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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Slow rsync from Linux to Windows
I backup files using rsync from RHEL Linux to Windows 10 Pro using SMB/CIFS share. It works fine except it is much slower than Linux to Linux. Both computers are fairly modern Dell OptiPlex, having 6-core CPUs, 16GB memory, NVMe disks, 1 GigE NICs.…

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Fedora 36 Workstation vs Fedora 36 Server
The description of the environment might sound complicated at first, but it is a typical small office setup -- Windows Domain, Windows and Linux workstations, a few NAS.
I have two machines that are the subject of my problem. One was recently…

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Mount error (112) - Host is down, specifying SMB protocol version does not resolve issue
Hoping someone can help.
I have previously been able to mount a local network drive to my server (was running Ubuntu 16.04.7, now running 18.04.6). However, recently when I try it gives the following error:
mount error(112): Host is down
I use the…

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I can't mount windows folder in centos through mount -t cifs
everyone!
I have windows folder. This folder is available from my windows 10 OS.
At the server with Centos 8 I did:
sudo mkdir /mnt/sbsp
sudo mount -t cifs //bk.local/BurgerKing/NetDisks/K/Бухгалтерия/Сбер_Спасибо_Отчет /mnt/sbsp -o…
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Rsync always failing at the same point
I made a script for my Proxmox host to copy its daily backups to another machine (running Windows Server 2019).
The script mounts a CIFS share and runs this rsync command:
rsync -aqzP --delete --delete-excluded /mnt/raid/ /mnt/backups --exclude…

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Ubuntu 18.04 multi-AD-User mount share in /home
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 server which is joined to our windows domain. I have set up so users can log in to the server using their AD creds which is working great. I also set up script that mounts a windows share automatically at login.
sudo mount -t…

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Unraid share fails to mount on OpenWRT using mount.cifs?
So I have an Unraid machine with some shares on it and I would like to be able to mount this share on my OpenWRT router for backing up/transfering files onto the router (avoids having to plug-in/remove USB constantly as the share is also mounted on…

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What are the mechanics behind a CIFS "readonly" mount?
I wrote a Linux (RHEL7) service that regularly polls a bunch of industrial machines for log files. To accomplish that, I've mounted the hard drives of the Win7 control computers of the machines on the Linux system like this (in…

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Use autofs on host with Docker
I'm mounting CIFS share on a host to /mnt/nas using autofs.
On the host I'm running a PHP Docker container.
I can mount the /mnt/nas to this container using volumes inside a docker-compose.yml.
The problem is that it seems that the PHP process…

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Apache to share a /mount where the web page is stored using the networked connection. This worked using xampp ugh. Now using ubuntu
So this page Where to put the web pages in /var/www/ or /var/www/html/ in apache? is similar to what I am asking. The rules wont allow me to ask joining questions to expand on that discussion. There are several others about /mount and fstab that…

Chris Owen
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Incorrect Folder Pemissions on CIFS Mount
(I'll start by acknowledging that there are lots of questions and answers out there about mount permissions and I have tried a lot of the proposed solutions without success.)
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 and I'm using CIFS to mount a directory from a Windows…
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Mounting Windows share fails with STATUS_TRUSTED_RELATIONSHIP_FAILURE
I regularily mount a shared drive from a Windows 2012R2 server on a Linux machine (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed). Since last Thursday when updates where installed on the Windows server the mount fails with the error message
Aug 26 11:45:27 …

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log in fails when mount point changes
I am mounting a windows 10 share on a Centos 7 machine via /etc/fstab like so:
//10.11.11.7/shared_folder /path/to/mount_point cifs user,rw,suid,uid=0,gid=1111,username=win_user,password=win_user,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0777,vers=3.0 0 0
When…

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NAS drive mounted RW (in Linux) but some subdirectories are read-only
I'm mounting a set of NAS drives on my Linux box (Ubuntu 20.04) and everything seems to be working fine for most of the drives:
sudo mount -t cifs //mynas/mydrive /mnt/mydrive -o \
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Using custom auth through hardware device on Windows network map drive possible?
I want to custom the auth method when connecting smb as a client on Windows to a linux server.
I expect to it to work like this: When connecting as a network map drive, Windows auth center will read from a specified hardware interface(eg. a com…

Liang Mury
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