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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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Negotiate SMB2/3 with a Windows client

After installing Win10 1803 recently I noticed I was no longer able to reach my samba shares on my linux machine. After some digging it turned out, that SMB1 is now disabled by default and my linux machine is apparently using that one as…
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konica bizhub c220 unable to scan to smb

Setup: We have office network setup on workgroup. There is a one Konica Minolta Bizhub C220. Problem: Unable to scan to PC(SMB) folders on couple computers, getting error 57 - Failed to connect to the server When it start: I have change a router, I…
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SMB share name changes case

There is some unexpected behaviour of Windows SMB shares. If a share is named all-uppercase, then it changes case depending on how you enter server name. Hence if there is an example share named "SHARE", then entering \\SERVER in Windows Explorer…
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Limiting SMB/CIFS speed in windows 10

I googled but cant find anything about this. We have a diskless environment where our 28 client boots from ISCSI based diskless program called ccboot. Now, the clients also need to access file share from a different win 2012 server using SMB…
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Server Message Block: Intermittent Long Delays

Consider a subnet of about 30 Windows workstations in a Windows domain and a Synology NAS. When browsing the mapped NAS file system as a network drive in Windows File Explorer, it usually works pretty nicely, but sometimes opening a folder hangs for…
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How to read fully deduplicated files over SMB on macOS?

I have a volume in Windows Server 2016 that is a target of the data deduplication role. It works very well ~60% savings rate, with many files appearing as zero bytes on the disk. The volume is shared over SMB and mounts fine on Mac, Windows and…
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Cent OS 6.8 smbv2

I'm running a linux system with CentOS 6.8 and I need to connect to a network share that only supports smbv2. Unfortunately, that doesn't work because currently only smbv1 is used. Is there any possibility to get smbv2 running? Maybe an upgrade of…
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Windows 10 connecting to external SMB share

I currently have a Synology NAS at my office that I wish to connect to remotely with SMB. This works perfectly fine on my MacBook, I use finder to connect with smb:\\\, but I cannot do the same on the Windows 10 machine. The…
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FreeNAS prevents writing to VIMs .swp file

Our developers recently updated to the latest version of vim and sense then when they edit files from the network share hosted on a FreeNAS server, they eventually cannot write the file, as the .swp file throws them a read only type of error. I…
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FreeNAS not correctly connecting to Active Directory - not seeing how to add Domain Accounts

It looks fine from SSH: [root@FREENAS1] ~# ping SERVER1 PING SERVER1.local.domain.com (192.168.2.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=0.265 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.365 ms ^C ---…
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SAMBA, CIFS, message signing, confusion

I've been going down a rabbit hole with SAMBA and CIFS. We have a server that was pentested, and we were pulled up for "SMB server signing not enforced" Fine, I thought, I'll just turn server signing on. Then I came up against the different dialects…
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For *nix server/Windows clients, what are the pros and cons of modern NFS v. Samba/SMB?

As the question says. There's a lot of threads around on NFS vs. Samba/SMB, but a lot of them are outdated or refer to old security models, or just give a one-line "use SMB with Windows". Both modern Windows clients and modern *nix file servers can…
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Difference between Level 1 Oplock and Filter Oplock

As I know, there are 4 types of Opportunistic Locks: Level 1, Level 2, Filter, and Batch. For me, Level 1, Level 2 and Batch Oplock are not so difficult to understand, but I still don't understand Filter Oplock, which case it is used and what are…
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If two VMs are on the same ESXi server, and they access each others files, is the file access optimized some how?

If you have two physical machines on a physical network, in order to share files, they have to traverse the network, and network equipment to get to each other. Even if you have two VMs on two separate ESXi's I would imagine they'd have to do this.…
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Replacement for Offline Files

We're trying to use IIS shared configuration on Server Core 2012 R2. It works perfectly with one exception which is that if the SMB share that stores the IIS config files goes offline IIS crashes and won't automatically recover even if the SMB…
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