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smb is an abbreviation for Server Message Block, a network protocol for sharing files and printers implemented by Windows, Samba and others.

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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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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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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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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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TLDR: I can access an external harddrive via GUI tools but not via fstab / mount tooling. I'm at my wits end with this one. I've got an external harddrive plugged into the back of my Asus router, with ...
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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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I have a Synology NAS serving shared folders with SMB. On Windows and MAC I just have to indicate the IP of the NAS and all the shared folder are discovered and mounted. On linux (the latest Debian) (...
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We have a Linux server running CentOS 7.  A few days ago, we found out that it has started continuously attempting to connect to a Windows server share via port 445 using a certain user's AD ...
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I'm trying to delete files on a NetApp server using smbclient //servername/share -c "deltree directory_to_delete". It works except for folders which have the read-only flag set. In this case,...
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I'm trying to connect to SMB share on my TrueNAS from my Fedora. It works well until I decided to enable encryption of SMB data. I put following in the service config on TrueNAS (global settings) unix ...
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Running Samba 4.7.6 on U18.04. Everything was working prior to a recent shutdown, in that you could access the shares via \\hostname\ or \\hostname.domain.com\. Now, these fail on Windows clients with ...
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As the above picture shows, when I turned on "File Sharing", MacOS tells me to access it by "smb://bogon", however, I think the correct item here should be "smb://<hostname&...
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//192.168.1.64/d /media/d cifs credentials=/home/nick/.smbcredentials,uid=nick,gid=media,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,nofail,user 0 0 Here's my ls- l of the share once mounted: drwxrwxrwx 2 nick ...
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I am running a samba server on a Raspbian 11 device and I'm trying to connect to it from an Ubuntu 20 device. When I open the file manager, I can see the samba share but when I try to access to it (...
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I have a smb mount on my linux server, but occasionally it loses connection, interrupting the software using the mounted directory. Is there a way to cache the smb mount on local disk?
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This is the output of the [global] section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf of a random Synology NAS: ~# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] printcap name=cups winbind enum groups=yes ...
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I have an HP OfficeJet 8600 printer in my office that's around 10 years old but still works perfectly fine. I occasionally use this printer to scan to a samba share hosted on my DD-WRT router. I ...
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Say I create a named volume podman volume create --opt type=cifs --opt o=async --opt device=//mynas.lan/steamcache steamcache According to podman volume inspect, this volume's mountpoint is /home/me/....
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I was about to change mount from "//192.168.1.x/SomeFolder" to "//192.168.1.x/" so i could choose which dataset i want to access with my docker containers. It gave me error like: ...
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I have a very basic /etc/samba/smb.conf configuration: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Samba server (%v) on %h security = user passdb backend = tdbsam [...
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I have a new Synology NAS (DS1621+), and have begun integration into my home network. I'm having some problems using it with my Linux hosts. I can mount the NAS, but the permissions (as seen from ...
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I can connect to network drives with the following command: ( echo myusername; echo MYDOMAIN; echo password123 ) | gio mount smb://127.0.0.1/Sharename And I can get some file attributes of the mount ...
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I'm using a Steam Deck which runs Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. It has a read-only filesystem (for system files) but does include kio-fuse (5.0.1). What's the best practice to automatically mount an SMB ...
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My requirement is to find out all such directories in Linux which are mount points for network-based storage/file systems (like NFS, SSHFS, CIFS, SMB, etc) I did some research, and there is no utility ...
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Linux: 4.18.0-305 OS: CentOS 8.4 I have an SMB folder that is mounted with the following command: mount -t cifs -o iocharset=utf8,rw,credentials=${_passwordFile},nobrl,nounix,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=...
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