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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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Filename encoding switched to UTF-8 by tar when untaring to Windows share

We have different Magento installations (webshop) that allows images to be added to a product freely. When an image is added to a product, the file is named in a specific way that sometimes encorporates special characters (for instance German…
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Samba does not reload user group members

I am running a simple samba server setup where users connect to a share which contains folders for specific user groups. The folders are chmod 2770, so only users which are in the correct group can read/write in them. The problem is that if I…
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kerberos cifs multiuser mount from AD PDC

I'm trying to mount a cifs folder on a ubuntu server with multiuser support from a windows DC. I can get user kerberos tickets as root on the server and mount the directory with kerberos without any problems. But I don't want to mount the directory…
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ldap-authentication without sambaSamAccount on linux smb/cifs server (e.g. samba)

i'm currently running samba-3.5.6 on a debian/wheezy host to act as the fileserver for our department's w32-clients. authentication is done via OpenLDAP, where each user-dn has an objectclass:sambaSamAccount that holds the smb-credentials and an…
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Restrict file server (CIFS) access by time of day

How can I (in order of preference, descending): Disable file-server access to a specific share for a user or group based on the time of day. Disable file-server access entirely for a user or group based on the time of day Disable file-server access…
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Cannot unmount CIFS mount?

I am using Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I have a NAS using CIFS protocol. I have mounted a share. I am not using fstab at all. Running mount yields the following: //10.0.1.38/FOO on /home/s3backup/S3Backup/mnt/FOO type cifs (ro,mand) When I attempt to…
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Cannot write to CIFS share as non-root user - CentOS 6

I'm working on a system recently migrated to CentOS 6 from CentOS 4.9. There is a CIFS mount from a Windows 2008 server that existed on the old system. The raw mountpoint has 777 directory permissions. [root@Bootylicious ~]# ls -ld…
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NexentaStor CE or Openfiler? Which do you recommend?

I'm planning to implement a 'poor man's storage' using Openfiler or NexentaStor CE. I need the filer solution to provide iSCSI target and CIFS sharing abilities. The iSCSI target and CIFS share will later be mounted as XenServer Storage…
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How can I improve performance over SMB/CIFS for an application that has poor write speeds?

I have a third party application that reads several large files and generates a third large file. Its performance is quite good when the generated file is stored on "local storage", i.e. either a direct attached or iSCSI-based disk. The source…
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GlusterFS with CIFS, quotas and LDAP

Has anyone had experience plugging GlusterFS and Openfiler together or something similar? Here is the motivation: Disk space on multiple server regrouped using GlusterFS Centralized access using LDAP/AD and quota management using Openfiler as the…
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How to display windows group membership and Permission access in a CIFS mount

I have a CIFS mount point to a Windows Server from my Debian Linux box: mount -t cifs //192.168.0.10/users /mnt/users -o credentials=/etc/demo.smbpass It mounts properly but all the permissions of all the files within the mount are all owned by…
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Mounting windows shares with Active Directory permissions

I've managed to get my Ubuntu (server 10.04 beta 2) box to accept logins from users with Active Directory credentials, now I'd like those users to access their permissible windows shares on a W2003 R2 server. The Windows share ("\srv\Users\") has…
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Apache has a 2GB file limit on a CIFS network drive?

Setup: A Windows and a Ubuntu Server are hosted in VMware ESXi I have a a 6GB file on a Windows share The Windows share is mount on Ubuntu with smbmount A symlink pointing to the 6GB file is created in a public_html directory, which is readable by…
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CIFS mounted drive setting "stick-bit" on all files, cannot change permissions or modify files

I have a folder mounted on an Ubuntu 8.10 sever through cifs that I simply cannot change the permissions on once mounted. Here is a breakdown of what's going on: All files within the mounted folder automatically have their permissions set to…
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No write permission on mounted CIFS drive

I'm on a Linux machine trying to mount an SMB share inside a big network via my Active Directory username: mount -t cifs -o username=myuser,domain=mydomain //server/share /mount/path After the password + succesful mount I try touch…
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