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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How to display free disk space on cifs mount on linux command line?
In case there's any distinction between OS and shell necessary, I want to run the command on Ubuntu 14.04 with Linux 3.13 in GNU bash 4.3.11. mount.cifs's version is 6.0 using smb2 protocol.
After mounting a share with sudo mount -t cifs -o…

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Can't access SMB shares on Windows but can on Linux
I've been having some problems with a Samba share that I recently set up.
The share's configuration is as follows:
[data]
path = /media/data
available = yes
valid users = admin
read only = no
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
I have been…

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Problem accessing Windows shares when using a domain
I've had the following problems on multiple Windows networks (using domains) which have a password expiration policy:
After a while the user can't access network resources. This seems to be caused by the fact that the users password has expired,…

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I can't automount cifs filesystem
I have some problem with automount.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
Here is /etc/auto.master file.
#+auto.master
/mnt/nfs /etc/auto.nfs --timeout=60 --ghost
/mnt/samba /etc/auto.sam --timeout=60 --ghost
And this is /etc/auto.nfs file.
public -fstype=nfs4…

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CIFS volume not mounting automatically
My CIFS volume is not mounting automatically while boot (like other partitions). This is relevant part of my /etc/fstab:
//leonidas/files /media/photos cifs …

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Samba, CIFS and Deleting Files
So I've got a Samba share located on server A. I have that share mounted to two other servers, B and C. The idea is that B and C need to write temporary files to a single location so that multiple background processing jobs (also running on B and…
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Mount a shared windows folder in debian
I am trying to mount a shared windows folder on my debian machine. I have installed smbclient and cifs-utils and then to mount it I enter /etc/fstab and apply the following line
//xx.xxx.xx.xx/Reports /var/www/csv/tmp cifs guest 0 0
Then I run a…

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NetApp Data ONTAP PowerShell Get Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) Flag?
I am trying to find out what CIF Shares have the Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) flag set on them through the NetApp Data ONTAP PowerShell CMDLET. You can set it through the CLI by using
controller> cifs shares -change sharename -accessbasedenum
I…

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Share CIFS mounted drive with all users
A CIFS share, mounted as network drive, seems to be visible only to the user who set it up. Is there a way to make the drive accessible to all the local users on the system ?
Trying to achieve this through command line.

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CIFS share on Freenas not giving full control to AD users
I've managed to setup a FreeNAS server and connect it to AD. My problem comes when I try to edit permissions from windows. I already set the owner to be an AD user that I'm logged in with, but when I try to edit a dir ACL and apply the changes I…

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mount -t cifs with krb5i
I am trying to mount a windows 2008 R2 share on my centos6 64 server and am getting the following message as a response to the mount:
mount -t cifs //esb.local/dfs /mnt/win --verbose -o…

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How can I add a linux folder to a Windows DFS tree?
Accessing a Windows DFS share from Ubuntu or any other Linux for that matter, is pretty straight forward. However doing it in reverse seems to be not documented.
I have DFS Namespace running on Windows Server 2008. I would like to add a folder that…

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mount.cifs error 14 but smbclient works
I have a debian server and I want to mount an external Win2008R2 share using cifs. I get:
error 14: bad address.
Using the same arguments with smbclient I can connect with success and browse share content.
my command is:
$ mount -t cifs…

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mount cifs permission denied
Hi I have tried to mount with three ways for all of them I got the same error.
1)
sudo chmod 777 /estore
sudo mount –t cifs -o user=domain/username%MYPASSWORD,noserverino //domain /estore
2)
sudo chmod 777 /estore
sudo mount –t cifs -o…

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DFS CIFS shares not responding to demand
I'm hoping someone can help me here with understanding how a windows file copy differs between a copy using terracopy (or similar) and what that means for contention on my NAS head.
Background:
Server 1 - 2008r2 NAS head with a Stornext volume…

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