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NFS shares dissappear after reboot of Windows server

This should put a bit more light on your issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/870964/file-shares-on-iscsi-devices-may-not-be-re-created-when-you-restart-th
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Samba share with read only permission

read only = no read only = yes The documentation is your friend.
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?

Doing exactly this worked for me, for an existing repository. This takes advice from several answers and comments before: From your repository parent directory, at the server: chgrp -R <whatever ...
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can connect to Samba, but can not access any file

This is probably due to SELINUX. For a quick fix, try putting SELINUX into permissive (ie: non-blocking) mode by running that command: setenforce 0 If it works, you can consider to permanentely put ...
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Is it possible to share single instance profile between multiple aws ec2 instances?

The IAM instance profiles can be reused for many instances. This way, you can startup an entire fleet of EC2 instances using the same IAM profile/role.
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Docker volume on NFS share - empty directory

When a named volume is initialized from an empty/new state, docker will copy the contents of the image directory into the named volume. There are several options to deal with this: Initialize the ...
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Is it possible to host a Windows share that can be accessed solely by server name? (e.g. \\server\file.txt)

Windows file shares must always contain at the very least a server name and a folder name, i.e. \\server\share; then, inside a shared folder, you can have your file, such as filename.exe. Thus, the ...
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Is there a way to find out the creator of a share in Windows?

the only way to get who and when the share was created is if you have enabled auditing policy for local file or folder on the server. if the auditing was enabled you can see the information you are ...
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Server Share Unable To Be Accessed On Home PC

Your hosting provider, OVH, is one of many that blocks SMB / CIFS by blocking internet traffic on port 445. The reason for that is that historically the protocol was only suitable for LAN and not ...
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is it possible to combine two vps in different locations into one?

DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert on, nor have I ever used, distributed filesystems or operating systems. Never really felt I needed either of them, and haven't wanted the additional overhead associated ...
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User cannot map share from system in another AD Domain

It's trying to use the credentials it already knows about to map the drive. Instead of mapping a new share with the new password, you should disconnect the shares with a bad password, and reconnect ...
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Windows 10 share to MS-Dos 6.22 failing after an update from Windows 7

Todd Wilcox has the answer. You will have to re-enable SMBv1 on that Windows 10 system. You can do this by going to Control Panel\Programs and Features, and selecting "Turn Windows features on and off"...
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Delete Windows Share 'History' "the folders shared below were previously shared"?

Already a few years old but came up first in my search results. Had the same issue but found a solution. When you get the Windows prompt: "The folders shown below were previously shared" and ...
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Can no longer access SMB shares to a Windows server after 2016 upgrade

Sounds like your upgraded file server now only allows SMB2 or greater, and your other 2016 server is explicitly configured to allow SMB1. For some reason, your clients are not capable of using SMB2. ...
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How do I let someone access a drive in other computer in a domain?

Assuming that you've taken the security considerations into account, you'd pretty much share it the same way you'd share any other folder: right-click, properties, advanced sharing. Choose the AD ...
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Invalid Encryption Keys Password when enabling shared Configuration to Azure file share in iis

I test in my lab, I meet the same error with you. I think maybe the blog miss mount file share on VM. When I do this, I get the same result with the blog. Note:Encryption Keys Password is not your ...
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Is it possible to host a Windows share that can be accessed solely by server name? (e.g. \\server\file.txt)

AFAIK not possible with a SMB share, but if you wanted to host a webdav share windows can access it using only the hostname. As an example look at like \\live.sysinternals.com (also https://live....
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Is there a way to find out the creator of a share in Windows?

If you don't have auditing enabled your best bet is the owner of that folder. By default the creator of a folder is also the owner. It is not 100% reliable because ownership can be taken away. Right-...
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FTP or file share

A web server fills all your stated requirements, it can serve any file type you like to a web browser. Large file downloads over HTTP are no problem. Nginx or Apache would both work, Nginx is simpler ...
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, all 19 shares suddenly accessible to everyone

If you didn't have auditing turned on, then no, there will be no record of who made the changes or how they made them. How do you fix and prevent this? First, fix the permissions on the shares and ...
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server virtualization shared ram

If I understand correctly, you are asking if it's possible for two virtual machines on the same host to "share" RAM resources, rather than dedicating roughly half of the physical memory to each. It ...
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DFS referral cache duration

The cache is only used to switch between the DFS server if one is not available any more or if a link has more then one target. To accessing a link inside the dfs namespace, at least one DFS server ...
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Network share to all computers in the domain is public

This share, \\COMPUTER\c$, is one of the Administrative shares created automatically by the system. These shares cannot be accessed by users without administrative privileges, so there should not be ...
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Networked machine 'bypasses' password protection on Win7 shares

Go to control panel -> user accounts -> manage user accounts. Click the advanced tab on top of that window. There should be a button there that says "manage passwords". This should allow you to ...
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How can I move share permissions to a new partition that I've moved data to?

To be sure of the synchronisation of your 2 servers and because you have under windows2012, you can use DFS for the sharing and DFS-R for the replication of your two servers. You could follow those ...
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Accessing Network Share over specific Interface

Windows does allow you the option of setting priority for network interfaces, but that will affect all traffic. To accomplish what you want Mike gave you the best solution. If both interfaces on the ...
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How to make data up to date on a shareable disk connected to KVM guest?

Normal file systems have no mechanism to support your desired mode of operation and the second VM will just not learn when the FS has changed. The alternative would be to use a cluster-aware file ...
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How to password protect shared folder windows 7 without active directory

Everybody uses the same user log ins for their machine (WorkUser1) - so I cannot simply add the WorkUser1 account as having shared/owner access This is your problem which you must fix first: If you ...
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Remove Cached UNC URL Credentials Win 10/Server 2012

If you have already removed all instances of saved credentials and you are still able to connect to a share without providing explicit credentials, I believe there are two possibilities: Your share ...
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Remove Cached UNC URL Credentials Win 10/Server 2012

This information windows save in registry. Press Win+R to bring up the Run dialog box. Type regedit and hit Enter. For windows 8 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\...
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