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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Use terminal to access dir/file that's been installed via SMB?
I'm using Ubuntu on my computer. On my desktop, I see a folder that says 'web on 10.100.10.28'. When I try to overwrite a file, I get a good warning 'The file already exists in…
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Authing other users on fileshares
I have a file share (Windows, SMB, AD) that requires authentication to access. Accessing it manually in Windows Explorer (\\ip\share) will query me for user/pass. That is fine. The client computer accessing the server share is not in the same domain…
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Windows 7 + OSX 10.7 Server: all files created by Windows users have permissions -rwx------
Here's my setup: I have one Mac Mini Server running OSX 10.7 Server set up as my network's primary file server. (I just finished installing it yesterday afternoon.) It shares files to 10 or so computers running Windows 7. So far, I have:
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Protect subfolders in a public share
CentOS box with smb and afp. There is a a share that everyone has read/write access to, I want to prevent a couple folders within that share from being able deleted, but still allowing full read/write within them.From my reading of the chmod…
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Windows 2003 File Server Statistics
I have a Windows 2003 file server that is massively busy. Tens of millions of files come and go on the server every day. I'm looking for statistics to gather to help me size and configure the Windows 2008 R2 replacement for this machine. I have a…
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Hidden mounted drive
Is there a way to mount a network drive and keep it hidden or non-browsable..?
I want to mount a NAS drive to store our daily backups on, but I also want to limit access to this drive in some way so that existing files on it can't be browsed or…
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windows server 2008 r2 how to limit access to smb by ip range?
Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Only role installed is File Server -> File Server Resource Manager. Box is member of AD. I have local admin access and can put in a ticket with domain admin if need be.
I created an SMB share and granted permissions…
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Mac os snow leopard (10.6) can't connect to any smb fileshare. Connection Fails permission to access denied
Mac os snow leopard (10.6) can't connect to ANY smb (windows/linux) fileshares.
Other macs can connect just fine, so I know the problem is machine specific.
Go->Connect to server... select the volumes you want to mount step fails with:
"You do not…
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Cannot connect to remote SMB share from SBS 2003 server
I've got an SBS server with 2 NICs running ISA 2004. I can connect to remote shares via IP from workstations behind the ISA server just fine (e.g. \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\c$ where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is an IP on a remote network).
I cannot connect to remote…
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Connecting to Samba share over the internet
I have been trying to connect a Linux box to a remote Samba share, with no success. The Samba share is a NAS, mapped to be accessible from the Internet, and to be used as a secondary backup box.
The layout has been decided by my client.
The Samba…
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Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 - Copying files to SMB share results in access denied
I've setup the server. Opendirectory LDAP is running.
Created a group called ArchitectureOffice and i've got 4 accounts as members of that group.
Created a folder on the Server HD under Shared Items, called OFShared. Configured a SMB share point…
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Windows 2008 R2 NFS to ESXi 4.1 NFS Datastore
all. What I am asking is really complicated. So, I am not sure if it is even possible. It will be a two-parter.
Part One:
TLDR:
MYWIN2K8HOSTWITHNFS+AD -------(NFS)------> ESXI41HOST+AD
First, I have set up Services for NFS (a.k.a.…
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Mount Google AppEngine as Windows Drive
The plan is to use Google AppEngine as closed cloud datastore, not for content delivery, for our cloud based Windows Server 2003 machines.
How could Google AppEngine be mounted as a drive with a driveletter or as a linked directory for the Windows…
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SMB/CIFS connection, attempting to change the permissionswithin rhel5 to comply with the clients needs
I can get the mount to work and as written in /etc/fstab:
//pcsprdvhost.prod.tsh.mis.mckesson.com/sftphome /sftphome2 cifs …
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How can I stop SMB on Windows 7 null authenticating?
This is a nasty question to be asking but we're really desperate. By which I mean we have about four hours to fix this or dire consequences will follow.
We have a PC for card processing in our office running Windows 7, it's intended to be secure in…
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