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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Samba internal network fileserver (without passwords)
I'm trying to setup very simple file server with Samba.
Security is not concern, as server is only accessible from internal network that's why my configuration problem looks like this:
[global]
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How to share folder in ubuntu server for windows users, everyone?
I have started samba daemon on ubuntu server 9.04 with following config:
[share]
comment = Share
read only = no
path = /share
guest ok = yes
Windows users can browse share, but can't create /...
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Can't access Samba share on Windows Server
I have a set of production and non-production Windows 2003 servers. I want to initiate a file copy between one of the production machine to a samba share on a Linux machine. I can access and mount the ...
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Mac computers unable to connect to samba
I have a Ubuntu 9 server with samba 3.3 installed. This server has two network interfaces, one to a "public network" which I do not have any control over and another to a private LAN.
On the private ...
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text editor reloads when saving over samba
We've been running Red-hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, for in house web development work for a year.
The basic setup is a shared folder (www) over samba that we use to access our web files.
When our ...
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Having trouble with Samba and NTFS on a CentOS server
Hey guys- got a little samba server running for a small personal file share, and was having some trouble with a very specific scenario. So let's take it from the top:
My samba server is a CentOS 5.3 ...
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Install Samba in Fedora -- for Dummies
I'm currently using Parallels so that I have Windows XP (host) and Fedora 8 (guest). I like to share folders between the two OS. Parallels has a feature that allows to share folders only if the guest ...
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Samba4 User password is not updated correctly via LDAP message, only via smbpasswd
I have set up a Samba4 AD DC, and I can successfully authenticate with my Administrator user from .net code:
var directoryIdentifier = new LdapDirectoryIdentifier("127.0.0.1", 636);
var ...
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Active Directory for linux servers
I have 7 ubuntu servers and a Storage server on freebsd. I am considering deploying OpenLDAP on one of these 7 servers so that these servers can have a centralized user database and authentication ...
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How to configure samba+winbind with AD redundancy?
I work for a company that offers a software solution for network management. Part of the solution is proxy authentication. An already legacy option in our software, is to configure a proxy to use NTLM ...
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How to delete a domain user with associated folder rights?
Right now when I delete a user from the domain I get left with these folder rights remnants that I have to remove manually. I've noticed this on both Windows and Linux driven data servers. Is there a ...
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How do I enable WideLinks on samba's recent release?
Note: I am aware of the security issues and reasons why it's been changed. I still require the use of wide links.
Samba's recent versions have made it where WideLinks are now supposed to be loaded as ...
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Adding SSL certs to Samba from CA
I have a wildcard SSL cert from A CA that I am trying to get to work on my samba ADDC. Samba will fail on Samba restart when smb.conf looks like this:
tls enabled = yes
tls keyfile = tls/...
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Samba Winbind - Windows Server AD - Users are able to see each other's home directories
I'm running AlmaLinux and Samba Winbind joined into Windows Server 2019 AD. The domain users have home directories and a pccommon directory (shared folder).
When I create a new domain user in the ...
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access based share enum not working as expected
On a long-term (2years) Arch Linux server, I am running a small samba configuration with several shares.
I would like users to only see the shares which they have access to - which is why I am using ...
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How to mount a shared directory in linux [closed]
RaspberryPi
Samba Server
Share directory: jack
Host Computer
Mount (read/write access): jack directory from RaspberryPi
I have this task , its a connection between my RPI and my host computer , I have ...
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Access denied when listing Samba shares
I've installed Samba to share files with Windows 10 machines. The setup works correctly to access individual shares using their path such as \\myhost\sejf, but listing shares on \\myhost fails with ...
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Windows Server 2019 accessing shares over VPN for some users
I'm using Windows Server 2019 and have setup a OpenVPN 2.5.4 Client as a service to start a VPN link back to my pfSense box at another location. The problem is only some Windows Server users can ...
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Samba clients able to delete each others files. How to block
I have applied sticky bit on Samba share directory. Now client is not able to remove files and directories created by root of Samba server,
The issue is many clients access the same directory share ...
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Samba installation fails, missing directories
I tried installing samba on my debian server, and the installation failed with
$ sudo apt install samba -y
Preparing to unpack .../samba_2%3a4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking samba (2:4.9....
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Upgraded Fedora, now Samba trouble: How to properly configure Samba on Fedora Server 32?
I replaced my aging server with a new one, a completely new build, (so perhaps "replaced" would be more accurate than "upgraded") but of course I harvested all the old config files,...
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Windows 10 to Linux Samba over VPN, strange directory listing issue
We have a client that has two sites connected via VPN, one of the users has moved from one to the other taking their computer with them.
When they connect to the server at the old site it connects ...
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How can I create or access a remote file as if it were local?
In general, I would like to run local programs on remote files provided to me via a distributed file system (e.g. samba, NFS or whichever you recommend), and I want to access the remote files in a ...
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Translating HEX ACLs into permissions
I'm trying to write a script to scrape Samba share ACLs from my Ubuntu server machine. I've been using smbcacls to read permissions per file/folder. When a user only has RX or WX permissions, it's ...
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Passwordless authentication to Samba server
I have a Samba server in an openwrt router and shares configured usng smbpasswd with no guest access.
I have two Windows 10 pro computers both in the same workgroup as configured in Samba.
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Samba server not showing up in linux nor windows
I've installed samba on a local server we have to share files across the network. It's started fine, but not showing up on the network at all. I can't even get to it by trying with the IP in linux nor ...
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Losing access to LAN devices when connected to a VPN
I have an ubuntu VM running on Hyper-V which connects to a VPN service. When the VM is connected to the VPN I am unable to ping / connect to the host machine. Samba mounts won't get mapped, ping ...
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mount_smbfs ignores default file and directory permissions
I mount the remote folder on my MacOS client with:
mount_smbfs -d 0774 -f 0774 //[email protected]/NAS /Volumes/NAS
However, newly created files are still created with the default UNIX permissions....
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how to add permissions with samba
i have a samba file server on ubuntu server for my windows pc and when i try to write on the shared drive it says that i need permission to do that. i have done this:
sudo chown nobody:nogroup /var/...
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How to add permissions to windows user in samba on ubuntu server
I have this samba network drive configured in ubuntu server for my windows computer and i want to make it so i can read/write but other users can not read or write to the network drive. How can i edit ...
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Samba4: ACLs inheritance: owner group will be changed to "domain users" in new created files/dirs
Samba Version 4.3.11 on Ubuntu Xenial server (16.04)
In smb.conf I have:
Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER
[global]
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inherit permissions = Yes
inherit acls = Yes
# I needed this due to ...
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Samba share accessible but access denied
I have the following samba config (Centos7):
[global]
netbios name = HomeAssistant
server string = The HA File Center
workgroup = WORKGROUP
hosts allow =
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Samba doesn't apply allow/deny on config reload
On a Ubuntu server with a SAMBA share, I am trying to allow access from some IP addresses and deny from others.
I configured smb.conf as follows:
[global]
server string = %h server (Samba, ...
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Can't update computer policy from samba DC
I'm trying to push out a CA cert to my clients, but their group policy isn't updating. When I try gpupdate /force, I get:
Computer policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were ...
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Cannot Delete Samba 4 AD User Groups
So I created a Active Director Domain Controller on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine, and everything works great except I don't seem to be able to delete anything.
I connected my Windows 10 machine to the ...
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One Windows 7 computer gives access denied to one Samba server
Our network is a small peer-to-peer / workgroup, no domain controller, no AD. We just added a new file server running Fedora 27. This server has several shares on it. All shares are accessible from ...
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Unable to write to a writeable samba share
I am running the latest stable samba 4.6.4 on a Ubuntu 17.04 server, and although I have my [homes] shares set to read only = no and writeable = yes (and SElinux is disabled) I am unable to have the ...
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aws samba mount error: host is down
We have an AWS ami Linux (2017.03) EC2 instance with several shares hosted locally in our office mounted as folders with cifs. Mounting these drives always works, no problem.
/etc/fstab:
//<ip&...
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Debian to Windows 10 samba share
This user can't sign in because this account is currently disabled
That's the error I get whenever I try to access a samba share hosted on a Debian box from my Windows 10 domain PC.
If I make the ...
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Samba file shares - how to get all the files that changed since a given time in the fastest way possible?
I have a huge list of samba shares that are in format like
\\10.1.5.3\Share1
\\10.1.5.3\Share2
\\10.1.5.4\Share3
\\10.1.5.3\Share4
... thousands more of these ...
I have indexed these folders' ...
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Samba - can access 1 share but not the other. Same config
Running samba on centos. Setting up some shares and having a curious issue. Same config for two different shares, I can access 1 but not the other.
[test2]
path = /usr/test2
writeable = no
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How to gracefully handle a Samba share going offline?
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS web server that mounts a Windows file server via Samba. The web server need to be able to occasionally perform tasks that interact with the files on that server. However, we ...
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Can Samba 3 still be used?
I am struggling with a trust relationship issue between a windows 7 machine and my companies samba 3 domain controller. The issue is only arising when I try to add a domain user to my machine for ...
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What is the minimum version of Samba that will connect to a Windows Server 2008 domain controller?
(Yes, I know I need to upgrade to a considerably more modern version of Samba. Assume that's not feasible right now for a variety of reasons.)
Assuming Windows Server 2008 (or R2) is the AD Domain ...
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ntlmssp_handle_neg_flags: Got challenge flags[0x60898205] - possible downgrade detected! missing_flags[0x00000010] - NT code 0x80090302
I'm trying to access SMB/CIFS resource on NetApp, using following and getting error:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
$ rpm -qa | grep ^samba-
samba-client-4.2.10-6....
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Unable to mount shares on Ubuntu client from MacOSX server via SMB
I'm trying to mount shares from our OSX server (10.11.5) onto my linux client (Ubuntu 15.10) after an upgrade to the server took place. Prior to the upgrade I was able to mount these directories ...
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Wanting Cifs / Samba to restamp times with server-time for "mv" commands
Short background
I have built a small cluster of linux machines and been creating and running scripts for distributed computing. After having gotten some basic things up and running now I'm tuning ...
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WindowsNT.3.5 domain: location of homes
Context: I am working with a Samba PDC (not AD mode) which emulate a MS NT Server 3.5.
My problem is with the following line on smb.conf:
logon home = \\%L\%U
This line makes users mount a home ...
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Samba 4 not shows new files
We have a Debian 8 file server with Samba 4, and there is a network printer-scanner, which send the scanned documents to the server through FTP in PDF format, and in the server the the Scan folder is ...
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Not getting credential prompt on Win Server 2012 for Ubuntu Samba share
I set up a share in Ubuntu with read/write permissions using system-config-samba. I configured my user to also be a smbuser.
On all of my other systems (2 Win10, 1 Win8, 1 Ubuntu) I am prompted to ...
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