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Samba WINS server with two networks

How can you confirm if SAMBA is really setup as a WINS server ? How can you tell SAMBA to have two differents WINS server. My debian server has two networks (eth1 (10.45.13.0), eth2 (10.45.15.0)). I ...
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Sharing drive contents using Samba - What harddrive format? [closed]

What format should my harddrives be if I am putting them in a ubuntu server with the intention of sharing the drives contents using samba to other PC's, Macs and linux PC's? I don't know if I should ...
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samba library failed to download the shared files of Mac osx

I have tried to download the shared files of mac osx using smb from my ipad but it fails with error( unable to open the file). But it can download all windows and linux shared files. I tried this ...
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Random gigabit bandwidth with my Samba fileserver

I own a personnal Fileserver, build on an AMD X2 platform, with an intel gigabit CT network adapter, running debian 6.0. I've built a raid5 (2To x 3), shared by samba 3.5.6 From my desktop computer ...
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samba is not starting/working

I've tried a lot of things and I am at the end of my wits here. I ask humbly for help. Basically smbd daemon refuses to start I run sudo service samba restart Stopping Samba daemons: nmbd smbd. ...
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How to bridge two networks enabling NetBIOS for samba discovery

I am not quite sure if the title is correct and if that is what I need to do, but here's my question. I have the following network structure (sorry, not enough reputation to post images): network ...
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Hide visibility of Ubuntu File Server

I have a ubuntu Server 11.10. I have setup SAMBA. I'm using Mac and on the left panel of finder there is a heading called shared. All the servers and computers that are connected on the network are ...
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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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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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I have a Flask app running on Mac that will need to manipulate files on a samba share, how do I ensure that it will always have access?

I'm writing an internal tool for my company that will need to probably always have access to a samba share. How can I always ensure that the drive is mounted at the same address /Volumes/... or have ...
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Can I have a Samba Domain Controller create a local account on a user's machine on login?

Our network has a Samba Domain Controller that works fine. However, when a user logs in I want a new profile created on the Windows Machine so that, in the event that the Domain Server is down, the ...
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samba not working on one interface

I am going a little crazy trying to get Samba working and would really appreciate some pointers. It's quite possible that I have misconfiged some part of the network configuration too. I am running ...
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Samba as a Domain Controller - Pros and Cons

I am planning to move everyone in our corporate office to domain control using samba on ubuntu but have doubts if this would be beneficial to us both for the IT Department and the Company. I have ...
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When Does the Linux & Windows' Samba Port Connection Close?

After connecting to a samba share, then disconnecting, netstat still shows that the ports are ESTABLISHED, even when the clients are on SUSPEND, HIBERNATE, or have SHUTDOWN. Looking over the samba ...
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Unable to see Samba server by netbios name

We have a linux server set up with a number of samba shares on our mixed windows/mac/linux network. The shares are accessible if we go to \\192.168.x.x\share, however we can't access the server by ...
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Computer not showing up in network (Samba and LDAP configuration)

For some reason I have not been able to pinpoint yet, going to Network on my Windows 7 computer, the Samba server does not show up. I have configured Samba with LDAP and managed to successfully ...
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Need help on setting up a small network

Please refer the image at http://oi51.tinypic.com/1zd6r9h.jpg We are about to setup a new network for our lab and following are the servers we are thinking of having File server (Samba) SVN ...
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Samba networking with a domain-joined computer

I have two computers connected to the same linksys router - one running Ubuntu 8.04 and one running Windows 7. The Windows computer is part of a work domain (when connected via VPN). I'm trying to ...
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Can I get simple name resolution on the local network without DNS, on a Mac?

I've got Mantis running on a Linux VM with a Win2k8 server host. I installed Samba with the following configuration: [global] workgroup = COMPANY netbios name = MANTIS security = share Now on all ...
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help mounting network storage drive

i have a windows share that i am trying to copy stuff over to from a bash script. i can browse to the network share through KDE's "network" browser, but am not sure how do to access this filesystem ...
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Print from Linux to Windows networked printer

I want to print from a Debian (Lenny) workstation to a Windows networked printer. I'm not even sure what type of Windows network this is. Our tech-support is friendly but doesn't want to get involved ...
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What could cause messaging with Samba to fail?

Got a Linux and Windows (XP and Vista) home network going. Windows print/file sharing with Samba and native WIndows stuff seems ostensibly to be going fine. But when I try to "net send" (via ...
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network share encryption

what is the best practice to share network drives (samba or windows share based) with encryption? Simple PGP based key encryption? Or maybe with RSA token? Anybody, share your experience on this!
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Windows7 - “The specified network password is not correct.” when the password is in fact correct

I have a samba server setup for some time now. It is a Hardware NAS - which unfortunately does not provide access to the Samba logs. (the exact model of the NAS is called Addonics NAS Adapter ) I ...
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Problem with samba shares / smtp server on local machine after apt-get upgrade

I have a pressing issue... I was silly and ran apt-get upgrade on our debian domain controller / internal smtp server and now the users (on WinXP & Vista) cannot access the network shares or smtp ...
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Samba server or client?

I'm trying to connect a linux computer to an existing Windows network. Do I need to run the samba server or should the samba client be sufficient?
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Home networking for 3 computers (Windows and Linux) [closed]

I want internet connection and folder sharing among 3 computers. One is always on and directly connected to internet (Win XP Pro). Currently it shares Internet connection with just another Windows PC ...