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Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.

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Samba Public and "Dropbox" folder

I want to create a special Group Directory structure for my Users. /home/groupA - home folder for groupA where every user of groupA can create/edit/delete files /home/groupA/Public - Public Folder where every user can read…
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OS X: Finder error -36 when using SMB shares on a Samba server bound to AD

We're looking at deploying SMB homes on Debian (5.0.3) for our mac clients rather than purchasing four new Xserves. We've got our test servers built and functioning properly. Windows clients behave perfectly, but we've run into an issue with OS X…
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Strange STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED issue with SMB2 client and Freenas CIFS SHARE

I've recently started seeing some strange SMB2 Errors on Windows 10 PCs (all of them version 1903). The Fileserver is running FreeNAS-11.1-U7 (with ZFS Volumes) and CIFS Shares with Active Directory ACL. When I open some images from Adobe Bridge or…
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Finding PDC from domain name in Linux (Linux equivalent of nltest /dcname:MYDOMAIN)

I can find the PDC (Primary Domain Controller) from my Windows machine using the command nltest /dcname:MYDOMAIN. I need to find the PCD from a Linux machine. Is there a way? The only information that my script will have is the domain name and user…
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SMB does not present permissions on looped up raw disk image / backup of a Windows NTFS volume

I have a raw copy of a Windows NTFS volume on my Linux machine. When I loop it and share it out on a domain-joined Linux machine via Samba as-follows -- [global] workgroup = realm = …
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Does samba need to fetch the entire file to determine its size?

Given the following configuration: server with samba version 4.7.6-ubuntu client mounts a samba share using mount -t cifs If a du -h /shared/filename command is executed on the client, will the client need to fetch the entire file from the server…
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Are the in-built sharesmb / sharensfs options in ZFS on Linux special/better?

While reading through the man page of zfs I noticed the sharesmb and sharenfs options. Are they thin wrappers over samba/smb/cifs/nfs provided by the underlying Linux system, or special/optimised code baked right into ZFS? Is there anything peculiar…
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"git init" via "gio mount" on samba: fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'

I want to push my repository to a Samba share mounted via GNOME's Nautilus. I believe it uses gio mount under the hood. However, when I try to run git init in a mounted Samba share, I get the following error: error: chmod on…
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Linux And NTFS Permissions

Trying to restrict a folder within a directory created in linux filesystem. I have changed the permissions to: root rwx, a special active directory group rwx and all others r. Upon doing so, people that are not in the special AD group can access…
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Samba 4.9.0 ./configure lmdb error

I'm very new to Linux and installing Samba and I'm trying to make my Centos 7 into a ADDC. However, whenever I want to configure I get the following message: Checking for lmdb >= 0.9.16 via header check : not found Samba AD DC and…
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Samba Permissions - I'm going to throw it!

I'm attempting to set up a samba share on my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS box, to be consumed by my mac and windows clients. I've created a 'samba' group and added my linux users to them, gave them samba passwords, I can connect and place files, everything is…
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Windows 7 joining OS X Server domain

We're having trouble getting a new Windows 7 Ultimate machine joined to an OS X domain. I found this Apple KB article discussing the very same issue we're having. Basically, when entering all the information to join the domain (which all works fine…
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Network access stalls for some time on centos7 + zfs + samba installation

I have storage server with CentOS7 with 4 HDDs running on raidz (Raid 5). I access the files on it via samba. When I copy files from it or watch movies sometimes the reading from samba is blocked for 10 seconds and then continues. I have no idea how…
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samba share in /etc/fstab is ignored during mount -a but manual mount works

It's one of these problems I'm running into every time that I set up a server :-( I have an Ubuntu server 16.04 and would like to auto-mount a samba share. In my /etc/fstab I have the entry: //10.10.2.2/share /media/share cifs …
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Change Windows ACLs of SMB Samba Shares - directly in linux

Is there a way to set the Windows ACLs from files and folders of an Samba Share directly through Linux itself? I know there is the option setfacl/getfacl but they can only change between: - DENY | READ-ONLY | FULL-Control - if I got this right. But…
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