Questions tagged [share]
Make a resource, such as files or printers, available over a network.
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How to share VPN and DHCP server across multiple hosts?
I need to set up a small computer network for what is effectively a satellite office for a business. The small network consists of several workstations and a server. The server machine has two ...
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Can I use DFS or a namespace to redirect the top level share e.g. \\server\redirect -> \\otherserver\share\some\path\
Let's say I have a share with a really long path. e.g.
\\targetserver\share\folder1\folder2\folderIWant.
I can use DFS to get a shorter path, e.g.
\\server\shareFolder\folderIWant
However, I was ...
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File Server - Hostname vs. FQDN
I have a problem with a File Server at Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Operasion System. When my user browse a network share with FQDN she can't see the files, but if she browse it without FQDN (only ...
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DFS share(s) not visible for some Citrix SBC users
In short:
Some Citrix SBC servers are experiencing the following problem
When logged in to a Citrix server and browsing to a mapped drive (eg. drive D: (mapped as \domain.local\namespace\share)) the ...
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Network shared Folder randomly disappears for a user
We are running a Windows 2012 Server as DC and Fileserver that is accessed by Windows 10 Clients.
The rights management for our shared folders is handled through security groups.
A few weeks ago a ...
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nfs-kernel-server keeps failing in Ubuntu
I'm trying to create NFS share in Ubuntu 14.04 strictly following this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo.
root@srv:~# service nfs-kernel-server start
* Exporting ...
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SBS 2003, shared calendars
We have a client who use shared calendars throughout the organisation but any time an invitation is sent to the owner of the calendar all users with access to the calendar receive the invitation too.
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File property information (last write time and file size) in explorer out of date by hours over network folder share
An application is running on a windows XP prof machine picking up file from a network share from another windows machine. It detects that the file has been updated (by date and time or optionally ...
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Auth fail on Samba server with LDAP backend
I'm trying to configure a Samba server to simply use LDAP backend for authenticate users. Just that, I don't care of PDC/BDC, etc.
The samba schema is present in the LDAP, and in the users profile. ...
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Network Share slow during high use but it's not as simple as it seems at first
We have half a dozen or so Windows 2008R2 boxes sending SQL backup files to a dump share on a 2008R2 file server over the weekend. There is a dedicated nic on the file server for this operation and ...
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usernames in nfs share between nfs server (CentOS) and nfs client (Ubuntu)
I have a NFS server (CentOs 6.9) and a NFS client (Ubuntu 16.04). I have installed nfs-utils and rpcbind on the server. The server configurations are as follow:
/etc/exports
/home 192.168.1.11(rw,...
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Samba Share on remote machine
I'm with the following environment:
I have 3 computers: A machine working as a storage (Ubuntu 14.04) (Khan), a Samba Server (Ubuntu 14.04 with Samba 4.3.9 with a NT4-like Domain) (Vader) and a ...
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Windows Server 2012 Printer Management
I want to add a shared printer connected to a host IP (192.168.0.10,windows 7) , to a server (192.168.0.200,windows server 2012). When adding a printer using the Printer Management just the IP ...
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Share and NTFS Permissions on a File Server
I have a folder A and inside two files B and C
What I need is that the user "XPTO" as access to read B and write on C.
Usually I give the permission "list folder contents" on folder and then give a ...
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Why can't Win7 user move files, instead it just copies them on Samba share?
I'm running a CentOS server with Samba. Connected on the LAN is one Windows 7 PC and the rest are Macs and Linux. The Macs don't have this problem, but on the Windows PC when a user attempts to move a ...
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Which settings apply to a folder connected via junction?
Which folder permission and folder sharing settings apply to a a folder "connected" within another folder via junction, or symlink?
Lets assume we have two folders residing in drive D:. D:\Main D:\...
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Windows 8.1 keeps prompting for Network Share Credentials after every log on or restart
I have a Network drive Shared in a Workgroup with 3 clients. Two clients with Windows 7 have persistent connections to the Share. No issues with those two.
My windows 8.1 client keeps prompting for ...
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NAS share not accessible using a CNAME from Windows 2008 R2
I have a NAS filer share say \xyz.abc.def.com. I am trying to access the share from Windows server 2008R2 Server.
We have a CNAME xyz.def.com pointing to xyz.abc.def.com.
I am able to access the ...
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Cloud Storage/Remote Storage - Windows 7 Embedded
Currently I am running "Windows 7 Embedded" on a few Thin Clients (HP T5570E). I would like to store all user files running on the clients on a remote server (Not local). I have attempted using "...
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Scripting access permission to Mac OS X 10.6 managed services
On Snow Leopard, I can give access to services like SSH only to specific users by using the "only these users:" option in the sharing tab of the System preferences.
This is bothersome to use when ...
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Is IIS caching DFS referrals under a different context to my local user account?
We're migrating the main media store for our website to a new server. I'm investigating using distributed file system (DFS) to do this, so that instead of replacing all the hard-coded references to \\...
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windows symbolic file links arn't followed through network access
I have a server with win7 and a big share on
C:\share
In this share there are many symbolic links to files on other local disks like
C:\share\file.txt(symlink) <-> D:\file.txt
I can access the ...
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IIS 7.0 Session Sharing among different applications
We have created two web applications, one nested inside another(Our main web app is the outer one, and we have a cms inside, or below it). We're trying to get session sharing between the applications(...
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Manage Windows File Share Permissions with Local Group
Here is my situation: I am a Local Administrator on a plain Windows XP machine. Due to organizational issues, people want to run a Windows file share on this machine.
I thought it might be a nifty ...
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File sharing/permissions scheme for students/teachers/staff?
I've recently inherited administration of an Xserve running OS X Server 10.5.8. I have a specific need for teaching staff to access the home folders of students via network shares. Ideally in groups - ...
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Subversion for web designer: repository on a network share and ftp to the live server?
My configuration:
htdocs on a windows network share (z:)
web developers check out with dreamweaver modify and check in back to the drive z
LAMP running on a Ubuntu server virtualized on Hyper-V with ...
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Windows 2008 File Share
I have 3 Windows 2008 Standard servers in my system with no domain controller. Two of the servers are running a NLB cluster and the third server is a file server that the web servers connect to. I ...
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Company Servers Unable to Communicate Between One Another (On Same Network)
I want to make sure and provide as much detail as possible to try to get this resolved or at the very least, figured out. If you need more information, please let me know and I will happily provide it....
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Network drives autoplay
I am having some trouble figuring out what some SMB requests to an AutoRun.inf file are.
My situation is this, i have a fileserver Windows Server 2016, and all my workstations mount a shared drive ...
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Connect a Linux directory to Windows
At work I am trying to figure out how I can connect a Linux shared directory (Samba) to Windows Servers. We have files stored on this Linux server that we try to access from a dotNET application on a ...
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Samba username mapping not working as desired
I have the following username mapping in Samba:
master = johndoe user2 user3
regular = user5 user6
restricted = johndoe user8 user9
By default, Samba will always map johndoe to the last entry in ...
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NFS server is exporting shares but is not?
I'm running a Lubuntu QEMU VM under Bunsenlabs Lithium (Debian 10). I'm testing different ways to share folder with NFS. First created share was OK, but the host refused to share the second folder.
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I'm trying to find the printer share name with the IP address of a network connected printer
I often need to find the Windows print queue name or share name of a printer connected to our network using just the IP address of the printer. I can use PowerShell to list all of the printers on a ...
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NFS4 works on one server but not the other
I have 2 VMs, both running debian buster. One is a test VM, the other my production file server. On both I installed the nfs server package through "apt install". I created a share on the ...
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Personal user folders in a Share
I had to do a restore of a fileserver and the permissions got lost for our personal folders.
Structure is like this.
\fileserver\share\usernames.
I need to set permissions so that each user has access ...
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Samba file: User can access one share, but not another despite identical permissions & smb.conf config
Using Debian 10 Buster (specifically version Linux HAL 5.4.28-odroidxu4 #20.02.7 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 26 23:36:03 CET 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux)
I have an external drive mounted using an entry in /etc/...
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Moving files to a mapped drive is far slower than direct network share
There is one Windows 10 Pro (1909) Client in our company network that is experiencing an odd behavior.
Moving files to a mapped drive brings up to 40Mbs and is therefor much slower in comparison to ...
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linux shared folder for all users php not working mod_hive suexec
Feel free to educate me - I'm migrating from a windows server to a dedicated linux server with apache 2.4 and centos 6.10 ... all users on the server are actually ME, so this part is not a security ...
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Access network share remotely without routing all traffic through VPN tunnel
I would like to be able to access a network share that is running off my Windows Server 2016 Datacenter server remotely. I realize that I can create a VPN server by using the Remote Access feature and ...
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How to add permissions for user for only one directory inside another directory on Samba?
I'm newbie in Windows. I have a Windows domain controller on samba. On this controller there are some shares. Each of this share has configured security group with full access. Group G1 has full ...
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Server 2012 smb share without login, and share edit permissions
So i just installed server 2012 on a proliant microserver.
So far i've managed to set everything up, this server isn't running any advanced setup. Hell i would probably be fine just running win8 on it....
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Weird Issue with File Server
I've got an odd issue I can't seem to resolve.
We have a file server on our domain. At random intervals certain users simply cannot access the shares that are set up, whilst other users can. We are ...
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Unable to connect to port 445 at one location. All other subnets can connect
I have run into a weird issue that i just cant seem to figure out. One of our servers is a file server and is accessible by \servername\ or by \X.X.X.X\ from every remote location aside from the one ...
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Deny access to change file extension in shared folder?
Is it possible to deny users from changing files extensions in a shared folder?
I'm asking that to try and avoid ransomware infection.
I will deny people from changing file extensions inside the ...
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windows 10 share not accessible from same client with domain admin account
On a Windows 10 client I have a shared folder with full folder and share access for the local admin group (which is member of the domain admin group).
I have an account that is member of the domain ...
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Many-to-one windows file share sync
I am currently migrating an old file server I inherited which contains user data shares, there are numerous file shares configured with user home directories, for example:
\\server\users1\joe.bloggs
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Share Permissions: Why can a group access a share, but not members of that group (Windows Server Environment)?
This is a Windows Server 2012 environment. Several 2012 DCs with just one 08. I have one primary share for everyone.
Through "Advanced Sharing", the groups have full permission, including ...
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samba4 no access to share over domain name on win7
i have installed and configured samba4 on ubuntu 14.04 and Remote Server Administration Tools on a fresh Windows7 (client).
Samba4 is configured as a Domain Controller with DNS.
On Win7, when I open ...
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Can I specify a port when connecting to a Windows share?
I have a network setup like this (Windows File Server) <-> (Windows Gateway) <-> (Workstation).
I am trying to allow the Workstation to access a share on the Windows File Server.
I was ...
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Why does Windows XP run applications from network shares so much more quickly than Windows 7?
I have multiple clients that run all sorts of (mostly badly-designed) software off network shares. The design of the software is such that it's intended to do so - the server runs the database locally ...
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