work
some users here are spending to much time exploring the WWW.
So big boss whats to get this under control.
We use a squid3 just for some security reason and chace benefits.
and now i'm trying to set ...
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Centos: creating new ADS samba share
I followed several guides to set up samba sharing on our domain. I've got it working where I can join the domain, list the shares, and connect to the samba share from windows. When I connect from ...
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Samba Network Drive + Mac OS X Lion?
I've configured a Samba server and Shared Folder on a remote server running Ubuntu. It works perfectly as a remote network drive on Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard clients, but won't connect on Mac ...
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Samba: Alias User In One Share
I use Samba to power my home fileserver. I have several shares, and I use local users to log in ("security = user").
Let's say the share "SpShare" is located at /SpShare. All files within the ...
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When the TCP engine decides to send an ACK?
In my LAN, I have a router that runs a Samba server and my PC connects to the router.
I wiresharked during a uploading to the server and a downloading from the server.
The wireshar results show ...
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Needs help to understand the wireshark results of a data transferring
In my LAN, I have a router that runs a Samba server and my PC connects to the router.
I wiresharked during uploading a file from my PC to the samba server.
Below is a shortcut of the wireshark ...
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Is it considered efficient to use your public_html directory as the same directory as your samba share? (NOTE: htpasswd is enabled)
I have a pet project to develop a browser based mp3 player. Most of it is in MySQL and php and then there's a flash based component. I'm using apache2. The path of my share folder in samba is
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SOLVED: samba 3.6.1 and Windows 95 [closed]
Can I connect from a Windows 95 client to a Windows domain using Samba 3.6.1?
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Add file type restriction in windows share of FreeNAS
Does anybody know how to add a File Type Restriction in a Windows Share on FreeNAS
In other words, prevent a particular file extension like .exe or .bat is to be copied in to the share.
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Set primary group of file or directory on Samba share from Windows
Short version:
I have such situation on a Samba share:
$ ls -lha
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 hka Domain Users 4.0K Jan 11 17:07 .
drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4.0K Jan 11 17:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 hka ...
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Samba SGID directories and delegation of privileges
What I basically want to do, is to be able to set SGID (setgid) on certain directories from Windows on Samba shares.
Reminder: Files and directories created within directory with SGID set inherit the ...
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smb.conf file location after make install
have installed samba 3.5.12 on my CentOS5.1.I have uninstall old samba files from my system using yum and download samba 3.5.12.After decompressing I took following steps
Code:
1- ./autogen.sh
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XenServer shared drive configuration
I have a server with below configuration
Intel Xeon E3 - 1230
2 * (Seagate 1 TeraByte) = total two terabyte
16 GB Ram
My Requirement : I need to run XenServer on this box and run 4 Ubuntu Virtual ...
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Linux server not connecting to Windows share suddenly
I have a Ubuntu box running in a windows LAN. The Ubuntu box has the following line in /etc/fstab:
//192.168.47.130/Data /hqserver cifs ...
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Looking for tutorial on FreeBSD based Samba server on ZFS filesystem with OpenLDAP backend [closed]
I am looking for a tutorial for specially:
FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS as storage (this has been done)
Samba as fileserver
OpenLDAP as user storage
I have set up a FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS for filestorage, ...
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Samba 3.3.x throws RPC failed error when trying to login to XP Client
I've got a Samba Server running on Ubuntu 10 that's a Primary Domain controller for a small domain of XP Clients. this server was working on Ubuntu 6.06, and I upgrades (6 to 8 and 8 to 10) and ...
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Samba/Cifs: Transferring executable permission bits to linux client
I'm trying to get my linux smb/cifs client recognize the executable bits that are set on some files on a share on a linux smb server.
Here is our setup:
Linux server exporting some directories via ...
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Why is samba denying me access to my drive installed newly on CentOS from windows?
I mounted a new drive on /New_drive my CentOS 5.7 box running Samba (3.0.33-3.29) and configured in fstab as follows:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
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Resolving samba server hostnames
I have a samba server and I want to access it by name from my windows machine.
Currently if I can use the ip address e.g. \\192.168.0.104 (although it does not appear automatically in network) to ...
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Samba drives on Ubuntu lost priviledges, directories now defunct, what to do?
I defined two Samba network drives to /mnt on a server. Our network uses LDAP authentication.
For some reason it seems like at some point the priviledges were lost. Now /mnt looks like
d????????? ? ...
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accessing a local SAMBA server from two ADSL connections
There are two ADSL modem routers (nothing fancy, TP-LINK) each with a local network of a small number (variable, but usually <10) of computers.
On one network, there is a SAMBA server on Ubuntu ...
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raid5 samba upload write slows down
I have Samba installed on a server, that has 8 2TB HDDs in raid5, os is debian 2.6.32, 64bit.
When I copy a 3.5GB file to the server, the first GB is transferred with about 100MB/s, but afterwards the ...
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Samba3 GPO Alternative
Samba4 isn't ready for production so I'm stuck with Samba3 but I want GPOs for my Windows 7 clients.
Is there a way to implement GPOs or something like it using Samba3 without resorting to manually ...
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Why does my user account keep getting added to the Samba database on reboot?
This is a cross-post from Ask Ubuntu, but because it's not specific to Ubuntu and since I haven't gotten much of a response I wanted to ask it here as well.
I have my Samba server setup to use ...
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Why data sending is heavier for CPU than data receiving?
I have a Samba server configured in my PC.
When other PCs in LAN download data from the server, top command shows smbd occupies 75% CPU.
While they transfer data to the server, top command shows smbd ...
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Mac data Backup-ped via SAMBA instead AFP: is it a bad thing?
i've a QNAP Nas, but at the moment the AFP protocol seems to be bugged. I've an office with 5 mac who saves data into a Mac Server. I want to backup data via Samba protocol to the Qnap Nas Server EXT4 ...
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Samba and Windows 7 HomeGroup
I read about HomeGroup for Win 7 in this article.
And I'm wondering is it possible to join Samba server 3.x to Win7/HomeGroup?
As I understand rightly, the smb protocol was not changed for ...
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Linux (ubuntu) as NAS permission help needed
Ok, i have a user "nas" on my ubuntu server. In his home directory i have a "shared" folder but I also want to let a user create their own folder at this level for personal use. so any user that logs ...
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Samba WINS server registration timeout
OS: Debian 6.0.3 amd 64
Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64
Samba: 3.6.1
no iptables,no selinux
my LAN only this WINS server
here is testparm output
[global]
workgroup = group
server string = File ...
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Make files editable for guests without using chmod
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, or if it has been posted before. I couldn't find anything though.
If I log on to a linux server without supplying a username or password (from windows ...
