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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Why do I get duplicate network name errors on my VMware NAT network?
I am trying to create hidden "mini-LANs" for use in testing application deployment and using VMware workstation on Vista x64 to create the machines.
Two instances of Windows XP are running. They both have single NICs on the NAT'ed virtual adapter…
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Maximum Size Limit for CIFS Share Accessed by Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) Client?
We have a CIFS share being served out by a NETAPP appliance. The CIFS share has grown to over 2 TB in size. A Windows Server 2003 32 bit-client accesses the share.
Lets say, for example, the CIFS share grew to 3 TB in size. Would the…
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Setting Linux UID on NFS volume from EMC NX4
I have an EMC NX4 from which there are several CIFS shares with corresponding NFS mount points. The CIFS user ids seem fine but when viewed from Linux they are all 327xx numbers and can't be set from the file system. (IE CHOWN doesn't work -…
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CIFS Mount issue - Unable to write
After doing the cifs mount we are unable to touch on the share with the user kvk. But we are able to do the same as a root user. following are the configuration and error log.
Fedora version 15:
fstab:
///HS /home/kvk/share/HS …
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Can you set CIFS permisions from EMC Command Line?
I am in the process of migrating file shares from my EMC NS-20 to my new VNXe 3100. I am using a RoboCopy script to move the files but am getting errors on some files and folders. I have Domain Admin privileges but when I go to view the security…
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Mounting a CIFS share through vfstab in OpenSolaris
I'm trying to set up a CIFS share that will mount automatically on my OpenSolaris server. It seems like it would be simple enough, but there's something wrong in my syntax that's preventing it from mounting.
The line in /etc/vfstab looks…
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Access Vista Share from RHEL 5.3 Server - mount error 110
I am trying to access a file share on a Vista box from a RHEL 5.3 server.
The Vista box is part of a domain, but it has two NIC cards. One is on the 158.x.x.x network. The other card is on the 10.10.10.x network. RHEL box is on the 10.10.10.x…
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SYSTEM user (Windows 2003) through network
We're trying to connect an email server with a NAS device. Email server runs over Windows 2003 Server and NAS device with Open-E. No "Active Directory", just shared folders with CIFS.
In order to ensure the connection between them, we've changed the…
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Does Google Search Appliance care about files permissions?
My file server has different files visible to different people, based on groups and file permissions.
I planned to buy a Google Search Appliance and configure it to crawl this network shared drive via CIFS (aka SMB).
Will the search appliance…
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SMB/CIFS connection, attempting to change the permissionswithin rhel5 to comply with the clients needs
I can get the mount to work and as written in /etc/fstab:
//pcsprdvhost.prod.tsh.mis.mckesson.com/sftphome /sftphome2 cifs …
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Backup Exec backup-to-disk folder creation - Access denied
I'm having a difficult time creating a backup-to-disk folder in Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 and Backup Exec 2010. The backend storage is a Nexenta/ZFS-based NAS filer sharing the volume via CIFS. I've also seen the issue on other *nix-based NAS…
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Mount.cifs not supported during pxe install, but working after reboot. Why?
I'm having trouble adding to AD on pxe-unattended install.
The problem is on mount.cifs, a script wich gives me the following error on pxe boot install, works 2 minutes later, after the reboot.
Does anyone have an idea about what is happening…
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Share a folder with no authentication request
i'm running Windows XP SP3 , in a workgroup.
I need to share a folder on volume C: (FAT32 formatted) and i need this to be available in R/W to everybody, without asking for a login. I mean i dont want the login request to appear at all, and the…
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Mounting 200 cifs mount points eats all the CPU. Is it correct?
Abstract: I need a way to monitor cifs mountpoints and I don't know how.
Hello,
I have a virtual machine with 2 CPU and 1Gb RAM running debian 5.
It mounts some of our users cifs shared folders, 200 cifs mountpoints approx.
There is an apache server…
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making the share read only
I 'm sorry to come over again,
I was thinking of making the share read only from celerra manager( CIFS only) by R clicking on file system.
"the NAS share (\nas12\termemployee$) to read-only to lock it from any further updates"
But , i see somebody…
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