Questions tagged [cifs]
CIFS is a virtual file system in use by samba, and Windows servers to share files between different system.
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Debian 13 does not show SMB shares on the desktop
In Debian 13, with the GNOME desktop environment, in fstab, I have placed the following line to mount an SMB share from a Synology NAS:
//192.168.1.117/video /media/NAS/video cifs username=video,...
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Why can I browse this Windows share using smbclient, but cannot mount it with mount.cifs?
I am working in a primarily Windows environment.
I need to access a Windows shared drive which is known among my colleagues as "the L drive". Running net use on a Windows machine shows the ...
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Read-only mount a btrfs image and overwrite UID
The story is that a week ago my local disk faulted, and I dd'd the entire disk device to a full.img file and uploaded it to my OpenMediaVault server. Now I have replaced the disk and reinstalled the ...
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Cannot open LibreOffice files on Samba share concurrently on Debian Linux - File locking issue
We have a Samba file server and use Debian Linux for both server and clients.
Everything works fine. Except for one thing:
If someone opens a LibreOffice document (mainly Calc / *.ods), nobody else ...
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systemd fails to mount CIFS share at boot with _netdev option: "mount error(101): Network is unreachable"
I'm trying to automatically mount a CIFS network share at /mnt/Share using systemd on boot, with the _netdev option in /etc/fstab. However, the mount fails with the following error in journalctl:
May ...
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How to fix VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115 after an update
This was quite a catastrophic update. Initially, all I got after reboot was a brief error that turned into kernel panic after a few seconds. I booted into the previous kernel but it would not start X. ...
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x-systemd.automount and noauto causes CIFS mount to ignore uid/gid and mount as root
I'm trying to mount a CIFS (Samba) share using /etc/fstab, and I want it to be owned by a specific user (myuser), not root.
My current fstab line is:
# <file system> <mount point> <...
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Can See Samba Shares on Phone, but Cannot Mount
I can ping my phone's server:
lobsang@lobsang-Inspiron-3195:~$ ping 192.168.86.26
PING 192.168.86.26 (192.168.86.26) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.86.26: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=305 ms
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Samba serve unmounted FS
I was delinting a smb.conf and it occurred to me that
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
is because the server's backup solution accesses the shared files not through the cifs filesystem module. Which ...
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CIFS mount containing windows symlinks access
For years I used a setup where I have a CIFS mount to a windows share directory. This directory contains symlinks to other windows location.
Trying to replicate this on the latest raspberry pi OS (...
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mount of smb share does work on Debian 11 but not on Debian 12 and uses wrong user
I have a kind of strange bug. I try to mount smb/cifs share of windows server 2019 as server using Debian as client. The following exact command does work on Debian 11.11 but not on 12.9 with myuser ...
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ksmbd share looks empty at client side
I'm trying to get ksmbd work on a machine running bookworm. But regardless if I'm using a Linux GUI, CLI or a Windows 10 Client, I'm unable to browse through files or directories within the mounted ...
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How does "cifsacl" or "idsfromsid" w/ "modefromsid" work in CIFS/SMB? How do I use them to support Unix permissions on a Samba server?
I have a Samba server running FreeBSD and ZFS, and a Linux client who needs to mount a Samba share. To avoid compatibility problems, it should be mounted in a way that respects and supports Unix ...
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mount.cifs error(78): Remote address changed
Setup:
Windows fileserver (cluster with 2 nodes actually) & a RHEL 8 host residing in the same Active Directory domain, multiple locations on the fileserver mounted using mount.cifs.
Our problem ...
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CIFS storage timeout on Disk Move
I've just reinstalled the Proxmox, but before it I copied some of the disk of the existing machines to a NAS. Now I'm trying to move the disk to the new system.
It seem that Proxmox is waiting for ...
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