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 can I tell which version of CIFs is in the kernel if CIFs module isn't loaded?
I need to determine the CIFs version that exists in my kernel, but the CIFs module isn't loaded.
my-user@ip-XX-XX-XX-XX:~$ modinfo kernel/fs/cifs.ko
modinfo: ERROR: Module kernel/fs/cifs.ko not found.
When I run find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type…

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FSTAB CIFS kerberos
How can I force fstab to mount CIFS with machine account kerberos?
From logs it shows that cifs.upcall goes to:
cifs.upcall: get_cachename_from_process_env: cachename = FILE:/tmp/krb5cc
and not on /etc/krb5.keytab which has the computer account…

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mount.cifs takes too long to mount Windows shared folder
Our setup:
Server: Windows Server 2008
Client: SHMZ 6.6 (FreePBX, CentOS)
mount.cifs version: 4.8.1
smbclient version: Version 3.6.23-14.el6_6
Using this command to connect:
mount.cifs //192.168.0.10/Share /mnt/share -o…

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Unable to mount cifs in redhat 6
I am relatively new to Linux, and I am trying to mount a CIFS filesystem from an openfiler instance I have on my network in Red Hat. The openfiler instance is authenticating using AD.
I am able to connect using samba:
smbclient…

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How can I use mount a NetApp NFS drive on Windows so I can create symlinks on it?
I tried two ways of mounting a NetApp NFS drive on a Windows server:
Mounting using SMB/CIFS from NetApp
Mounting as a NFS drive using Windows NFS Sevices
With none of them, Windows did not let me create junction points (Windows flavour of…

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Samba Displaying Folders as Files
I have a Windows share (shared from a Windows Server 2003 box) that is mounted on our Ubuntu server using cifs. That mount is then shared out through Samba. The issue is that all of the folders in the share display as FILES. For example, imagine…

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Cifs losing data or changing permissions on files on Ubuntu 11.10 ((12)Cannot allocate memory: file permissions deny server access:)
I hope this is the right place for this. I have a Ubuntu 11.10 server with Apache on. Apaches doc root is on a shared folder sourced via cifs from a windows Machine.
All this is fine on every network I have set it up on until today when I came to…

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Mapping a drive from Windows on a remote Mac via SMB
I have a Mac Mini in one of our offices that is used as a file server locally. I would like for it to serve the files to remote clients as well.
I have File Sharing enabled and Windows Sharing on in the Sharing settings on Mac. There is a shared…

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How does one mount a MS CIFS share in SmartOS?
How does one mount a Microsoft CIFS share in SmartOS?

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