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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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How to log if a user removes a file from samba share

I am working over the default Samba that comes with RHEL 6.x version. I am successful in sharing a samba share to my client users. I have given each of them a set of credentials using which they have to connect to samba server and upload or download…
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File permissions issue on OS X El Capitan and SMB share

Since we upgraded to OSX El Capitan we experienced some strange file permissions errors with our SMB server. We have a ubuntu server machine hosting our working files over a SMB shared folder to each of our Mac workstations. We use Git over SMB with…
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Shared Disk in modern data center (SAN, virtualization, etc)

I'm a developer...treading here on foreign terrain. Please pardon any naivete. I work on an application that stores data both in a database and the filesystem. Context: Clustering and Network Shares In the past when we ran the application clustered…
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Windows file explorer using port 80 (webdav) instead of 445 (samba smb cifs) for UNC path

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate x86_64 machine, which is failing to access a network samba server. I launch the "Run" dialog, and type in \\192.168.x.x so I am bypassing DNS and NetBIOS name resolution, and broadcast discovery, just going directly to…
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Windows workstations in a Windows domain with a Linux domain controller

There's a Windows network of about 60 workstations I am going to be responsible for. The network is in a terrible mess, so I decided to rebuild it from the ground up. Currently, there are some Windows Server installations running, one of which takes…
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Linux machine is in a windows domain, but domain logon isn't working

We have a small network in our department 2 Win Server 2008 Domain Controller 1 debian webserver a number of win7 Clients My predecssor tried to add the webserver to our domain in order to login there with user accounts from our domain (mostly…
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What is Best NAS solution for windows workgroup? freenas or openfiler

we have small network of 15 computer. we want to store data in nas box with raid configured so that it can be accessed by all users. it will be document, excel, pdf and database files. what is best solution use freenas - openfiler or setup ubuntu…
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Samba4 [homes] share

I am having issues with the [homes] share. OS is Ubuntu 12.04. I've installed samba 4.0.3, bind9 dlz, ntp, winbind, everything but pam modules, and did all the tests from https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO. Running getent passwd and…
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Folder Showing up as a File when viewed via Samba on a NetApp

we want to change files on our NetApp file server, and on every change of these files - a Debian machine duplicates the files to two other shares. Because of the duplication method we're using lsync, we need to mount the Samba share (of the NetApp…
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Samba - Authenticating with Local User Accounts

I'm looking to have my users use their local accounts on my Linux servers without the need to create a separate user/password for Samba. Is there any way to use the /etc/passwd file as the the authentication mechanism when they go to map a drive? …
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Automatic wake on LAN in Linux when accessing remote filesystem

I have a small server which runs Ubuntu, running webserver and other things, and as such is on 24/7. It also serves as our file server for the majority of frequently used files, serving files through samba. I also have a much larger server with…
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Samba domain trust errors on a specific interface

We have a windows domain that also has a RHEL member server in it. All the servers have a primary network connection to the LAN, but some servers also have private dedicated links to the RHEL server, which serves as a head to our SAN storage. This…
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How do Active Directory domain joined computers (native MS Windows or Linux with winbind) determine the closest password server?

How do Active Directory domain joined computers (native MS Windows or Linux with winbind) determine the closest password server? This question implies a cluster with 2+ Active Directory servers in different locations. On Windows there is no apparent…
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smbclient NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED on directories when Windows doesn't

I'm setting up BackupPC on a server and it uses smbclient to backup Windows 7 workstations. smbclient logs in correctly to \\TESTHOST\C$ as TESTDOMAIN\backupoperator (Which is also a domain admin and a "Backup Operator" on the TESTHOST) but returns…
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Debian Samba server reports free size of root drive, not all drives

I am running a Samba server on a Debian box. It works fine; Windows can read and write to it just fine, but there's one issue. The folder I'm sharing over Samba (/var/samba) is stored on my main drive, which is an old 40GB IDE drive. Inside that…
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