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Questions tagged [server-message-block]

Server Message Block is a network file sharing protocol created by Microsoft. This is the protocol used for file and printer sharing on Windows networks.

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Are there any good intranet search engines?

I'm searching for a intranet search engine which is capable of spider our intranet websites and network shares like SMB, NFS and optionaly AFP. Ever better for us would be a search engine which is extendable via plugins like the Spotlight framework…
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Make a SAMBA file system visible to all users with mount_smbfs

We have a Macintosh OS10.6 server and a big storage system accessible via SMB. Right now we can mount partitions, but when we mount them they are only accessible to the user that did the mount. All other users get "Access Denied." It there any…
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Does enabling SMB2 on a NetApp filer require a cifs restart?

I would like to enable SMB2 on a FAS 2050 running Data ONTAP 7.3.2 as by default it is disabled. I have discovered that to enable SMB2 the following option must be set: options cifs.smb2.enable on Does this require a restart of cifs to take affect…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Shared folders are very slow when uploading files

I have a little problem, I have a server with Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition with the File Service installed, and a client with Windows 7 Pro. Everything works fine but the file transfert via SMB from the client to the server is VERY…
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Options to improve container volume mount's SMB metadata operations performance

Question Are there any ways to improve metadata operation performance between a Linux based container running under Azure App Service and a mounted volume hosted in Azure Files? Context I recently migrated a solution which had everything on one…
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Why does a MS GPO option break SMB shares that use a hosts file for the machine name?

We've set "Microsoft network server: Server SPN target name validation level" to "Required from client" on our test GPO. Our test systems have some custom machine aliases in their hosts files, but once the option is turned on we can no longer access…
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Setting up Samba in Docker

I am trying to set up a Samba server in Docker. I tried using dperson/samba image from docker hub at https://hub.docker.com/r/dperson/samba. I followed the instructions and tried to connect to it using smbclient to see if I could access the SMB…
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Disabling NetBIOS for Samba SMB2

I need to get a pcap for SMB2, but without using NetBIOS as a transport (Direct TCP connection). I did disable netbios on server and client. Both sides on Linux. [global] ... min protocol = SMB3 protocol = SMB3 disable netbios = yes When I…
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Why isn't SMB Direct working over RDMA?

In a Windows lab environment, I'm trying to test performance of SMB Direct using Mellanox RDMA adapters with global pause. I wanted to test first with Global Pause for simplicity before switching to PFC. I think I've set up everything correctly,…
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Azure files with Network File System

I have to run Moodle production servers in Azure. Need to keep userdata (moodledata folder) in a common location like NFS for better management and scalability. I tried Azure Files-SMB service (premium-SSD). The problem is Moodle website become too…
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msdos 6.22: troubleshoot net share

The short question is how to check that a networked DOS6 (MS-DOS 6.22) machine loads its network and its shared drives OK. Both from within that machine and from another modern laptop (OSX or linux or ... windows-10) within the same intranet. Here…
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Linux: rsync to mirror SMB mount to local disk is very slow

I try to mirror a share mounted via SMB to a local dir. The share is hosted on a Windows 2016 server on which I have no access nor can I install any tools. All I have therefore is an SMB share. The share contains around 350GB of data, mostly small…
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Windows file copy - intermediary

I can't seem to find an answer to this anywhere. If I want to copy a file from \\server1\ to \\server2\, is it faster to RDP to that machine and do the copy there? If I initiate the copy from my desktop, is the data traversing the network twice…
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Not Allow Download from Windows Server Network Share

I have a network share (SMB) on our file server (Windows 2012 R2) that will be holding sensitive data. I am trying to figure out how I can limit access to not allow anyone accessing the share to download the files/folders. Is this possible?
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SMB issue- Access denied

i have a windows server 2012 R2 for file sharing purpose, clients are using win 7 64 bit. network drives are mapped on profile. Issue: some user drives disconnect suddenly with the message of Access denied. although all the users assign rights on…
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