The Common Internet File System (previously known as SMB) is a layer 7 networking protocol providing file and device sharing across local networks. It was originally designed and implemented by Microsoft as part of the Windows operating system.
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Creating fileshares with CIFS linux/windows securely
We've recently had a customer ask for this; I'm uncertain as to whether in the future they would require more than one user to access this fileshare, so I have set it up with groups. Can you cast your eyes over this set-up and see if I'm missing…

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mounted network disk with cifs doesn't allow to move created folders
I can create, delete and rename folder (as long, as it is stays on the same level) on an cifs connected network disk, but I cannot move them.
When I try to move one dir inside of another dir, it gives me access denied.
When I login to the ssh and…

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IIS 8.5 500.19 status code with 0x80070038 access share
We are experiencing an intermittent issue with websites accessing resources/images over CIFS/SMB shares (running on our storage array). It comes and goes and we are trying to get to the bottom of it.
The error code in the browser is 500.19 with the…

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Wanting Cifs / Samba to restamp times with server-time for "mv" commands
Short background
I have built a small cluster of linux machines and been creating and running scripts for distributed computing. After having gotten some basic things up and running now I'm tuning my scripts trying to adapt timings to do some…

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Robocopy permission denied as I cannot traverse folders
I am in the process of migrating few NAS shares from one storage to other. I am using robocopy to do the migration. Let me try to explain the issue. Sorry in case if its lengthy.
I have cifs share created in my source share\nas-strg1\data. Once we…
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Ubuntu 14 mount.cifs with credentials did not work
I can mount the Windows share drive in the following way:
mount.cifs //192.168.1.151/_wymiana /mnt/share_2 -o user=wega,password=1234
but I can not in this way:
mount.cifs //192.168.1.151/_wymiana /mnt/share_2 -o…

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CentOS 7 autofs wildcard mount not working
I've got a couple of CentOS 7 client machines authenticating against OpenLDAP right now. The next step is to get autofs working. Which I have, but my map loads all users at once. I'd like to avoid this. Assume I have two users
user1
user2
They…

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coreos mount cifs or sshfs or any other networked file system
For development I want to mount a file share from my windows dev box inside my CoreOS VM, so I can then mount that volume inside a container.
CoreOS doesn't appear to support doing this, and comes with no package manager; the idea being it is only a…

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cifs shared mount on linux doesn't read folder
I have CIFS share from EMC storage which is mounted on Linux and also on other windows & mac machines.
At Linux server, CIFS share mounted with mount.cifs. My linux server has php code running on it. The php code can create files and folder.
At the…
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Incomplete directory listing when accessing a share
I have a CIFS server configured as standAlone and I am trying to access a shared folder on it via a Windows 7 client. However, not all the files in the folder are listed.
Network traces shows that the client sends a close2 request after a FindFirst…

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Is it possible to mount CIFS onto Solaris 10 server
I want to mount a SAN CIFS share on a solaris 10 u11 server.
I found and info doc from Oracle saying its not supported until Solaris 11.
Are there any 3rd party / Freeware tools for Solaris 10 that will enable the mounting of a CIFS share on Solaris…

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Optimal mount options for Windows Server 2012 R2
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I have a directory that is shared by a Windows Server 2012 R2. Some Linux clients (Ubuntu 14.04) mount this share via /etc/fstab:
//10.1.1.1/MyShare /mnt/myshare cifs…

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Ubuntu mount-point map Windows Share gets permissions denied error
We have an EMC storage appliance that serves Windows Shares via CIFS protocol.
On Ubuntu I need to create a mount-point that maps the Windows Share.
When I run this shell script :
sudo apt-get install -y smbfs
sudo mkdir -p /mapdir
sudo mount -t…

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Can "fast fail" of SMB/CIFS hosts be tuned?
We have a Windows 2008 file server that's going off-line intermittently. When it's down, the Windows 2003 web servers pile up requests with pending file operations.
I ran some tests using ColdFusion, and I noticed that if you request a file on a…

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Output of 'ls' changes every time it runs in CIFS mounted windows share - RHEL 4
I have a RHEL 4 server in our organisation. One windows (2003) share is mounted on the server using CIFS. Output mount shows something like this:
//windows.server.fqdn/share on /mnt/shared1 type cifs (rw,mand)
/etc/fstab…

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