Questions tagged [samba]
Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.
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SAMBA: valid users ignores local samba user
I have a linux server (SLES12 SP5) in a Windows domain.
>smbd -V
Version 4.10.5-git.192.26ffbcd72313.11.1-SUSE-SLE_12-x86_64
Accessing samba shares with a domain user works very well.
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I can write into SambaShare folder but I can not open any file or folder
Samba server is running in centos7, the folder is mounted in windows 10.
I can see all the files and folders, but I can not open any of them, I can not even copy from my sambashare folder to the ...
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Upgraded Fedora, now Samba trouble: How to properly configure Samba on Fedora Server 32?
I replaced my aging server with a new one, a completely new build, (so perhaps "replaced" would be more accurate than "upgraded") but of course I harvested all the old config files,...
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SAMBA AD DC visible from external DNS
I have configured fully functional SAMBA AD DC server. During AD provisioning process i set up SAMBA_INTERNAL as DNS back end. I couldn't use "NONE DNS", it is not supported.
I want to use ...
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Disabling IP caching in samba or dealing with dynamic IP
We want to mount external storage that has been provided to us. We use something like the following in our /etc/fstab file on Ubuntu 18.04.
//external/storage /mounting/point cifs noperm,cred=/home/...
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Error integrating Samba with already configured Openldap
After setting up my Openldap on Centos 7, I got a problem while integrating Samba
(I followed many tutorials, ex. https://admin.shamot.cz/?p=470).
After running the command:
net getlocalsid
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Openldap+samba pdb_init_ldapsam: WARNING: Could not get domain info, nor add one to the domain. We cannot work reliably without it
After integration samba with openldap i got this type of error while trying to restart smb.service :
juil. 20 13:28:41 ldapmaster smbd[9761]: [2020/07/20 13:28:41.008764, 0] ../../source3/passdb/...
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nmb won't announce samba shares
I'm using samba on Fedora Server Edition. But I can't figure out why any windows can not see it. It can connect (directly, using ip address). It basically works, but I can't see them on either linux (...
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smbd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
I'm running samba on a server, but I don't want samba directly exposed to the internet. The server is running pptpd, and I want samba to bind to the local ip of the pptpd, so samba will be accessible ...
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Different permissions for guest and non-guest users in Samba
I am configuring a samba server for file sharing. I was wondering if there is a configuration setting to map different file or directory masks to different users.
I am attempting to allow admin users ...
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Issues Accessing Samba Share using FQDN
I have a fresh Centos 8 server that I'm setting up for a client, and it's giving me the worst troubles with setting up network shares on the AD DC.
I've scoured google for several hours, and nothing I ...
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SAMBA netstat local address 0.0.0.0
Trying to run samba AD DC but I'm stuck. After created domain provision, I defined resolv.conf:
cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 10.99.0.30
search example.com
Service running:
samba-ad-dc.service - ...
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Samba-tool ImportError: No module named samba.netcmd.main
Installed lastest samba(with all dependencies) version 4.12.3 on CentOS 8. I wget samba in /root/ directory and made ./configure without any options and after make && make install samba ...
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samba server mount points stopped working on CentOS 8 install, error: Failed to start SPNEGO handler for negprot OID list
After about 6 months of smb working flawlessly on a home server, it is now failing to allow remote systems to mount with the following error message in /var/log/messages:
Jun 27 12:53:10 bike3 smbd[...
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Do I need to set up a DHCP server for a Samba-based Active Directory domain controller?
I'm new to active directory and have been watching some videos to get an idea of the structure. I've also been using VMs in their own virtual network to learn how it all works. I have been using this ...
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Windows 10 to Linux Samba over VPN, strange directory listing issue
We have a client that has two sites connected via VPN, one of the users has moved from one to the other taking their computer with them.
When they connect to the server at the old site it connects ...
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Connecting Debian client to a Windows 10 Server via SMB
I have my LAN setted up with SMB protocol and I can pretty much access all the shares from different OS Devices (Windows 10, DD-WRT NAS, Android), but I've got a problem when connecting the Debian ...
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Samba Domain Unavailable
I have an Ubuntu machine that acts as an NT4 style PDC with samba 4.3.
Clients are all windows pro (7 an 10) machines and till now we haven't any problem in joining clients and log in domain users on ...
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Why I am unable to mount a CIFS from my server?
I have setup the samba on CENTOS 8 like that:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
[e-table]
path=/mnt/md0
browseable=yes
read only = no
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Enter network credentials not working when connecting Win to Ubuntu Samba share
A real "Knacknuss"...
I have an Ubuntu Server, and setup Samba for Windows to connect. All is working fine but for that one particular Windows computer (Win 10 pro) that can not connect.
How ...
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I can mount a samba share from windows and see what it holds but cannot create files or directories
[Newbie warning! this is my first time setting up Samba. I'm almost there but...]
Server is running Centos 8, Samba V4.10.4
Shared filesystem is xfs, I have enabled extended attributes and tested ...
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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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Centos / IDM / FreeIPA and SAMBA
I'm working on validating and migrating to a more robust solution to manage a growing number of linux servers. We've traditionally been running Centos 7.
Some of the servers are simply standalone ...
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Failing getent groups fail but getent passwd works
I have an AD server running on server 2019. I just setup a linux box and configured samba for some reason i can't get getent group "domain admins" to show anything. if i do getent passwd Administrator ...
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How can i install an old samba version on Oracle Linux 7.5
Apologies if this is a lame question but i don't have much experience with subject..
I know that there are a bunch of posts regarding this but i wasn't able to find a proper solution...
I running ...
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Samba/Linux: How to register only certain IP-Adresses in Windows AD DNS?
I have set up Samba 4.12.14-Deb on Jessie as a member server for my AD and (so far) everything works fine. This machine does have a few Tun* Interfaces for openVPN tunnels (which are also working fine)...
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FreeBSD perform certain task when a new user is created
Is there a way to perform additional tasks every time a new user is created with adduser(8) in FreeBSD?
To be more precise, i'd like to create a directory for every new user and map this user with ...
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Join AD domain failed SPNEGO login failed: {Access Denied} A process has requested access to an object but has not been granted those access rights
I meet a problem when trying to join Active Directory domain with Samba.
The error message is
cli_session_creds_prepare_krb5: Doing kinit for [email protected] to access domaincontroller.hostname
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Reading Samba from Windows 10 has major bottleneck
Keep in mind, both machines used are hosted in a Proxmox Node.
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My Samba setup is installed on Ubuntu inside an LXC. The shares are located on a RAIDZ2 dataset, and are accessible from the LAN....
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Can write to all smb shares except root of mounted USB drive
I have a USB drive mounted to /media/usbdrive on my Ubuntu 20.04 box. I can write files to any share except the root share. Meaning, I have these shares set up in smb.conf:
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path = /media/...
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Samba server icon on the mac is still the ugly CRT monitor despite the seemingly correct settings
I configured a Centos 8 server on the network with Samba installed and working great. Because it's used by Mac clients, I added the following to the smb.conf:
min protocol = SMB2
vfs objects = catia ...
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Access to SMB shares denied after update to FreeNAS 11.3
My previous setup (FreeNAS 11.2) had working SMB shares with Windows 10. After an update to FreeNAS 11.3 SMB shares partially stopped working. I'd be more than thankful, if anyone could help me ...
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Is it possible to not use smbpasswd to share samba home folders in linux?
I have a linux (Ubuntu) server with a few users on it that I allow their home folders to be accessed via smb.
However, in order for them to access the folder, I need to use smbpasswd -a username
Why ...
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Can't write on Samba4 share using Zentyal 6.1 server, after upgrading from 5, read only is allowed
I can't write on all my clients (Windows 7 and Windows 10) in all my samba shares, even if the users are accepted on domain, and the permissions was maintained. The shares are on a NAS, ISCSI ...
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Samba4 issues with Time Machine: cannot create new backup on Samba share
Note: originally posted on StackExchange. I'm not sure which location is more appropriate, my apologies if the duplication causes issues.
TL;DR: Time Machine cannot create a new backup on my shared ...
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Debian Samba AD DC: domain connected Win 10 can't connect to LDAPS
I've installed Samba 4.9.5-Debian with Active Directory role on Debian 10. The installation is configured with SAMBA_INTERNAL DNS backend. When I try to connect with LDAPS with domain connected ...
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Samba sharing asking for username and password only on VPN Windows Clients
I have a SAMBA share that works exactly as expected on the local network. There is a folder that needs authentication to access and a public folder that is accessed without authentication.
The ...
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BIND failing to query external DNS records
Unfortunately, I'm an amateur sys admin and can't figure out what is going on with BIND (9.8). We have two old Samba servers that we use as our active directory domain controllers and therefore they ...
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Dynamic DNS with Bind9 and BIND_DLZ cannot start?
I have a device running Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller using BIND_DLZ as a backend.
On top of that I am running a secondary device also configured as an Active Directory Domain ...
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Copy busy file from Samba share
I have an Ubuntu server which I use to backup from another server. I need to backup a file used by the other server, but without stopping it.
To connect the 2 servers, I use a Samba share. And to ...
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autofs with samba, sssd, openldap, kerberos
I want to mount a samba share with autofs.
srv.xxxxxxx.net is the samba server (proxmox container, Debian 10)
ldap2.xxxxxxx.net is the openldap (proxmox container, Debian 10)
gui.xxxxxxx.net is the ...
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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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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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Win10 NFS Client a SAMBA Killer?
We finally got the last of our recalcitrant Windows 7 users to Windows 10 thanks to MS' recent withdrawal of support from the former, so the entire enterprise now is either Ubuntu 18.04 or Windows 10.
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CTDB Samba script failing to start
Here is the output from a tail -f /var/log/ctdb/log.ctdb
2020/01/27 18:52:52.317670 ctdbd[3330]: Running the "startup" event.
2020/01/27 18:53:22.323208 ctdbd[3330]: startup event failed
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How can I create or access a remote file as if it were local?
In general, I would like to run local programs on remote files provided to me via a distributed file system (e.g. samba, NFS or whichever you recommend), and I want to access the remote files in a ...
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Very slow SMB speeds on macOS
Since I recently got a new Mac Pro (running Catalina 10.15.2), I connected it using 10 GBit Ethernet to my Debian 10 / Proxmox server.
When connecting to a share however, I am only getting 150-300 MB/...
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Samba Issue time with shadow copy
I was wondering if someone else has any experience with this before? Currently Version: 6.1 zentyal and Samba version 4.7.6-Ubuntu
The time in the shadow copy does not show correct on the windows ...
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Samba doesn't ask for a password
I'm trying to set up Samba on my home server but it doesn't ask for a password.
What did I do wrong?
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
wins support = no
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What is the difference between samba and sssd? [closed]
In my ubuntu workstation I use /etc/samba/smb.conf and /etc/sssd/sssd.conf with /etc/krb5.conf in order to join active directory on a corporate network.
sudo service samba-ad-dc status
# inactive
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