Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol.
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Can't use ssh in a VM Centos
When I tried to connect my Ubuntu 13.10 to my VM Centos 6.5 using ssh appear the message "Connection refused" or "No route to host" even than I change the port, noting change. See here
I need to use SSH, VPN and Samba, but this IP in my VM Centos do…

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How to add context menu entries on a Samba share
The Samba server is running on Linux, the clients are Windows machines (Windows XP and Windows 7). Is it possible to extend the client-side context menus for files and folders on the mounted shares, by configuring something on the server-side…

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Finding a user's home from bash
I'm trying to get the value of a user's home from a puppet script. This particular user is a Samba user, not a local one, with the username of the form DOMAIN\user.
I've tried the following, with no success:
echo "~DOMAIN\\user" ( outputs the exact…

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Adding win7 shared folders to *nix domain?
I have a CentOS 6.x/ NIS based network from which I need to start sharing some folders to Win7 machines. I've installed Samba on a test system but can't seem to get the trick of having the Win7 systems authenticate to NIS.
I've found a number of…

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RedHat/CentOS environment discovery
I am working with a new client who lost their IT person and are trying to document what they have. It's a Linux/SunOS environment.
I am trying to find their Samba or equivalent user management server but so far have been unable to do so.
From a…

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Freenas and Active Directory
I'm trying to setup my Freenas server with Active Directory, it's connected fine and the following works:
[root@storage01] /# wbinfo -t
checking the trust secret for domain ISD via RPC calls succeeded
[root@storage01] /# wbinfo -g
*LIST OF…

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Windows cannot acces Samba share using Map network drive
I have a system running Debian. I installed Samba on it so I can access a share from Windows 7.
When I try to map a network drive in Windows I get an error: "Windows cannot access \...".
However, I can access the share in Explorer using the same…

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Debian 6 - Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 - Samba server with 32GB swap - how should i reuse it?
today i have the mission to tuning a Debian samba file server, previously i never ever touched it.
RAM = 16GB
SWAP = 32GB
first of i ran a parted -l and a free -h and i saw one 3TB hdd:
/dev/sda 3TB
/dev/sda1 1MB bios_grub
/dev/sda2 2968GB ext3 /…

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Samba, CIFS and Deleting Files
So I've got a Samba share located on server A. I have that share mounted to two other servers, B and C. The idea is that B and C need to write temporary files to a single location so that multiple background processing jobs (also running on B and…
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How to ask Samba to follow symlinks for user & password less guest account
I want to configure Linux Samba 4.0.9 for providing read-only access to directory content (symlinks to files from other locations) in user & password less way. Basically any LAN user should have access to content without any user/pass questions. I…

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Login script not running
I have a server running Debian Wheezy, and Samba 3 running the Domain Controller. The clients are Windows 7, and mostly work. One issue I'm having on one computer is that it will log in, and present the desktop, but without running the log on…

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Can I have a machine in a DNS subdomain, but Active Directory main domain?
I've just started virtualising some Linux servers, and want them to have DNS names like this:
name.vm.company.internal
Our DNS is hosted on Windows 2003 Active Directory, so most machines are currently named:
name.company.internal
These boxes are…

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CentOs 6.5 GFS2 DRBD SAMBA CTDB : g_lock_force_unlock: Could not store record: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
My SAMBA cluster is unreliable, I noticed that from Windows desktop (on some occasion works fine but it is not reliable), on Ubuntu I'm getting this error (same is keep repeating in the log):
[root@smb1 ~]# smbpasswd -a root
lib/dbwrap_ctdb.c:951…
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ubuntu samba not connecting from mac
I have an ubuntu 12.10 VM with samba v 3.6.6 installed:
Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-44-generic x86_64)
On my mac i can connect to the smb share no problems:
smb://www.tests.net
Finder then asks for a username and pword, then asks which share to…

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Use fail2ban for Samba
I'm looking for a way to use fail2ban to control/block samba logins on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS.
I already set up an jail.local. The samba part currently looks like this:
[samba]
enabled = true
port = 135,139,445,137,138
protocol = tcp,udp
I'm missing…

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