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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Does Bonding mode 0 works on Cisco SG100 and achieve 2GB speed for NFS?
I am planing to buy a switcher to link 2 servers each with 2 NICs (Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection).
I read that "balance-rr is the only mode were one single TCP connection can actually reach 2 Gb/s" in Does linux balance-rr (bond…
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smb share takes forever to connect to from Mac OS X 10.7-8
Ive got a dozen users and half of them take forever to connect to the smb share coming from a windows server 2008 r 2 standard server. Some users instantly connect with no issue.
These Mac OS X workstations have been clean formatted to see if it…
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Determine whether OS X to Windows SMB traffic and password are encrypted
I connected to a Windows Server 2008 R2 shared folder from a Mac OS X Mountain Lion computer over the Internet using this command:
mount -t smbfs //user@server/path/to/share local_folder
Is traffic encrypted by default? What settings do I look at…
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Mounting NAS drive with cifs using credentials file through fstab does not work
I can mount the drive in the following way, no problem there:
mount -t cifs //nas/home /mnt/nas -o username=username,password=pass\!word,uid=1000,gid=100,rw,suid
However if I try to mount it via fstab I get the following error:
//nas/home /mnt/nas…
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NAS - Do i need to Run Samba?
i have a Welland Net share NAS enclosure and 80 seagate hard disk. we run a small office with 5 computers on the local area network and 1 computer who will access the data remotely, we want to share our client folders and database on the NAS.
Do i…
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Disable CentOS users from everything but samba use.
I have a storage server running some samba shares. I need to create multiple users for each individual working at my company, but I only want them to be able to access samba from the client machines. I do not want them to be able to log in locally…
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smbd has to be restarted on boot
For some reason, smbd never seems to start correctly when the server starts. Simply calling /etc/init.d/smbd restart works great, but is there a way that I can either fix the underlying issue or add /etc/init.d/smbd restart to a cron? I just can't…
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How to speed up SMB connection between a Mac client and Isilon storage server?
So we have a Isilon Storage Cluster, and both Windows and Mac Clients connecting to it. Windows (for obvious reasons) connects and performs extremely well using SMB.
OSX on the other hand, does not. Windows we see about 125MBps (essentially…
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Windows Server 2008 push and pull speeds different
We've run into a weird issue today when copying files from a Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) to a Windows 7 Prof. client. If I initiate the transfer from the Server 2008 box I'll get 80-100MB/sec which seems to be what I'm expecting.
As soon as I…
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Are there any MFPs with Scan-To-Folder for less than $1000?
The title pretty much asks the question: Every MFP with the ability to scan to a SMB share with an editable file name I'm finding is more than $1000. Do cheaper ones exist?
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remote file sharing via smb://
I'm currently sharing files using the smb protocol on a local network, and I'd like to share the files now through the web.
I have two laptops (windows and mac) that draw files from a windows xp machine.
I would like to access the files everywhere I…
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SMB Alias Lookup on Windows XP
Should Windows XP be able to do a SMB lookup on an Alias.
I have an XP machine that cannot find the files on \Alias but can find them on \host.
If I do a ping or nslookup it can resolve the Alias.
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Setup OpenVPN solution, how to configure it
I have a SMB client where I need to install a VPN solution. I have one CentOS server that has 3 network connections , one is an Internet connection that comes from a router. It has 10.x.x.x address (NATed by the router), the second connection is to…
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OS X 10.7, shell scripting to Windows Server 2003 shared folder
I have a remote WS2003 machine that I can remote into to manage an IIS server.
For convenience I also have the app root directly as a shared folder which I can mount in Finder on my OS X laptop.
What I want to do now is write a shell script which…
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Reinstall smb / samba
Is there a way to reinstall smb & samba as if it was a clean install?
I am having so much problems with accessing Windows Share directories on my Ubuntu 11.10 (with Gnome 3 Shell) that I want to try reinstalling this subsystem entirely.
I've tried…
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