Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.
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How to mount a windows administrative share on linux via SMB
I'm currently trying to mount a windows shared drive under linux.
The machine is using windows 7 and by default it shares all windows drives if you login as an administrator. I've been able to login and list/copy/delete files via my android phone…

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Combined NFS, Samba server w users from Active Directory
I want to build a server that exports user home directories over SMB/CIFS and NFS. This server would be joined to a Win2k3 AD domain controller that holds our user database. As I understand it, winbind will invent UIDs for these users on the fly.…

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What is the difference between sambaLMPassword and sambaNTPassword?
While configuring a linux server with samba and LDAP support I came across these two fields. What's the difference between them?
At the moment, the server is only using samba to share each user's home directory through the network, authenticating…

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Windows 10 share to MS-Dos 6.22 failing after an update from Windows 7
Updated a Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 and can no longer connect to the network share on a dos machine. The MSDOS 6.22 machine is a piece of industrial hardware that uses a mapped network drive connecting via netuse x: \\smbserver\dxcontrol
The…

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Copying terabytes of hundreds of thousands of files in folder slow
I am currently running FreeNAS and using SMB 3 on windows machines to copy folders with 80000+ files that are all about 35MB each. Here is the config
FreeNAS
2x40Gbps connections bonded
connection SMB Share with SMB 3.1 enabled
1 Xeon 8 core with…

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Use NTLMv2 Authentication with Samba
Trying to connect to Samba shares on a Linux host with a Windows 10 client, even after setting the client Security Policy to allow non-NTLMv2 authentication, the client still gives errors like "The specified password is not correct." when using…

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Windows 2008 share times out when accessed from Linux clients after 10 minutes following WannaCry patches and updates
A bit of background
We have a Windows 2008 server that users use to store all kinds of data.
It has smb share to a specific folder, that needs to be accessed by several Ubunutu servers via cifs.
It worked all great until recently we had to patch…

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samba nmbd: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received
The nmbd logs of a linux samba4 domain member server are filled with lines like:
query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 192.168.1.54 for name ADOMAIN<1d>.
This response was from IP 192.168.1.19, reporting an IP…

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Windows 10 PE Unable to map network drive anonymously
I'm trying to set up a imaging environment. The idea is to use DISM to apply WIM images (Windows 10 Pro) over the network.
I am able to boot into Windows 10 PE. I have network connectivity via DHCP.
When I try to map the network share using net…

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How would you add a share to smb.conf via a script?
I'd like to script adding a share to a smb.conf file. My current script just appends it to the end of the file, but that's not ideal. I'd rather have something that will add a new share if it doesn't exist, and replace it if it does.
I'm currently…

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Windows 7 not able to connect to Samba
I'm trying out Win7, and i'm trying to connect to the networked samba share as I have been able to in Vista & XP with no issues. Samba is running on Ubuntu, if that helps.
I've tried changing the following in the local security policy as i've seen…

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Can't mount samba share, but can access using smbclient
I have a network share on Windows server in my local network.
I can access this share using smbclient on my Ubuntu 13.10 (with installed cifs-utils package) desktop like this:
smbclient \\\\192.168.5.2\\source -W DOMAIN -U…

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Trying to rename a file via Samba; fails if there is a '2' in the filename
This seems a bizarre issue, hope someone might shed some light. I set up some samba folders on a couple of ubuntu servers for the users to do some file management. After moving a file into the share, the user is trying to rename the file from…

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Samba standalone server using LDAP for authentication: SID mismatch
I'm trying to get my new samba server running for days now and I start losing my mind over not figuring out what I'm doing wrong. Here's my setup:
OpenLDAP 2.4.21 server with ~15 groups and >100 users, all having a unix and a samba password stored…

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AD group membership changes not reflected in winbind information
I have inherited several RHEL5 servers that were set up to authenticate users against their AD accounts via winbind. Everything works fine until I update group membership in AD. For some users, the changes never make it to the output of the…
Peter Lubans