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Get files from server two steps away
You can create an SSH tunnel through machine2 then in another session connect to the tunnel.
For example, open two CLI sessions on machine1. In the first session run the following:
MACHINE1$ ssh -L ...
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Unable to mount cifs share in fstab with spaces in share name
Replacing the spaces with \040 is actually the right way to do it.
The reason why it’s not working for you is probably because there are (forgotten?) quotes after /Restricted:
//servername.org.au/...
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Managing Security Groups for NTFS Permissions
Your thoughts are essentially what I do, and I've had a lot of success in managing things that way in complicated environments.
The solution to both of the question is that you create resource groups ...
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Connecting hundreds of servers via the local network (LAN)
I understand how to connect a couple of servers to one server but how
would I go about connecting hundreds of servers to a single server? I
mean, I don't see enough ports to connect so many servers.
...
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Can the network still work when DNS & DHCP go offline?
The network will keep working until your DHCP leases expire. After the leases expire devices may switch to RFC 3927 addresses. But those addresses are not predictable so you'd have to rely on MDNS to ...
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Change Windows 2012 R2 Network from Public to Domain
try
net stop nlasvc as admin
if this works, you can set this service (nlasvc) to "start delayed"
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Connecting hundreds of servers via the local network (LAN)
I'm caching lots of data in memory to a local redis server. The server will need to connect to hundreds of other servers in the same data center (as they all need to access the same information hosted ...
8
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Windows firewall blocking network shares through VPN server
I realize this is almost three years late, but I just spent today fighting with the same problem. I did get it working, so I figured I'd share. Note that I'm using a Windows 7 PC as the file server; ...
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Closing All Shared Files on the Network
The command you are using is not a native PowerShell command. However, PowerShell does come with a lot of functions to control SMB connections and shares.
What you are looking for could be this:
Get-...
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NET USE /REQUIREINTEGRITY /REQUIREPRIVACY /WRITETHROUGH?
I can't find reference as to when they were all added for use with net.exe, however
[/WRITETHROUGH] was added in windows 10 build 1809 - It allows you to map a drive with forced unit access ("write ...
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NET USE command doesn't authenticate when credentials are passed as parameters
Two things: the password should precede the username, and the username should include the users domain name.
NET USE * <link> <password> /USER:<userdomain>\<user>
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How to restrict AD DS, DNS, and FS services to internal interfaces on Window Server 2019?
Don't mix AD, Hyper-V and File Server in one Windows Server instance.
Just install Hyper-V on baremetal and deploy sepearte Windows VMs for AD and FileServer role. Virtual Switches allow you to ...
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What are these shared folders in Windows Server 2016?
These folders are specific to Windows Server Essentials edition.
Unless you have very good reason to mess with these folders (and are willing to put up with the complaints of the Server Essentials ...
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File Share in Windows Domain
My understanding is that you assign a user to a (security) group and
then add that group to the NTFS permissions. However, we have a number
of folders where we need to give a specific user access ...
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Cloud Storage Provider with file handles
Will File Share in Azure (SMB3 under the hood) work?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction
Azure File Sync will help with the local “cache” on premises.
...
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Attach network disk as direct
iSCSI might still do the job in your case. For Windows, try Starwind VSAN which has a free version and can export your disk over iSCSI to another machine. The only thing, you do not need to create a ...
6
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Samba public share - Windows keeps asking for password
I ran into the same issue (Windows kept rejecting the pi's password) until I got a tip from this YouTube video. Basically I had to run the command:
sudo smbpasswd -a pi
to create the pi samba user. ...
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The Network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password
If the share is mapped under a different user, you get that message. The mapping is unavailable (to you), and you can't get it to go away. So
switch to the other user;
unmap the drive in Windows ...
6
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Find users connected to a network share
This is a very old question, but the accepted answer skipped over one of the best ways to find the info. The GUI can show there are "connected clients" but not show those connections under "open files"...
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How can an unauthenticated user access a windows share?
Windows 10 Pro 1909 here.
I could not get a truly anonymous share to work, no matter what. But that might not be really necessary, since Guest shares still work and they accept any username with a ...
6
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Unable to see Samba server by netbios name
This is on samba 4.7.1
I was having the same problem as OP and alecov. Turns out, nmb service were not running.
You need to enable nmb separately from smb:
sudo systemctl enable nmb
sudo systemctl ...
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Amazon Web Services EFS doesn't seem to be saving files
To your original question: if you mount a filesystem "on top" of your current working directory, you will not see the contents of the mounted fs, nor will you be able to save content to that fs until ...
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Can hidden shares be discovered programmatically without network admin permissions?
Yes. net view \\server /all will show hidden shares.
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systemd Vagrant and VirtualBox: wait for synced folder to mount
I've just solved that kind of problem by adding:
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target var-www-example.com.mount'
where var-www-example.com corresponds to:
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www/...
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Why ZFS file system is not shared after boot?
You have to set the following options in /etc/default/zfs.
ZFS_SHARE='yes'
ZFS_UNSHARE='yes'
This will start the NFS exports of zfs pools which additionally have the sharenfs set to on or valid NFS ...
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Correct way to access a network share in a Windows service
You should be running the service as a specific user account, and that user account should have permissions to access the share.
Putting a username and password in like that is a pretty awful way of ...
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Windows File Server Rebuild
You use dynamic disks, if you want, or need to use the older software RAID, and a maybe a couple other less common features.
You don't need dynamic disk if you are using storage spaces, or some kind ...
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How to setup IIS on Failover Cluster with Shared Data
The NTFS/SMB permissions for shared IIS storage are detailed described in ms guide:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/web-hosting/configuring-servers-in-the-windows-web-platform/configuring-share-...
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How can I determine the version of a remote NFS share?
nfsstat -m
Watch out for “vers” inside the reported flags.
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