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Default file permissions when copying from Windows share to OS X
I have an issue that I haven't been able to find an answer for. I have a handful of Mac designers here that started using a program called Articulate to generate flash objects to embed on our ...
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Mac OSX Lion: Switch on SMB share depending on network connection
we have a Scanner that can save the scanned documents to an SMB share.
So I need to switch on SMB sharing on the Mac - should be no problem.
Issue: The Mac is a MacBook, which will also be used in ...
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How to automount SMB share in OS X [migrated]
I am running OS X Lion. I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:
//darren:q@acid/home /acid smbfs nodev,nosuid,auto
If I run mount -a, the share mounts correctly, but if I just reboot the ...
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Mount Mac OS X 10.7 share on CentOS?
I need to create a mount point/share on a Mac OS X 10.7.4 (non-server) machine that a CentOS 5.2 box can mount. I've searched a ton but most instances are for using a linux server and Mac client... ...
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How do I diagnose whether SMB access with Windows Server 2003 server and Windows Server 2008 R2 client is actually slow?
We have a file server in our web hosting environment that runs Windows Server 2003 SP2. The web servers all need to access this common file server to retrieve some files. The web servers that are also ...
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Developers are experiencing very poor performance with Windows explorer, particularly adding/deleting files, over VPN to Win2k3 share
We have the following arrangement: Dev Site <--vpn--> Prod Site. The Prod Site firewall, running pfSense 2, accepts VPN TCP/UDP traffic on SMB ports 135-139 and 445. Our developers can connect to ...
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Source of TreeDisconnect Request
A client is experiencing network issues on one particular PC in a small peer-to-peer configuration (3 PCs total). After running Wireshark, I see that a TreeDisconnectRequest is sent from the problem ...
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Set UMASK for file share in Mac OS X Lion Server
I recently upgraded my file server from Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.7, and now I am having a problem with permissions. Specifically, whenever a user edits a file (in excel at least), the owner is changed to ...
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How to mount a windows administrative share on linux via SMB
I'm currently trying to mount a windows shared drive under linux.
The machine is using windows 7 and by default it shares all windows drives if you login as an administrator. I've been able to login ...
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Scanning to network share
In our environment we have several printers with the scan to folder functionality set up. It worked pretty well. Long story short- I needed to reboot our file server one evening (the server whose ...
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Isilon Storage & Mac OSX samba connections
So we have a Isilon Storage Cluster, and both Windows and Mac Clients connecting to it. Windows (for obvious reasons) connects and performs extremely well using SMB.
OSX on the other hand, does not. ...
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How do I find out what version of SMB is enabled on a remote host?
My local machine is running Windows 7, which supports the latest released version of the SMB protocol (SMB 2.1). I also have a remote host, and I don't know what operating system or SMB-support ...
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Move samba and ldap config to new machine
I'm not advanced administrator so this may be n00b question but I'll be grateful for help.
I have following problem: I have to move my server (ubuntu server) from old machine to new. I have samba ...
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Windows Server 2008 push and pull speeds different
We've run into a weird issue today when copying files from a Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) to a Windows 7 Prof. client. If I initiate the transfer from the Server 2008 box I'll get 80-100MB/sec which ...
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linux renames folders automatically
I have a file server with ubuntu installed
It is accessed usually through smb either from pc (ubuntu) or laptop (windows 7)
Sometimes it happens that folder names on the file server are changing to ...
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SMB over IPSec prompting for credentials
I am trying to connect our web server to customers SQL/file server through a VPN tunnel. Originally we had setup a PPTP VPN and I was able to access their file shares without issue.
Since PPTP ...
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Sharing a symlinked (`mklink /d`) directory via SMB?
I have a Windows 7 amd64 box where one directory is shared:
local path is d:\drop\
remote path is \\aloism\drop
from SMB point of view, Everyone has Read and Write permission
ACLs for the folder are ...
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Slow SMB/CIFS to/from Win2008R2 Server
Dell R710 w/ Intel 82576 gigabit NIC (latest Intel drivers). I'm setting up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 & so far I've installed updates & configured the File Services & Web Server ...
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Re-label Windows Volumes to get round re-creating all shares
I am in the process of migrating all the data from one (1 TB) volume (not C:) on an AD server to a new 4 TB one. I have copied all the data including the FolderRedirection and Profile stuff as well as ...
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How to configure Samba to allow root user for full control to the particular share?
$(subj), it appears to be what root user is denied by default for all of the shares.
I'm trying to reproduce Windows administrative share.
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Secure way to mount a password protected cifs share in mac
I'm maintaining a heterogeneous network of mac and linux so I decided to create a little perl script to unify mounting strategies across machines.
Actually, I already have a working perl script, ...
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Are there any MFPs with Scan-To-Folder for less than $1000? [closed]
The title pretty much asks the question: Every MFP with the ability to scan to a SMB share with an editable file name I'm finding is more than $1000. Do cheaper ones exist?
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Windows 8 and SMB2 Issues
We're playing with the consumer preview of Windows 8 and having issues accessing some network shares in our environment.
Basically, when I attempt to access a share directly ...
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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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How are CIFS and SMB related to each other?
Are they synonyms, or components of a protocol stack?
Answers with proof links are welcome.
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SMB SSH tunnel using putty client painfully slow
I've set up an SMB SSH tunnel using putty SSH client to edit my webpages directly from the server on my windows machine (also because my virtuazoo server doesn't allow NFS).
Even setting blowfish as ...
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Accessing CIFS shares from an OS X machine incredibly slow
This is a longshot, because this issue seems over-reported and unanswered on the internet (see references below), but it is about time this issue is permanently solved.
The facts:
Server: Windows ...
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SMB/CIFS shares and file-creation latency
I have web application that accepts an uploaded file, writes it to a share, and then sends a message to the middle tier with the name of the file for processing. There have been sporadic errors in ...
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Debugging slow SMB packets from a specific desktop client
I'm having some serious problems locating a slowdown, and I hope you could assist me with this.
We have an office network with ~50 clients and a main file server running Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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SMB proxy: Connect to SMB server through SSH tunnel between two other hosts
I want localhost to access my company's SMB shares. These are located on a Win7 peer. This peer is running a virtual machine with Debian which itself is running an ssh daemon.
I can easily create an ...
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What write and read size do srv.sys and srv2.sys flush to ntfs.sys in SMB 2.0 on Windows 2008?
Reading http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/Perf-tun-srv.docx on page 47 the interaction between the SMB drivers (srv.sys on SMB 1.1 and srv2.sys on SMB ...
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Samba Network Drive + Mac OS X Lion?
I've configured a Samba server and Shared Folder on a remote server running Ubuntu. It works perfectly as a remote network drive on Windows and Mac OS X Snow Leopard clients, but won't connect on Mac ...
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Use Apache as an HTTP proxy for SMB/CIFS links (Bonus points for Synology solution)
Am I doing this right? Situation:
a file server (FILE_SERVER) containing a share with a bunch of documents.
users can access files on the share either with
afp://FILE_SERVER/SHARE/path/to/doc
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TCP/IP ports necessary for CIFS/SMB operation
If I want to allow Windows networked drives between two firewalled computers, do I need to open ports 137-139, or is port 445 sufficient? I have to submit a form and get approval to open firewall ...
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Windows XP cannot execute binary file on Network Share
I'm having a Network Share provided by a Mac OS X Lion Server on a recent Mac Mini Server (CIFS / SMB); mounting the share in Windows (XP) is no problem, reading and writing neither. But when ever I ...
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PHP-CLI cannot execute scripts on Samba Share (using cifs) inside a guest VM (Centos 6)
I have a centos 6 VM running as a guest within Virtualbox.
I've set up a LAMP stack which I am able to access from the host (Windows) environment.
I've mounted a SMB share using 'mount -t cifs' and ...
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Why can't I connect on port 445?
I need to collect baseline performance data on a SQL Server running on Windows Server 2008 R2. When I open perfmon on my computer running Windows 7 and try to add counters from the remote server, I ...
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CUPS Print Error Returning HTTP Forbidden for Send-Doc
My workstation is Ubuntu 10.04, which is also running server components, like CUPS.
My Linux SecureCRT -- http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/ emulator won't print the screen. SecureCrt ...
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Group Policy drive maps fail with Error Code: 0x80070043
I'm running a Server 2008 R2 domain with all Windows 7 x64 bit client machines.
All drives are mapped using Group Policy. Which were previously on a NAS
We just built a new, huge, fast server. So ...
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Why Do Certain (Ubuntu) Applications Prompt For SMB Printer Password?
I have an SMB connection to a Windows printer; the password is embedded in the connection. Certain applications, like gedit and vim will print to the printer without prompting for a password. Other ...
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2008R2 DC owning PDC FSMO role does not become Domain Master Browser
last Saturday we promoted a new virtual 2008R2 server as dc and transferred all FSMO roles to it. Today we spend all day chasing down a problem with the domain browser function.
First some ...
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PROPFIND requests from a Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/6.0.6002 user agent on Apache server where Samba is also running
Ok, here is the context. We've a server which is inside our network; on the server there is a Samba configured, providing access to a number of shares; there is also and Apache server providing other ...
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SMB Alias Lookup on Windows XP
Should Windows XP be able to do a SMB lookup on an Alias.
I have an XP machine that cannot find the files on \Alias but can find them on \host.
If I do a ping or nslookup it can resolve the Alias.
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Setup OpenVPN solution, how to configure it
I have a SMB client where I need to install a VPN solution. I have one CentOS server that has 3 network connections , one is an Internet connection that comes from a router. It has 10.x.x.x address ...
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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 ...
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OS X SMB Connection to Windows Server 2008 R2
I support many Macs that connect to an SMB share on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Occasionally I find that the Mac will try to connect and fail. The connection process will skip asking for ...
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OS X 10.7, shell scripting to Windows Server 2003 shared folder
I have a remote WS2003 machine that I can remote into to manage an IIS server.
For convenience I also have the app root directly as a shared folder which I can mount in Finder on my OS X laptop.
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Windows samba share: drop cache after DNS change
Suppose I have following entry in hosts.cfg file:
1.2.3.4 test # foo machine
I start script that every second call ping test and cat \\test\share\machine-name.txt
Script output: IP: 1.2.3.4; ...
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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 ...
