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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using windows startup script to copy files/folders from network share
I'm having an issue running xcopy as part of a startup script.
The server operating system is Windows 2008 R2 and the client operating system is Windows XP SP3.
File server hostname: filesrv1
DNS Alias (CNAME): filesrv
The command being executed…

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Is mount.cifs (SMB) secure with `seal` and `sec=ntlmssp`?
I'm using the csi-driver-smb driver for Kubernetes to mount SMB volumes. Everything works well, but now I'm reading that the default security mode is sec=ntlmssp.
I'm worried, from what I read online, that this is insecure.
I'm also using the seal…

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Is there a web frontend for cifs/smb like Synology Filestation?
I´m looking for a Web-Frontend to browse, download and upload files exported from another Server via SMB.
It has to offer ldap/AD-login for Users and honor the permissions from the Share.
I know most NAS-OS offer this functionality, but it is…

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CentOs fstab mounted cifs folder is empty
I have a folder on my nas mounted in my fstab:
//192.168.1.4/datarr /mnt/datarr cifs username=plex,pass=mypw,uid=1000,gid=999,nobrl 0 0
This was working fine before. Verified in terminal and also because I run plex on the vm and it was working…

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Unable to mount CIFS share using mount.cifs using AD credentials on Centos 7
I'm trying to mount a CIFS share from a storage array on a Centos7 machine, and I'm failing miserably.
sudo mount -t cifs -o vers=2.1,user=domain/myuser //storagearray/Server_Backups /tmp/dbshare/
[sudo] password for myuser:
Password for…

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dfs/cifs problems with kernel 4.18 (rhel8)
We have a rhel8 environment with several windows fileservers in dfs using cifs (auto)mounts.
The mount is working when accessed, but when the cifs filesytems/mounts are in heavy use the cifs mount will hang the server intermitted. Only a…

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How to set up remote home folders on Ubuntu 22.04 using CIFS
I'm trying to set up remote home folders for Ubuntu 22.04 workstations. These workstations are joined to an AD domain using sssd and krb5, and users sign in using their AD credentials. I'm also using pam_mount to mount some CIFS/SMB shares using the…

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CIFS corrupts ext4 FS inside an image mounted on loop
I have a CIFS volume which contains an image file formatted with ext4 and mounted on loop. Sometimes the ext4 FS corrupt itself and the following lines shows in the logs:
Jan 30 04:00:02 server1 kernel: [817452.247111] CIFS: Attempting to mount…

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Bind on cifs filesystem overmounts when using `mount -a`
I am using following cifs mount and bind:
//myfiler.example.com/share /mnt/mount-path cifs vers=3.0,credentials=/root/.cred,gid=0,uid=0 0 0
/mnt/mount-path/folder-in-share /mnt/archiv bind defaults,bind …

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Mount CIFS is seeing directory on network share only if extra directory is created
On my CentOS ver 7, I have mounted drive from Windows Server 2019 (with shared name "Backup-disk"), and on this drive I have two directories ("A" and "B").
Now I have mounted drive with this command:
sudo mount -t cifs -o…

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Who really has this Office document on a NAS shared folder open?
I've encountered this before, but this is the first time I decided to ask about it.
One of my managers (call them M) wanted to open an Excel document on a shared drive. Excel told them that user A already had it open for editing. User A was on…

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Mount smb remote storage on debian with local disk caching using FS-Cache for CIFS
I am trying to connect a smb remote storage to my debian server and use the available space on the local disk as a cache using FS-Cache for CIFS. I have already tried the following code but it doesn't seem to work because the local disk space is not…

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My samba share does not keep permissions when moving files onto it. What am I missing?
I have a samba server running on a debian host so I can share an specific directory with an ubuntu client machine.
This directory on host has no files on it.
Samba config on host is as follows:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
[share_name]
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mount error(112): Host is down
I want to mount the shared folder from windows to raspberry pi. The goal is to save the images in shared folder after I captured images with pi camera. However, I have got mount error(Host is down). Anybody having this issue before? Then pls help me…
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Connect Windows device to SMB share via SSH tunnel with WSL
I need to connect to an SMB share via SSH tunnel from a Windows computer. I have a tunnel set up in Putty to go from port 8445 to myserver:445. There is no way to specify an alternate port for the native Windows SMB functionality. I have installed…

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