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.
Questions tagged [cifs]
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Cloud Storage Provider with file handles
Is there a cloud storage provider that provides file handles similarly to CIFS/SMB? We are using Dropbox and we would like to receive a warning when a file is opened by someone else (if there's a conflict it just creates a backup file). We don't…

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Must `kinit` user's ticket manually before PAM can mount SMB home directory at login
Ubuntu 14.04 file server
Ubuntu 14 Active directory (AD) server running Samba 4
Ubuntu 18 client (fresh install)
I've configured for Ubuntu user home directories to be mounted via PAM and SMB/CIFS.
The test directory will mount via CIFS manually,…

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NFS - Very slow performance with small files (Also with CIFS)
I am having very bad performance with NFS between two debian stretch machines, and I can't find a solution.
I am using rsync at the server side in the exports file and tcp,hard,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 at the client side as options when…

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mounted windows disk: incomplete directory listing
I have a series of Windows shared disks mounted on my Linux machine. I have lines like this in /etc/fstab:
//10.5.0.136/i /media/i cifs…

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SMB/CIFS verify data integrity
I'm in the middle of setting up a new fileserver on my network, and can't decide which file-transfer protocol to use. Ensuring that any data transferred to/from the server isn't corrupted in transit is my highest priority, since I'll be transferring…

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"Mount error 13" on CIFS connection w/o Domain Admin
Scenario
I have following clients in my network:
Quartz I2S scanner with embedded Linux firmware
Windows client (not domain-joined) for comparison
These will be trying to access a network share on domain-joined Windows Server 2016 using a domain…

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What is bottlenecking my SMB share?
I set up a SMB/CIFS share on my FreeNAS box (Xeon E3-1220v5, 8GB DDR4 RAM) and I noticed that transfer rates are limited to ~70 MB/s, while I can easily get around 110 MB/s via WebDAV and using iperf I can achieve the complete theoretical maximum of…

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Initial delay when browsing SMB share from Windows
We have a NAS (Synology, running DSM 6) which is connected to our Active Directory on a Windows 2016 server. The NAS has 7 shared folders which are shared using SMB2.
When browsing to the NAS using Windows Explorer (tested on both Windows 7 and…

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Mounting Azure Files Share
When I try to mount with the following command:
mount -v -t cifs //.file.core.windows.net/ -o username=,password=,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,vers=3.0
It works perfectly if I run…

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How to create CIFS docker volume with username, password, uid, and gid
I am trying to create docker volumes using the docker-volume-netshare driver from here: https://github.com/ContainX/docker-volume-netshare
The sequence should be like this:
docker volume create -d cifs
docker run -v …

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Mount CIFS-share with users Kerberos-Ticket
we want to mount shares through autofs. Nothing special we thought. But: this must be done in some complex active directory circumstances. What we have:
integrated Ubuntu 14.04 workstations on which users can login with their windows credentials.…

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Cache of share in windows server
I have a folder, which is shared by Windows Server 2012 R2. When I setup this share, I saw in the configure share setting panel, it has a check box for Allow caching of share with the comment Caching makes the contents of the share avaiable to…

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mount.cifs operation not supported but smbclient connects as expected
When mounting OSX 10.9.5 shares on Debian 8.2 with mount.cifs ver. 6.4:
mount error(95): Operation not supported
Credentials are not the issue. I can access them via smbclient. Mount reads domain and username from the credentials file correctly. I…

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How do I configure a CIFS only NetApp filer for ssh public-private key access?
I've a NetApp filer that's running exclusively CIFS. (/vol/vol0 is CIFS exported)
Account logins via ssh are possible as DOMAIN\username, but we're having difficulty with configuring ssh public-private key pairs.
Normally we'd create an…

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cifs Required Key Not Available
I have joined to a zentyal domain (AD Domain) using PowerBroker IS and I want it to mount my remote home directories when a remote user logs in.
this is the config for PBIS:
AllowDeleteTo ""
AllowReadTo ""
AllowWriteTo ""
MaxDiskUsage…

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