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

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No write permissions on samba share

I created a samba network share on a Fedora VM, from a windows machine I can access the share in read only, I can't write on the share. The configuration of the share is: [net_share] comment = ...
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Connection to Windows SMB share works through smbclient, fails to mount via mount.cifs

I'm trying to access a Windows Server 2019 share (inside a domain) from a CentOS6 host. I can browse the share via smbclient, but mounting fails: Status code returned 0xc000006d ...
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How to share apache /var/www using samba server in ubuntu

My issue is similar to the stackoverflow question, virtual centOS 6.2 - How to share /var/www using Samba, however I am getting the following error: Windows cannot access \server1\dev You do not have ...
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I have to manually restart winbind.service after every reboot. Ubuntu 18.04

S.O. Ubuntu 18.04.4, Samba version 4.7.6-Ubuntu I have this problem with this machine. Whenever the system restarts, winbind.service fail to start properly, and error "clock skew too great" is ...
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AD group membership changes not reflected in winbind information

I have inherited several RHEL5 servers that were set up to authenticate users against their AD accounts via winbind. Everything works fine until I update group membership in AD. For some users, the ...
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How to set up netbios aliases on smbd / nmbd

The hostname of my server is slightly unfriendly (let's say b4dn4me). I want my users to be able to access the server under a nicer name (let's say bonnie). Samba is installed just to be able to ...
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'Permission denied' executing 'ls -l' against cifs share on Fedora 39

Setup: Windows Server 2016, workgroup mode, a shared folder 'SHARE' with username/password security, owned by BUILTIN\Everyone. Fedora 39, everything updated to the latest versions. etc/fstab: //...
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smbclient NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME with server OS SpinStream2

I'm trying to use Samba smbclient to connect to a file server managed by my technology partner, and I'm consistently getting this error message about tree connect failed. The exact details have been ...
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How to Make Samba List All Shares Without Authentication

edit: I just created a Windows 7 VM, and everything works exactly as I want it to from there. So it looks like this is a recent Windows 10+ client thing and not a Samba issue. Apparently there's more ...
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Samba4 User password is not updated correctly via LDAP message, only via smbpasswd

I have set up a Samba4 AD DC, and I can successfully authenticate with my Administrator user from .net code: var directoryIdentifier = new LdapDirectoryIdentifier("127.0.0.1", 636); var ...
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Error: KDC has no support for encryption type

I have intermittent authentication issues on my ubuntu 15.04 servers. Periodically, authentication will just stop working. Eventually it will start working again on its own. Or, if I restart both smbd ...
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Samba: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received

I have two Samba servers in a network with two Linux and a lot of Windows hosts. Both Linux hosts run a Samba server, with the same (very basic) configuration: [global] workgroup = PRAXIS security = ...
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macOS “mount_smbfs: server connection failed: Socket is not connected”

To start out this is a duplicate question - however the question has no answer is at the top of the Google rankings. (I don't have enough status to answer it) macOS "mount_smbfs: server ...
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Linux SMB to \\domainname ends up "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME "

Issue: From CentOS7 machine: smbclient -L %domainname%.com --user=%username% Result: tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME This is especially when I try to connect to //domainname.com, ...
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how to solve NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE in CentOS when connecting to (windows) file server via SAMBA

I am using CentOS and I need to connect to a file server running on windows. My friend told me that I need to install SAMBA to be able to do that. and so I installed samba and when I try to check if ...
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Samba Incorrect Disk Usage Reporting

I am playing around with a fileserver setup. Here are the specs of the system: root@files:/data# uname -a Linux files 6.1.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1 (2024-02-01) x86_64 GNU/...
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Why can't I access my samba shares with this simple configuration? (CentOS 6)

On a freshly installed CentOS 6 system I have the following simple smb.conf copied from another system where it is working as expected: workgroup = MYDOMAIN browseable = yes [homes] guest ok = no ...
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Symlinks look like regular files on samba shares

Symlinks on my samba share aren't behaving the way I want them to – specifically, the links look like duplicate regular files to the client machine. This used to work (i.e. symlinks on the server ...
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Samba Windows ACL not working

I want to configure Samba to manage Windows ACL and manage them from Windows via the security tab. The Samba server is standalone and not part of an AD tree; i already followed various offical and ...
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Allow guest read/write access to Netatalk AFP share

I am running Netatalk 3.14dev on Ubuntu 14.04. This box is being used as a webserver and we already have a Samba share pointed at the /var/www folder to allow our developers to work on sites hosted on ...
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CentOS cifs mount point fails after reboot. permission denied error 13

I'm using CentOS release 5.10 I have a mount point setup in /etc/fstab that was working, but now it doesn't. After a reboot the mount point doesn't exist and running sudo mount -a results in: mount ...
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Access denied to Samba share from Windows 10

Samba version: Version 4.1.17-Ubuntu Ubuntu 15.10 When accessing a Samba share in windows, I can see the share but whenever I try and access it - entering the same username and password as the Samba ...
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Is it the OS or Samba that is restricting access to systemd on a shared folder?

I have two Rocky Linux 9 servers that we can call svr1 and svr2. svr1 has Samba service installed and share the folder /home/rocky/shared_folder with this configuration: [global] # workgroup = ...
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SMB folders, upload a file results in .part files of 0bytes

I have a Debian 11 server with Nextcloud on it and an OpenMediaVault (OMV) server on which a Samba 4.13.13 share is configured. The Samba server is used by all users on the network without any problem....
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Can't mount samba share, but can access using smbclient

I have a network share on Windows server in my local network. I can access this share using smbclient on my Ubuntu 13.10 (with installed cifs-utils package) desktop like this: smbclient \\\\192.168.5....
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Mounting Samba share to Docker container

Goal On my server I am runing various Docker containers, specifically a syncthing container. In addition I am also using my server for different Samba shares. My goal is to mount the host directory /...
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Active Directory for linux servers

I have 7 ubuntu servers and a Storage server on freebsd. I am considering deploying OpenLDAP on one of these 7 servers so that these servers can have a centralized user database and authentication ...
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Network share (avahi broadcasted) not listed under Locations in MacOS Finder

I have two servers. One ubuntu (jammy), the other debian (buster) both running samba shares. If I configure "fruit:model" in smb.conf, the network share appears in finder but the icon under ...
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Is it possible to limit the size of a CIFS/SMB share when mounted?

I have one big 5 TB (and growing) CIFS/SMB share stored on HDD (RAID) on one centralized server for main storage (and backup) and plan to use several additional Linux servers (as proxies) where I ...
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Samba's smbd no longer working with MIT Kerberos & OpenLDAP for authentication

I'm getting the following error when trying to browse a Samba share: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_NO_IMPERSONATION_TOKEN My Samba configuration for tying a standalone server's smbd to its MIT ...
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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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Best way to mount a Linux filesystem on Windows over the Internet?

I was going to attempt Samba over SSH, any better ideas? Edit: My mom has been bugging me to do some offsite backing up of her files. She currently uses Norton Ghost. I have a VPS that I use for ...
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Samba logging all to get logs about all user activities on shared folders and files

How can I get logs for all user activities on files and folders in samba sharing. Please let me know what changes to be done on samba configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf My /etc/samba/smb.conf ...
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Samba SMB Encryption - How safe is it?

I recently set up a Samba server on Linux that allows me to access files on this server on Win10 PCs in my local network. But I wondered if I could access this shared drive over the internet since I ...
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How can I automate joining a Linux container to a Samba Domain?

I have a Samba domain controller (also running in a container) and I would like to start a new container and have it become a member of the domain. The normal process for this is to enter the ...
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Use Samba AD DC as Password Backend for Samba PDC

I've got the following situation: Old Samba-server data.company.com Version 4.6.7 Configured as a PDC with workgroup = COMPANY for a population of Windows hosts with the following configuration: [...
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Multiuser SMB Mount on Red Hat: Users Seeing Each Other's Folders Despite Separate cifscreds

We are attempting to mount a Windows file system on a Red Hat 9 machine. This Windows file system contains hundreds of accounts with finely tuned access rights. We are trying to implement the ...
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Bonding mode 6 on Ubuntu 16.04 not increasing total transfer speed

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server that is on a LAN with several dozen machines that need to read/write to it via samba shares. It was running a single gigabit card, but I decided to try bonding to improve ...
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Quota for samba storage

I have a Hetzner StorageBox and I want to use it for my users. I can access it using FTP/FTPS, SFTP/SCP, Rsync/BorgBackup, SMB/CIFS, and HTTPS/WebDAV. I've successfully mounted it with CIFS on my ...
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Can't mount Samba share inside router connected to OpenVPN

Inside my router (connected to an OpenVPN server) is a Samba share. I try to mount that share with my mobile phone (connected to the same OpenVPN server), but this does not work. My (reducted) OpenVPN ...
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How do I restart the Samba service?

I have changed the config file, but changes are not appearing. Do I have to restart Samba?
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Windows slow browse of SAMBA share with File Explorer

When browsing a SAMBA file server, File Explorer takes a very long time (60+ secs) to load a share. If I view the same share on the command line with the following command, it returns the listing ...
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Samba "NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED" error when trying to image a Windows VM using Cobbler

Looking for some help with Samba on Fedora 38. We have a Cobbler v3.3.3 server currently for testing purposes. We have configured Cobbler and managed to import a Windows distribution as per the ...
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Where can I see samba registry share configuration from a system backup that's not running

I have a backup of all files/folders from a Linux install that had Samba running and some shares. This installation was using the registry for configuring the shares so they are not in /etc/samba/smb....
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Ubuntu Samba tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

I am stumped. After hours of time I haven't made any progress. I am getting the following error. Running Ubuntu 22.04. What's crazy is I have this working on another machine running the same version. ...
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Why on earth would rsync over SMB run nearly five times faster than rsync-to-rsync (over SSH)?

I just modified many files on a 36TB Unraid array (not quite half full yet). Now I want to sync all of those changes up to a backup array using rsync. My usual rsync backup was going a lot more slowly ...
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Samba Linux server MacOS client ACLs

I'm trying to enable ACLs for a Linux Server using a MacOS client. My configuration is as follows: [global] vfs objects = acl_xattr map acl inherit = yes store dos attributes = ...
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Unable to configure fail2ban to protect samba shares

With this configuration service (fail2ban) starts, logfile register wrong attempts, but still not count attempts in fail2ban-client. I suspect that there is a problem with regex, but this is the only ...
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Use fail2ban for Samba

I'm looking for a way to use fail2ban to control/block samba logins on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. I already set up an jail.local. The samba part currently looks like this: [samba] enabled = true port = 135,...
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How change temporary primary group for user when user connect to samba?

I have samba connected via Winbind to AD. Historically, all unix enabled users has wrong primary group. May I change while user connected to samba primary group to one of the users secondary? It could ...

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