Questions tagged [samba]
A free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, which provides Windows file and print services. Use this tag when your question involves Samba shares, mounts, or printers.
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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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Why my Samba server doesn't do any check on the domain inserted in the samba client authentication request?
I have configured a smb.service (Samba service version 4.10.15) on a Linux system for sharing the folder myshare.
I'm doing some connection tests by a smbclient installed on an other workstation Linux....
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Samba: force group is ignored for new files
I have a smb share which works correctly so far, with one exception: all new files in the given share get the user's primary group instead of the group specified in force group. Here's the section ...
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Can I disable the nmb.service of Samba if I want share a Linux folder with Windows PCs?
I have installed Samba on my Linux distribution. I can share the folder myshare with Windows PCs with no problem.
A Windows10 PC can connect to myshare by its File Explorer, writing on its address bar:...
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What is the purpose of the option `delete readonly = yes` available for the configuration of a Samba service?
I'm trying to understand the purpose of the option delete readonly = yes which can be set in the configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf on a Linux system where is installed the service smd.
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Samba wide links makes share inaccessible on Asustor NAS (ADM 5, Samba 4.20.0, Windows 11)
I am trying to set up a Flamenco render farm for Blender. One of the requirements is that symlinks work across Samba shares and Windows clients (Flamenco docs).
According to this Unix SE answer, the ...
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How can I enable users to only get and delete files present inside a Samba shared folder?
I want to create a Samba shared folder where users are allowed to:
get the files already present in the folder
remove files already present in the folder
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Samba authentication error: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE (linked with PAM: Account Validation Failed)
I would like to share a folder by a Samba server installed in my Linux (yocto) distribution.
The configuration of my Samba server (file /etc/samba/smb.conf)
The output of the command testparm -s is:
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Changes in a Samba share on Fedora Linux are not reflected in Windows client
On my Fedora 42 Linux system, I have an ext4 file system named /pictures, which is exported as a Samba share. It is mounted on a Windows 10 system. When this is updated on the Linux side (mass renames,...
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Configure NAS to use memory cache for all available capacity when copying files over SMB
I have Synology DS923+ NAS with 32 GB memory and two hard drives in RAID1. It runs Linux 4.4 with the ext4 filesystem.
Copying a 20GB file from my laptop to NAS using SMB with 10GbE wired ethernet ...
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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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samba home folder unable to list, create or edit files and folders
I have shared my home folder over samba as follows:
when i try to create folders from windows I get error "cant create" but folder is created. But permissions are all messed up.
file is also ...
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unable to login to samba share
I want to share my data on my Rocky 9 server to family members using windows PCs. I setup and config samba. Seems something is missing. Users are not able to login. They are trying their unix ...
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rsync to SAMBA share permission denied
I have a NAS that exports some directories as SAMBA shares. It works normally very well.
Now I have mounted this particular share on a Linux box, using fstab. This also works. However, I would like to ...
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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:
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