Questions tagged [share]
Make a resource, such as files or printers, available over a network.
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?
I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple ...
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Mount Remote CIFS/SMB Share as a Folder not a Drive Letter
Is there any way to mount a remote CIFS/SMB/SAMBA share as a folder/directory and not as a drive letter. For example, I want this map:
\\Server\ShareName -> C:\Folder\ShareName
Instead of the usual ...
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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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Share /home between datacenters
I have two servers, placed at datacenters in holland and france. Both are running Debian Wheezy. I need to share /home between them, with good performance. There are 300-something users on the servers,...
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Best Pratices for a Network File Share?
So we have a file share that was started 10 years or so ago and it started off with the best intentions. But now it's gotten bloated, there's files in there that nobody know who put them there, it's ...
Chris
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Can't access windows share when in security group assigned to share
I'm a bit stumpped on this one.
I created a security group in AD called "special data users" and add myself to it.
I then created a share on a server and give that AD security group full access to ...
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finding ldd search path
How can I find the search path of ldd? Assume ldd returns
[mahmood@dhcppc2 bin]$ ldd /home/mahmood/amd64-linux/lib/scsi-bus.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc27c7000)
libpthread....
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How to remove a Windows share when the folder does not exist anymore?
I have some shared folders in the list in 'Computer Management' that point to folders that dont exist anymore. But Windows wont let me remove them, "The system cannot find the path specified", maybe a ...
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How do I reconnect to a UNC share using different credentials
I connected to my NAS using windows explorer, by entering \\DS412 in windows explorer. It prompted me for a username and password. I entered them and then the DS412 showed up under Network in Explorer....
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50 workstations, 1 .bat file on a network server, will it work?
I have a .bat file to perform maintenance on machines. I put the .bat file on a network attached server for all workstations to access it.
If I were to use the windows scheduler to make that .bat ...
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Why do "net use" and windows "map network drive" share have a drastic speed difference?
Why, when I copy a file (windows explorer copy, paste), am I getting ~100KB/s transfer rate from a drive mapped using the "net use" command in the command prompt and between 25-50MB/s transfer rate ...
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Allow access to Linux Console
Suppose one is running an SSH session into a GNU/Linux box of a client and he asks you to see "what you are doing". How can you allow this other party to see what's going on in your session?
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Windows 10 share to MS-Dos 6.22 failing after an update from Windows 7
Updated a Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 and can no longer connect to the network share on a dos machine. The MSDOS 6.22 machine is a piece of industrial hardware that uses a mapped network drive ...
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Where do you share or find useful powershell, bash, batch, vbs, scripts?
I just wrote a quick little powershell script to make my life easier for a task that I was facing. I thought it would be nice to put it on the Internet, where someone else may also find it useful. The ...
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How to view the localhost of another computer in the same network?
We have a team, working on a website. And I am planning to keep the files in one computer and let the guys access the files and folders, edit it, test it, view it in browser.
I am using WAMP Server. ...
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Samba4 [homes] share
I am having issues with the [homes] share.
OS is Ubuntu 12.04.
I've installed samba 4.0.3, bind9 dlz, ntp, winbind, everything but pam modules, and did all the tests from https://wiki.samba.org/index....
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Centralized administration of campus (AD domain) printers?
I'm looking for the best way to centrally administer (and track!) printing for our AD domain. I know Windows Server can be configured to be a "Print Services" server, but it's my understanding that ...
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Remove Cached UNC URL Credentials Win 10/Server 2012
I need to remove the UNC\URL credentials of a share accessed via IP UNC\URL from File Explorer. For example, last week I logged into 10.10.10.20\someshare, and now, when I go to it, I do not have to ...
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Windows File Sharing not working
We have a workstation on our domain that we need to share a printer from, and it's not working. I also set up a shared folder to help with testing.
Details:
We are on a domain. All operations ...
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Windows 7 : access denied to ONE server from ONE computer
We have a domain served by some Windows 2003 servers.
We have several Windows 7 Pro clients.
ONE client computer can't acces ONE member Windows 2003 server.
The other computers can acces every ...
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Do virtual private servers yield better uptime than shared hosting?
I'm running some websites on a shared hosting provider for $10/month. I've experienced a few downtimes in recent months. The tech support tell me there's nothing wrong with my site. The server ...
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Anything to share a printer from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows?
I've got a printer which only has 32-bit drivers, so it's installed on a 32-bit machine (XP). I need it to appear as a printer (with duplex control etc) on a 64-bit machine (Vista).
I can't just ...
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Default permission for newly-created files/folders using ACLs not respected by commands like "unzip"
I am having trouble with setting up a system for multiple users accessing the same set of files. I've read tuts and docs around and played with ACLs but haven't succeeded yet.
MY SCENARIO:
Have ...
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Handling user uploads to a web server cluster
We have a number of Linux web servers behind a hardware load balancer, which serve a single website.
The need has arisen for visitors to be able to upload files. The files are typically 300-700KB in ...
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How do I set up a shared directory on Linux?
I have a linux server I want to use to share files between users in my company. Users will access the machine with sftp or secure shell.
Here is what I have:
cd /home
ls -l
drwxrwsr-x 5 userA ...
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NFS shares dissappear after reboot of Windows server
I have a server running Windows Server 2016 with the File Server Role (NFS Server) enabled. On this server an iSCSI disk is mounted as disk S:. One folder on this disk (S:\EXCHANGE) is an NFS Share.
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Can I create a share on a Windows Server Domain Controller for anonymous Mac OS access?
I'd like to have a share on a Windows Server Domain Controller (2012 R2) with Mac software for folks on my company to install from. Not everyone who will have access to this share will have a domain ...
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Windows domain share permissions basics
Consider following share rights:
Security \\dev\profiles\
rw – Administrators
Security \\dev\profiles\bambus02
inherited AND
rw – bambus02
Sharing \\dev\profiles
rw – Everyone
as "bambus02", my ...
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How to force Samba to create directory
I need help with Samba configuration.
What I want to achieve is configuration, where windows user on share see only his files.
This is simply achived With configuration like this:
Users are ...
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Enterprise grade file sharing
Can anybody suggest any web based application ( enterprise grade) that will allow my internal users to share files with the outside world. Maybe something like yousendit, but I want to be able to host ...
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Windows Backup to network share (Server 2008)
I'm trying to setup Windows Backup on a Server 2008 machine to backup to a network share. When I run the wizard to setup the backup I get an error message:
The user name being used for accessing ...
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sql server trusted connection with windows 8 microsoft account
We have a few developers that work, connecting in through a VPN for access to the development SQL Server 2012. Historically they've used Win7 machines and develop the website against this database in ...
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Samba share with guest access and authenticated users for write access
I'm trying to get a shared folder to work. Everyone should have read access (preferably not even a password prompt should pop up when connecting with Windows), but a few selected users should be able ...
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Is there a way to find out the creator of a share in Windows?
A new share has been created on a server I use and we need to find out who created it and when. Is there a way to find that out? It's Windows Server 2003 SP2.
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Samba private and public shares for windows
I am facing an issue with Samba shares setup for windows use. I have two shares - 1] public share, which is available for everyone in the network, 2] admin share, which is supposed to be password ...
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How to restrict deletion of a folder on NTFS share, but still allow modify access within folder
I am setting up a set of scan folders from a scanning copier device, and would like to know the best way to protect the folders (for each department) from moving or deletion, but yet still allow ...
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Sharing SSL Certificates in a Cluster
Hopefully a very simple question, if I wanted several servers providing the same service to hold a certificate (e.g interface.internal.org) would the procedure be;
Generate Public/Private Pair on one
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How to let the users can edit in a shared folder but not let them to delete files inside
I'm an IT technician in a school. We're using DC and File server so the teachers uses a domain user by their own name. There are folders from the File server that are shared to the teachers to use, ...
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OSX 10.8.3 creating/editing files on Windows 7 share creates weird blocking account [closed]
I have a share on a Windows 7 machine that acts as a server. We have several people on Macs that need to create/modify files on this machine. When one of these people creates a file on the share ...
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Which network protocol use for sharing a storage to 5-10 mac client?
i can choose one between a Mac Server and a Synology Nas to share a disk for 5-10 mac clients (not windows) .
When i've to share storage, Which protocol is best suited for Mac World ? Afp, NFS, iScsi ...
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Removing a file from a network share not in the recycle bin?
A client has removed an essential file by accident from a network share,
the file is not listed in the recycle bin on that system and not on the server either. Where did the file went?
Client: ...
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VMware ESXi Share Datastore
I currently have a server running ESXi 5 and have 2x 2TB on the server. ESXi is installed to a SD card and two datastores are created (one for each drive).
I was wondering if there's anyway to share ...
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Two domains accessing same folder
I've just taken a new role in a school and am still familiarizing myself with their network, how ever I have recently been given a task and I'm having a little trouble finding out the fundementals of ...
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Windows Server - share files without access for administrator
We have a MS Windows Server 2008 R8 based server that is administrated by our IT department. We would like to achieve two things simultaneously:
A folder on the server, containing several thousand ...
Paweł
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Fault-tolerant network file sharing protocol
I have a server A which stores files, and a server B with an NFS-v3 mount to server A.
When server A fails to respond for any reason, any read request made on B will hang during a long time (several ...
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Reproducible file corruption for files on windows share
We have about 40 file servers in our intranet to distribute software packages.
The servers have names like example01, example02 etc.
Every name resolves to a single IP-address (A-record) and the IP ...
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Mac OS X system can connect to Samba share, but Windows XP can not
When accessing a server running Samba, Mac OS X opens a login window prompting for a username and password. With the correct username and password, I'm able to login and read/write to shares.
Using ...
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Windows backup operators and network access
I have a windows server 2019 hosting a shared folder I need to backup. My backup server is a linux machine and I always PULL the backups instead of PUSH.
I created a "backup_user" on my windows ...
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Using Rsync to backup a Windows Share
I have a Windows 7 box that I want to back up to an Ubuntu machine.
I have mounted a Windows share on the Ubuntu box (using CIFS/Samba), and I want to use a cron job to rsync what's on the mounted ...
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Samba share not updating properly CentOS
I have encountered the weirdest problem ever. There is a samba share on a CentOS fileserver (let's call it SERVER). There are two types of clients Windows 7 and CentOS. So what happens: I edit a ...
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