Questions tagged [network-share]
A shared resource or network share is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer, typically via a local area network or an enterprise Intranet, transparently as if it were a resource in the local machine.
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Samba share suddenly stopped showing on Windows
I have 20 computers in my office network and all the computers run windows10 except one which is running Ubuntu. I have setup a samba share on that machine so that others can access the share drive ...
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show mapped drive as shared folder
I have a mapped network drive and backup folder inside it.
O:\Backup
But I can't share this folder like \\localhost\backup
Is there a way to share a folder in a mapped drive?
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share two network interfaces on linux
I have a Linux PC (ubuntu 22.04) with a network layout as below:
Internet <-> Router <-> PC <-> edge device <-> Switch <-> APs <-> devices
And with two Lan ...
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Not able to access an SMB share
I have a shared folder on server1.domain1.com, which I can access from server2.domain1.com using my account domain1\user without any issues. This confirms that the file share was created correctly and ...
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Grant local impersonation user permission to share
We have a domain connected server (Windows Server 2016) named STORAGE. The server has a local "impersonation" user created by our Autodesk software called AutodeskVault. This user is only a ...
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Shared drive for Windows EC2 intances launched within an autoscaling group
I am looking to be able to share a single network storage between my fleet of Windows EC2 instances that are used as application webservers running IIS. These instances need to be able to access the ...
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What the difference between print server and shared printer
i planning to add new print service, but i don't know add a new role ( print server ) or just shared printer(smb) will better?
i planning shared to windows and Mac
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How to change links from \\myserver-old\sharedfolder back to \\myserver\\sharedfolder?
We replaced an old server with shared folder with a new server.
We had a shared folders on server with network name \\myserver
Admin renamed it to \\myserver-old (not sure what method he used), and ...
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Accessing Windows file server by alias name
What could be the possible problems with accessing a Windows file server shares using a DNS CNAME instead of the actual computer name? The file server is joined to an Active Directory domain, but is ...
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Trouble debugging user access to Windows SMB shares
I am having trouble with 2 PC of my domain, both on Windows 10 1909, which I'll call "01" and "02", using a domain service account (called "s_automate" to connect to a ...
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Windows Server 2019, Hide or Disable file history (Shadow Copy) for users in active directory that accessing a network share
tl;dr; We need to disable or hide the file history for active directory users who access a network shared folder, so that only the IT team can restore files to previous versions.
We have a small ...
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Diagnosing samba fileshare issues with TP-Link router
I have a LAN with a TP-Link router (AXE5400, 3 months old), a Mac Mini (2020, osX Monterey) as file-server, and Windows 11 Laptop and a Macbook Pro laptop (c. 2020/2022). Both the Windows and Macbook ...
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Samba: shared directory is accessible, but shared NTFS drive - not
I have Samba server installed on a CentOS 9 Stream machine and I am trying to share an external USB HDD, formatted in NTFS. This is my /etc/fstab record for mounting it:
UUID=880AFE920AAB7B8E /home/...
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Samba server - single user connection limit
Is there a limitation for samba server to allow multiple connection's from single user? (Multiple PC's connecting to same samba server with same account)
User was created through smbpasswd -a [...
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Windows folder share permissions
I suppose this is straightforward but can't get a solution for it. When i share a windows folder (server 2012) and set its permissions (share or ntfs) then if someone from the network writes "\\...
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transfer file from Unix to a writeable Windows share, if I don't have direct login rights to the latter
I'm an sa on Unix side, and there is a writeable Windows share, which I can access from my desktop using an AD service account.
How can I batch a file transfer from Unix over to that mount (it's not ...
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Create shared folder as active directory would in powershell
With Active Directory I can manually create new users. Every time I do that, I use right click -> Copy on that user, then I modify some things like Name, Surname and SamAccountName. This process ...
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TC: link sharing for ingress traffic not working
I was trying to set up an ingress link sharing env. by tc & htb qdisc. and I made two macvlan subinterfaces(say mgmt, data) under a parent physical interface enp8s0f0 and enp8s0f0's speed is 1000 ...
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Mount CIFS is seeing directory on network share only if extra directory is created
On my CentOS ver 7, I have mounted drive from Windows Server 2019 (with shared name "Backup-disk"), and on this drive I have two directories ("A" and "B").
Now I have ...
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Unzipping to general file share is slow on azure shared disk. Clustered windows server 2019
I have a file share server running on an azure VM cluster.
Copying already existing files to the file share gets really good speed. Averaging about 60 MBps. So if I copy a file from a local machine ...
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I'm trying to get Windows explorer to show non Windows based computers in the Network folder
For some reason my Windows machine has stopped showing non-Windows computers in the Network folder. It's Windows 10 22H2 19045. It does show other Windows computers. I can set up shares to folders in ...
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How to create a non-modifiable structure of shared folders on NTFS?
I am in the process of finding a suitable solution of the following.
I have a Windows Server 2013 share with a set of shared folders. This share has a central folder (say Shares) and a set of ...
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How to setup a server on virtualbox machine's localhost to be reachable in the host system?
I'm trying to access a server that runs on the virtualbox machine. It binds to localhost and want to passthrough the traffic to its external network interface (which is not the lo). The problem is ...
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How to nest & share multiple ZFS pools over Samba to multiple users
I have the following ZFS structure:
% sudo zfs list 16:03:46
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
zpool1 ...
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Linux: How to auto mount home for specific users from remote
I hope this question was not asked before, but I could not find something which really matches my problem.
Following scenario: We a park of 10 (or more) linux machines with the same user accounts (...
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Adding a group to a folder structure "basing" on another existing group's rights
thanks for reading this wall of text anyways.
My scenario:
i have a mega-folder called Projects. Every subfolder is a different project. So, for example, i have Projects\N123456 - New Coca Cola.
Now, ...
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Is two web servers and one shared file server a good idea? [duplicate]
Current problem:
we have a single web server that hosts a website with user generated content
the server constantly needs more upgrades to keep up with the storage space
it's hard to make changes ...
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Is there a benefit to running my File Sharing server on the physical server and my SQL server on a virtual machine?
I've never heard of anyone running one server on the original instance of Windows Server on the physical machine, and then running a second server on a Virtual Machine, so I can't find any info on ...
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Windows test network folder permissions for another account
How to test that an account other than login account has access to a network folder ?
Here's an example :
I'm logged in as steves but I need to test if joej has access to :
\\contoso\dept\finance\...
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How to delete shared network folder
I am the administrator and have all the necessary access rights but not able to delete. What should I do?
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How to create file history/ restore from previous version so that can retrieve accidentally delete shared network folder or file
How to create file history/ restore from previous version so that can retrieve accidentally delete shared network folder or file
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mount error(112): Host is down
I want to mount the shared folder from windows to raspberry pi. The goal is to save the images in shared folder after I captured images with pi camera. However, I have got mount error(Host is down). ...
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Windows 10 struggles to see files in DFS path after changing the target
A little background: I'm a programmer for a small company, and we have a lot of internal python tools that employees run. Our "deployment" process clones our git repo into a deployment ...
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Can't connect to DC from workstation using File Explorer
Here's a small piece of my topology:
SERVER2 - ePDC (SERVER 2016 Essentials)
SERVER3 - Peer DC (SERVER 2022 Standard)
RECEPTION - Workstation (Windows 10 21H2)
SERVER2 is down ...
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Shortcut path getting updated automatically in windows10
We have a cmd file located in a network share and a shortcut of it in the desktop. When it's created it works as expected, but once in a while the program doesn't work and when we check, the path ...
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File transfer between servers seems slow
I have two servers both running Rocky Linux v8.4, one hosts a raid drive that I use to back up a (very) large raid drive mounted on Server A as /home.
Server A (with the large raid of 70TB mounted as /...
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How to map a network drive on Azure Pipeline Agent with Windows Server 2019?
How to map a network drive on Azure Pipeline Agent with Windows Server 2019? I'm trying to upload large files from that Azure server to another server.
This command works on my own PC:
NET USE K: ...
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How to have two applications accessing a shared drive without isci config or shared lun?
We have a 2-node cluster configured using red hat high availability (pacemaker) but without shared storage i.e. each of the node has its own disk /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
We are not allowed to configure ...
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Why would Windows 10 workstation give "Connecting" popup when saving file to network?
We have our main file server "Files" on a Windows 2012 R2 server which works fine for nearly every workstation. A couple however, both of which are Windows 10, are having an issue when ...
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How to get PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance for Remote Path in Windows?
I tried to get the PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance value in FILE_STORAGE_INFO structure, using the GetFileInformationByHandleEx function using the following sample code:
FILE_STORAGE_INFO ...
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SMB share/Hyper-V - error 551 and error 1009
Setup:
Hypervisors:
HV1 (Server 2019)
HV2 (Server 2019)
Storage:
Storage0 (Server 2019)
Storage1 (Server 2019)
From the above -- you can see i have two file and two HV servers. I'm trying to use ...
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Sending rsyslog messages to remote file system
I have an Ubuntu server that will be running rsyslog and many "client" devices and applications sending logs to it (via various syslog clients).
I know that rsyslog logs everything to /var/...
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Win 2K19 File Server hanging and shows disconnected users
We facing a strange issue with our Shared Folders hosted on Windows Server VM, recently upgraded to Win 2019 Datacenter.
Randomly after last reboot (can be 2 days or 5 days after), we facing the ...
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How to mount a NFS share with server user
I have the following setup:
There is a Debian 10 PC with user A (uid: 1000, gid: 1000) and want to mount a NFS share provided by a server running TrueNAS (12.0-U8.1), which is owned by user B (uid: ...
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How to transfer directories, files and data from the Master Server to the Slave Server
I have a very simple question. And fortunately, I have no coding for this question.
I have configured my Master and Slave servers with BIND and RedHat Linux successfully, and the URL is pointing to my ...
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File Creation/Deletion over SMB sometimes happening in 25 microseconds
Scenario:
I am Creating and Deleting a File in my program using the following OS calls:
In Windows:
CreateFileW ((LPCWSTR) filename, GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | ...
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Can't mount a NFS share on File server rule running in Windows Failover Cluster
On Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter) I've created a File Server role and created a NFS share (similar to how it's described in these instructions). The idea was to ...
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What is the timeout duration of file read/write OS calls on network based on?
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I have shared a file over SMB, on a linux server, and accessing it using another linux client.
Linux Client opens the file using open OS call.
Linux Server is disconnected from the network.
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Why lock on a file shared over SMB taking only 3 microseconds?
I used the following C++ functions to lock 1 byte of a file that is shared by server via SMB:
On Windows:
LockFileEx (h, LOCKFILE_FAIL_IMMEDIATELY | LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK, 0, 1,0, &overlapped)
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DFS Namespace Direct Access to SubFolders
I am trying to setup DFS-N which will allow mapping of existing network locations to new Azure File Shares.
We are aware that the real "fix" is to rewrite our in house application to use the ...
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