Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.

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Does Samba 4 come with an internal LDAP server?

Does Samba include capability to create an internal LDAP server? I am using Samba version 4.0.3 on Fedora 18, and it is installed from the package manager. How do I go about setting up the internal ...
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Mapping User and Group Ownership through LDAP

I am installing smb 3.5 on a CentOS 6.2 host using smbldap-tools. I've previously installed a similar configuration on RHEL4 using smb 3.0 but CentOS now uses nss-pam-ldapd and nslcd instead of ...
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Samba - Two users for different access

I have three harddrives and I want to have two permission groups: Group1: ShareDrive: Read / Write permission TVDrive: Read permission Personal drive: No Read / Write permission (ideally they can't ...
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Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 fails to save on Ubuntu 12.04 Samba server

On OSX 10.8.2, trying to save on a samba share using Word gives an error: Word cannot save or create this file. The disk may be full or write-protected. Try one of the following: Free ...
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What Samba settings to use for perfect emulation of Windows ACLs

Can anyone suggest what settings I should use with Samba to get full support for Windows ACLs? At the moment I have the following configuration: /etc/fstab: acl,user_xattr ...
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file locking problems with recent Samba versions (from DOS/Clipper under XP)

we have several DOS applications (Clipper) which share dbase files on a file server. The applications run under XP. This has worked for about two decades with Netware and for years with Samba (member ...
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Samba/Winbind: adding domain users to local groups based on domain group

I have a Redhat ES 6 server that's successfully joined to a domain via Winbind (i.e. I can login to the Redhat server using domain credentials with no issues). What I'm looking to do at this point is ...
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Samba Winbind User Resolution

We have successfully deployed AD authentication using Samba and Winbind (idmap_ad) across six Centos 6 servers and have been running happily for a few months now. One of the servers has stopped ...
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Speed up CIFS remote file shares

In my office I have a Debian server, a Ubuntu workstation, and a Windows laptop. I have a samba share directory on the server where I keep my source code. I access the files in this directory on both ...
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Samba deadtime not working

I have a server where I want to limit the amount of concurrent connections to Samba due to performance reasons. So I have max connections = 5 Which works fine. However, people who have connected ...
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Samba ignoring secondary group membership after upgrade - can I get this functionality back?

My samba server was running CentOS 5.6 32bit and samba 3.0.33. I upgraded the OS to CentOS 6.3 64bit and samba 3.5.10. After the upgrade I replaced /etc/passwd (& shadow), /etc/group and ...
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Samba share content filtered based on regex rules

I would like to create a Samba share that filters the contents of a directory based on a series of regular expression matches against file names. For example, I would like the share to allow access to ...
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How does samba usershare_acl parameter works?

Looks like it is not even documented on the samba website itself, or did I miss it?
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Samba password not persisting

I have a samba on debian setup with the following smb.conf [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP # Debug logging information log level = 2 max log size = 50 debug timestamp = yes ...
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Samba 4 and NFS4 home directories

First of all, sorry for my poor english. I have correctly installed Samba 4 on my Centos 6 server. Windows pcs join correctly the domain and users have their roaming profiles working good. In our ...
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Robocopy mirror to Samba keeps rewriting files

We have a Samba share to which I am copying files with robocopy /mir. Problem is the next time I try and sync that with robocopy /mir it copies all files again even though they haven't changed. I ...
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Samba printers installation

Is there any open source software which allows to install on the windows clients samba/cups printers from the web based interface? Something like Novell iPrint
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How to allow all users to be 'authenticated' by winbind

I'm facing a problem with the infamous NTLM authentication implemented on RHEL5.3 server using Samba (winbind). The problem is that we have a requirement to disable the authentication in a sense to ...
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Can't share files with Samba

In my local LAN, trying to share folders from my Linux Server to a Windows PC. Samba daemon is listening: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program ...
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samba treat user as other or ignores group permissions

I have a server running with Ubuntu 12.10 and several Clients running Windows 7. I use Samba as domain controller. Everything works fine except the shared folder. I made a shared folder and configured ...
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Trying to understand the guide for Primary Domain Controller Samba

I am setting up a Primary Domain Controller on a small office network. I am following this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/samba-dc.html I got it working on one machine a few weeks ...
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When a samba server shares NFS4 mount directory, window clients cannot copy file. ERROR: 0x80070021

The error reported by windows client is like this ERROR: 0x80070021 The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file. I google it and hit the samba bug ...
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How can I speed up my login on a Windows 7 machine to a Samba domain?

This is a problem related to Windows 7 machines using a Samba 3.5 domain. I have searched feverishly and found many solutions but none have worked. I recently re-imaged a computer lab I'm in charge ...
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Unable to mount samba share

I'm using CentOS 5 and I'm trying to mount a share, but I continuously receive the same error. mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system mount error(19): No such device I have samba ...
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Changing port of Samba server

I am using an Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I would like to change the port address of samba server. I found that it can be changed on /etc/init.d/smbd file by adding -p portnumber however when I try to start ...
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Samba and git permissions

For a project I'm on, I have a git repository cloned into a samba share. All of the files are owned by my smb username account. I need to be able to read and write to the files on my windows machine. ...
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Is there a way to share via SMB a filesystem mounted via NFS without disabling SElinux?

I have two CentOS hosts. The first is NAS and the second one is a diskless SMB server. The NAS server share folder via NFS and secure Ethernet connection with SMB server. SMB server shares content to ...
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Samba configuration for public shares

yesterday I upgraded my fedora box to the latest version, and with that, I also upgraded samba, now using samba 4. I used to access those share from any computer at home without user/password, but now ...
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How to grant full rights in smb.conf for subnet?

I have following smb.conf: http://pastebin.com/gCchZQvC Situation is that when I'm mapping my shares I need to login using my credentials to have ability to create directories and files. When I'm ...
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How can I fix this Samba setup on CentOS?

I'm trying to set a Samba share in /home/share on CentOS. I do not have great experience with setting up that kind of service. I've been following guides and recommendations here and there, but ...
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Samba: Access trouble from Windows

I am trying to access an NTFS (ntfs-3g) share from a Windows machine through the Samba 3 on Debian. I am getting this error on Windows when I try net use command: System error 5 has occurred. ...
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Mountain Lion Server - Permission denied when using mount_smbfs

I want to mount a samba share from a remote nas box on a mountain lion server. The problem is that the files should be accessible by the _www user (apache). I tried to use automount but was unable to ...
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hyper-v vhd file stored on centos samba server? [closed]

I've got CentOS running a samba server. I've got a Windows 8 Professional running Hyper-V. I'd like to store the vhd files of Hyper-V on a shared Samba folder (protected by a password). It seems that ...
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ACL mask assigned when a group member creates files/directories on a Samba server from Windows effectively make them read-only

Home directories are shared by Samba running on CentOS 6.3 with the following configuration: [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No inherit acls = Yes ...
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Create a Samba share in Ubuntu Server

I just have Ubuntu server installed and i want a SMB server. So i got Samba all set up but now i wonder how to create a 'share', in Windows you would just go to Properties/Sharing/Advanced sharing, ...
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Sharing folder from Linux to Mac, Samba or NFS? [closed]

When I need to access (read/write) to a folder of many files under Linux from Mac OSX, there are two options: Install Samba in Linux and share as Windows share Share via NFS Which one is the ...
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Folder Showing up as a File when viewed via Samba on a NetApp

we want to change files on our NetApp file server, and on every change of these files - a Debian machine duplicates the files to two other shares. Because of the duplication method we're using lsync, ...
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Samba share not usable by PHP-FPM?

I have a PHP-FPM and nginx setup that has been working perfectly on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04. The webserver's files are served from a directory called /www, which is set as the root of the server. ...
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Linux FTP to Windows Share [closed]

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server setup with DFS to another Windows server. I created a namespace called Linux with a folder called ClientFTP. Files added to the folder sync with both servers. Great. I ...
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Samba Ignoring POSIX ACLs

I have an Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS server running Samba, and joined to our Active Directory domain using PBIS (formerly likewise-open.) Samba is configured to do authentication using AD users/groups, and ...
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Windows Server 2008 Can't connect to Samba external share

I have a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 on a remote DC and another server running CentOS 6.2 (in another remote DC) which has a Samba configured too. From my local machine I can access the ...
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Install Samba 4 on Opensuse 12.2

Have anybody already installed Samba 4 on Opensuse ? Please show me how to do, because without that Samba, i cannot to execute CMD command or any script storing on Windows remotely by using winexe ?
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Delete files from command line using smb:// URL

I have a file with a list of smb:// URLs, like this one: smb://my_samba_host/data/need_to_be_removed.tgz smb://my_samba_another/data/need_to_be_removed2.tgz I need a command line (something using ...
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Two-way Trust relationship between Samba 3 and AD 2008 R2

Did somebody already make a two-way trust relationship between Samba 3 and AD ? I've got Samba 3.5 domain (ES02) controller and AD 2008 R2 domain (ES01) controller. Trust domain seems to be ok: ...
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How to use Active Directory's homeDirectory attribute for Samba?

I currently have a Samba share setup where I would like to share Unix folders with Windows users, with Active directory as the backend. I see that there is an attribute called homeDirectory in Active ...
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Winbind info shows local users that do not exist

I am setting up Samba on a Linux machine running CentOS 6 (called localhost, and the AD computer I am connecting to is dc.companyname.com), and I have done everything successfully, except when I type ...
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Samba Server on public IP, cannot network browse from pptp client

I have a Samba server running on an OpenVZ VPS with a public IP. I also have a PPTP server running on the same server. I connect to it from a remote Windows PPTP client. I have everything working ...
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samba_dnsupdate dns_tkey_negotiategss: TKEY is unacceptable

I'm trying to configurate dinamic update to bind I have samba4.0.0rc5 running with bind 9.8 on Ubuntu 12.04. by default the provision command dont create necesary dns.keytab. i've tested with the ...
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Samba users are writing files with the same owner

I created a Samba share and 3 users (Marc, Mary and Paul), both in Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) and Samba. Then I configured 3 Win7 computers to access the share, each with different credentials. I created 3 ...
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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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