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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Solaris 11 CIFS pam_smb
After installing a CIFS server on Solaris 11 today I run into a problem after updating
the /etc/pam.d/other to include the line "other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn".
After that I can no longer set any password by using "passwd"…

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Mounting NAS drive with cifs using credentials file through fstab does not work
I can mount the drive in the following way, no problem there:
mount -t cifs //nas/home /mnt/nas -o username=username,password=pass\!word,uid=1000,gid=100,rw,suid
However if I try to mount it via fstab I get the following error:
//nas/home /mnt/nas…

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automount a windows share
I have this line and it works
mount -t cifs -o myuser //192.168.0.12/Public/Docs /mnt/cifs_shares/Docs
But then I try with autofs and it doesn't
In /etc/auto.master:
/mnt/cifs_shares/Docs /etc/auto.cifs_shares
and in…

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Trying to re-attach CIFS ISO share, XenServer SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_222
My CIFS mount for ISOs stopped working recently. I tried to detatch it and re-attach it, however I get the following error: https://i.stack.imgur.com/2529G.jpg
I tried looking this error up, however I cannot conclusively determine what is failing. I…

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Using NDMP as an alternative to CIFS mount
I have a weird but interesting use-case. I use CIFS to mount shares from a File Server (NetApp, EMC etc) to an application server (win/linux server where my application runs). My application needs to process each of the file from the shares that I…

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Samba share for user groups with Ubuntu. A user can't access files created by other users
I have a folder mounted by using NFS on the server. That folder has subdirectories, and I want to share specific folders to specific user groups by using SAMBA.
It doesn't work as expected, because every user can create files, but then they can only…

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Windows applications do not see files on CIFS share mapped without FQDN
I've run into another oddity recently on our cluster with respect to Windows 2003 and Windows 7 (using Explorer or even plain batch files, C# programs, FORTRAN programs, etc) and files on a CIFS share mapped without our fully-qualified-domain name.…

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Map a remote CIFS share in a Windows client through a third server
My desktop machine is a Windows 7 PC. I need to access some file shares on the remote Windows server JASON using a set of Windows credentials. However, the server JASON is behind a firewall, so to access it I normally have to connect to a special…

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XenServer 5.6.0 / XenCenter not allowing SR to Windows 7 share on Domain Controller for ISO's
I'm unable to get an SR made using command prompt or using XenCenter's interface dialogs.
Here is the command I'm issuing:
xe-mount-iso-sr ///iso_share -o…

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openVPN - print to remote client
LAN (192.168.44.x)
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openVPN WinXP ws1 (192.168.44.37)
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remote winXP…

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file copy error from system to cifs mount
When coping a file greater than 64kB from an Ubuntu server to a CIFS mounted windows share, most of the data is copied, but it seems the last chunk doesn't get copied. The size doesn't match, and the md5 check sums don't match. I have plenty of…

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ENOEXEC on CIFS in SUSE
I am trying to execute a program on a CIFS mounted partition in SUSE 11.1. Whenever I try executing it, I get a "could not execute binary file" error. Using strace, I was able to determine that the shell was getting a ENOEXEC error on execve(). I…

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rsync files created or modified from windows share on cifs mount
I want to rsync the files to my local linux box, but I only want files that have been created or modified within the past 30 days.
I'm mounting a windows share from linux using this command:
mount -t cifs //Share/public /mnt/ntserver -o…

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Is it possible to access Alfresco CIFS through Internet?
I know it's a security issue, but just by curiosity (I can't find a proper answer to that!), is it possible?
I defined cifs.broadcast=255.255.255.255 in the Alfresco configuration, but whatever I define, I can't access it.
I'm trying :…

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How to track physical drives to server LUNs & mount points
I need to document which physical drives each server depends on ( SAN, on an external array, iSCSI etc). Since this potentially a many-many relationship, with dependencies, finding a usable solution is a small challenge.
What tools (or Excel…

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