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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How is case sensitivity handled for SMB share names?
\\host.example.com\ShareName\Tail\Components
|______________| |_______| |_____________|
host share tail
I can find plenty of resources on the tail component of a UNC path, and I assume the host component follows DNS rules…
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How to determine if a SMB Client has established a Signed SMB communication from my Windows Server 2012?
Is there a way to find from my Windows 2012 Server if the client has established a signed communication ?
Net Session gives the basic details but does not say anything about signing.
C:\>net session \\a.b.c.d
User name Administrator
Computer …
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How to prevent TCP ZeroWindow on writing a large file to a Windows share?
I've been given access to a share on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 system (10.a.bbb.ccc) which is a file and printer server, and regularly large files get copied to that share. However, occasionally such a copy fails. When reproducing this issue using…
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SMBD daemon spikes at 100% cpu usage when Windows 8 clients connect
I have a server running Ubuntu 12.04 running as a Samba server. The file system is an XFS formatted virtual drive on an LVM pool of physical drives.
I recently upgraded our clients to Windows 8 and I've noticed that there's a 6-8 second delay for…
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Weird Issue on 2008/2008R2 Shares using SMB2
Having a very odd issue in which when connecting to shares from 2008 or 2008 R2 servers that are hosted by a 2008 or 2008 R2 server the files added to a folder will not always appear to update right away. However, this issue doesn't happen if the…
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How could I determine which SMB client/session has a specific file open on a Server 2008R2 Windows file server?
What I need is a way to associate a client name or IP address with an open file, so that I can cleanly close the file for maintenance. NET SESSION doesn't show the names of open files and NET FILE doesn't show the client which has the file open. I…
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2008R2 DC owning PDC FSMO role does not become Domain Master Browser
last Saturday we promoted a new virtual 2008R2 server as dc and transferred all FSMO roles to it. Today we spend all day chasing down a problem with the domain browser function.
First some background:
We have a WAN with about 30 sites/subnets. Most…
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PROPFIND requests from a Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/6.0.6002 user agent on Apache server where Samba is also running
Ok, here is the context. We've a server which is inside our network; on the server there is a Samba configured, providing access to a number of shares; there is also and Apache server providing other services (among them is also WebDav, but for svn…
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Load balancing a Windows File Share using HA-Proxy
After pulling my hair out over DFS I just had this weird and potentially dangerous idea come into my head whereby, just possibly, I might be able to use HA-Proxy to load balance a file share between servers.
I've done some remedial packet traces and…
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Mac OSX 10.6 leaves open files on Windows Server
We've got several Mac OS X 10.6 clients who connect to our Windows 2000 & 2003 File Servers - No Active Dir, just file shares.
I'm finding that the Mac clients keep lots of connections open on our server, even when they have no files open. My tests…
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Samba setup to request password reset on first time login
Is it possible to setup Samba to ask for password reset when the user first logs in without the need to setup a domain controller?
Would this work properly with Windows clients or with clients using Linux with file managers like Krusader or…
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Linux SMB to \\domainname ends up "tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME "
Issue:
From CentOS7 machine:
smbclient -L %domainname%.com --user=%username%
Result:
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME
This is especially when I try to connect to //domainname.com, which would end up being like //domainname.com/sysvol…
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Cannot view or map drives by host shortname
Why can I not view/use/map a drive from a machine using its short hostname if the short hostname is proven resolvable by DNS?
I have a machine (the client in this example) running Windows Server 2008r2 Standard.
I cannot view, use, or map network…
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Where is my ZFS SMB share?
We run this pair of OpenSolaris servers that provide file storage. They run active/passive and stay in sync via snapshot replication every minute or so. Originally, they both ran OpenIndiana, but since development for OI seems to be stagnating, we…
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should anonymous access to the IPC share be allowed on Windows 2008 r2
During an audit the question of anonymous access to the IPC$(null sessions) share was raised. The audit lists the following as being a risk on a Windows 2008r2 file server:
C:\>net use \\fileserver\ipc$ "" /user:""
The command completed…
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