Questions tagged [samba]
Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.
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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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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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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 ...
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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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Password expires 45 days even though 'Password Must Change' is set to 'never' (Samba+LDAP)
Since a few months ago Samba ask each of our users to change password at log on every 45 days (the default) and I have not been able to disable it. This setup had been running for 2 years before then ...
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How many folders you can mount on centos from windows shared folder using Samba with CIFS protocol
Currently I have an interesting problem to solve:
In short I will need to pull custom text application log files from server windows servers (Mixed environment of windows server 2008 / 2003 sp2 64bit)...
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Samba with active directory groups with special character
I've got a problems with Samba and Active Directory groups which contains special character like '@' ' ' (space).
For example, I've got a group which name is : 'name.surname [email protected]',...
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questions regarding setting up a samba server
I want to setup a samba for file sharing in my intranet, but I want to know if there is any way to prohibit some kind of files (e.g *.exe) uploaded to the share folder? And I want to know if there is ...
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Issue with mount.cifs in Ubuntu [while accessing Windows samba share using a localServerUser]
I am having a hard time figuring out an issue while trying to mount a windows share in Ubuntu 10.04.
Issue:
The problem is I am not able to mount a windows share using a serverLocalUser present in the ...
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Can Samba veto files,except specified directory?
OS:debian 6.0.3 kernel:2.6.32-5-adm64 samba 3.6.1 here is my smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = Workgroup
server string = Share Server
hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24
wins support = yes
dns ...
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Multiple users writing to one Samba mount point in OSX
I have an OSX box containing a script which writes a unique file to a Samba share. The first part of the script mounts the share.
On the machine are 2 users- UserA and UserB. Each requires to run ...
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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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Fedora join to AD DS (svr 2008): NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME
I have been attempting to join my Fedora machine to my 2008 AD DS domain (testdomain.lcl) for some time now. I have followed this article:
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6
But with no luck. I ...
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Uploading to a Samba Share at less than a MB/s?
I have a Debian box on which iv plugged in a usb external hard drive formated with NTFS. This HDD is 2TB. I mounted that usb drive using mount:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdf1 /media/backup
I then shared ...
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Win Server 2008 force kerberos setting
I am currently facing the problem that a linux machine running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with samba and winbindd installed is unable to join a Domain, that is managed by a Windows 2008 DC.
The linux config, ...
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Modifying umask for all users not functioning
I have modified /etc/login.defs and set the umask to 002 but it fails to be changed when I exit or logout and log back in. My bashrc file does NOT contain any umask settings.
from /etc/login.defs
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Connecting to samba share through win7 Home(!) [closed]
Ok, I've tried everything. Changing LmCompatibilityLevel , configuring samba on every possible way but still win7 doesn't see my server. When I try to map my drive it wants authentication but It doesn'...
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Domain Admins do not have Administrative rights on Windows Server 2008 using Samba PDC
Members of Domain Admin using CentOS Directory Server as backend do not have Admin rights in Windows Server 2008. I have joined the domain, see that the users are populated, and can login using LDAP ...
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Configuring a truly world-writable directory for Samba
I have a directory on a linux server, where my user owns all the files, and only a certain directory is world-writable. All other directories are read-only for guests. The idea is that anyone should ...
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Samba: How do I set passwords for the users in the username map?
I want to map a large number of login usernames to a few unix users, so I guessed the username map config option is an appropriate way.
I enabled it for a particular share in smb.conf:
security = ...
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Samba public share - access denied
I'm trying to configure Samba for sharing public folders - without necessity to log in. I'm using Fedora 16.
$ smbd --version
Version 3.6.1-74.fc16
Config:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
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Sharing folder across network
I have 10 linux servers and i would like to set a folder in one of the boxes for shared access.
1 server will contain files and I want 9 of the other servers to be able to read from and write to the ...
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Windows clients unable to access Samba share on AD joined Linux box every 7 days
The problem:
Every 7 days, 2 Windows Servers are unable to access a SMB/CIFS share. It will start working after a handful of hours.
The environment:
OpenFiler Linux box joined to 2003 AD Domain
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Unresponsive mdadm
I have a raid 5 mdadm raid array set up with 6 drives and a hot spare on an Ubuntu 11 server. There are a couple samba shares on the drive, and until today, they were working well.
A couple hours ago ...
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Samba shows each file several times in the same folder
I have Samba 3.5.11 on Debian/kfreebsd sid. (Also tested with 3.6.1 from experimental)
I have a zfs filesystem Storage/Photos.
If I open one the the folders on there (Storage/Photos/folder1) it shows (...
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Reinstall smb / samba [closed]
Is there a way to reinstall smb & samba as if it was a clean install?
I am having so much problems with accessing Windows Share directories on my Ubuntu 11.10 (with Gnome 3 Shell) that I want to ...
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rsync fails with error: Cannot stat destination... cannot allocate memory (12)
I am trying to rsync some directories on my linux server to a Windows 7 share mounted locally on the Linux server at /mnt/backups.
My rsync command looks like this:
rsync -avz --progress --partial --...
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How can I clear the "authentication cache" in Windows 7 to a password protected samba share?
I have a Linux samba server and have explicitly listed users that can access the folder.
I have successfully congfigured Samba to require a username and password when accessing the share from windows ...
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mac osx lion samba3 installed, not visible in windows 7 network list
so here is the thing.
i have installed samba3 on my macbook pro (osx lion) if i go to my windows pc and i put \\<ip of mac> into explorer bar this works i get the list of shared files.
But now ...
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CIFS cuts off end of file
I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 server, on which I am sharing a folder. In the folder is a file that I am trying to read and import the data on a SLES 11 SP1 server. If I view the file on the ...
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samba stuck at maximum of 1024 open files
I'm running a Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) samba fileserver. I have a Windows 7 client which opens a large number of files while doing a copy of thousands of tiny files at once. It receives the error "Too ...
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smbpasswd: Failed to add entry for user
tl;dr Assuming a basic (but functioning) LDAP/PAM configuration, how come smbpasswd fails with this error message when I try to add an existing UNIX/LDAP user to Samba?
I have a basic, but working ...
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Enabling Samba Shares Across Subnets
I was curious how I could go about setting up SAMBA so that shares could be seen and used across different subnets. We have some Linux devices that are bound to Active Directory and we would like to ...
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Why can't the storage_share access my samba share? (ubuntu server 11.04)
The title says it all. I can't understand why the user can't access the share. My other user can but he's the owner and all. I'll post the samba logs and configurations here below.
smb.conf shares (...
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Debian Samba server reports free size of root drive, not all drives
I am running a Samba server on a Debian box. It works fine; Windows can read and write to it just fine, but there's one issue.
The folder I'm sharing over Samba (/var/samba) is stored on my main ...
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Looking for advice to find the bottleneck of Samba server
My LAN structure:
A PC acts as a Samba client, IP: 192.168.1.12
A NAS router which runs a Samba server, IP: 192.168.1.1. The NAS router uses a USB key as its storage device and the USB has a 15MB/s ...
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samba: config issues
Am trying to add a samba server to my home LAN. Several problems are emerging:
1) When I try to 'net view \<server> it appears to be routing to a machine outside the local network. Everything ...
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Filename Case issue with over WebDav
We are accessing SAMBA shared directory from a Windows Client with WebDav client WebDrive. But we are having the issue that it is showing same contents in both the directories ( data/ & Data/ ) ...
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joining domain - store password and avoid prompting password
While joining a domain from a linux machine , I give this command:
net rpc join member -U Administrator.
Now, the above command prompts for (Administrator) password.
Now, I wish to store the password ...
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create workgroup and join the same workgroup from Linux
Is it possible to create "workgroup" in a linux machine and join the same linux machine into that workgroup?
my understanding:
smb.conf in /etc/samba/ have an entry name workgroup which can be ...
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Samba, NTFS drive and win7
I've just added to my unix server ( just shoved it in) an ntfs drive with some stuff and I want to access it through win7 (home edition). After a small struggle I've managed to get access to the ...
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PHP Script for end user to change Samba password
I'm looking for a PHP script that helps users change their own Samba password on a server. Basically just an interface to smbpasswd. The user would ideally enter their samba username, current password ...
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Samba: Give each user his own folder
how do you configure the smb.conf file, so that each user added to the Samba database has it's own folder, which is not his home folder?
Say I have a folder placed in root, called Samba. Within that ...
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Is there any way to view the internal mount point of a samba cifs from windows?
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To be accesed from windows, I have a samba cIFs called \data\cnd\video it points to this path of the server: 10.50.2.80/vol/conten_delivery_network/videos is the any way to view this path ...
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How to reduce Samba CPU usage on CentOS server?
We run a small CentOS server as a test environment with staff connecting to it via Samba shares (from a combination of Macs and PCs).
The smbd service is utilising 5-10% CPU per user - which seems ...
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Is it safe for a single directory/file to be served by two separate samba daemons simultaneously?
The situation is this:
I have a Debian server which acts as a web/mail server as well as an
Internet gateway for a small office. All the externally available
services run on OpenVZ virtual ...
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Samba default permissions not respected
I'm almost ready to tear my hair off (At least i have a decent amount of it :P)
I built a Ubuntu 11.04 box at work for all the development team to work on it. Everything working fine so far but there ...
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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 share folder ... user can read/write but cannot delete files
I intend to setup a samba share server that all user can write files to but they can not delete files was put in that folder.
Which configuration is suitable for me!
Thanks in advanced!
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