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 to know when to properly use iSCSI, NFS or SMB?
I have a File Server running Windows Server 2012 R2. It has four 6TB Western Digital RED drives. I want to host my Hyper-V Machines, WSUS (Windows Server Update Service) content and WDS/MDT deploy ISO and files there for example.
I am presented with…
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User permissions/feature limitations of the native zfs smbshare service on linux
I'm using zfs on linux, using the sharesmb=on option to try out the native smb share feature instead of adding the zfs tank path to my smb.conf file.
The share has shown up on my windows machines, but my windows users can't write to it. I think I'm…
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Is there a way to connect a remote folder with local cache on OSX or Windows workstation?
A company with 50 graphic designers are working on the same file server. They are using mainly Indesign.
A typical project is a 60 pages indesign document with 1.5GB of linked files (something like 100 PSD, JPG, .ai). They continuously edit linked…
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Windows 2012 R2 disables SMB1
We have a Windows 2012 R2 server that acts as a file server.
Initially our copy machine worked with scanning to the file share. After an update, the scan to file share stopped working and eventually we found out it was because the copy machine (3…
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How to access shared folders on custom ports? (windows)
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what’s the syntax for Accessing smb/windows shares via alternative ports?
Imagine I have this samba serving on a port different from the default (445). How do windows clients access those files?
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SMB vs NFS authentication
Can anyone briefly describe me what is the biggest difference between SMB authentication and NFS v.3 authentication?
I think that in SMB it is based on user's login and password whereas in NFS it is based on host authentication.
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Can SMB3 Multipathing be weighted by policy?
Consider a configuration with two identical WS2012R2 servers. Both have quad-port network boards. Each has one NIC connected to a subnet shared by other servers and ultimately accessible to client machines. The remaining three ports on each server…
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LockFile succeeds but ReadFile fails
I know it sounds like a programming question but it's actually not. Bear with me please:
I have a customer who is experiencing a strange issue that I cannot explain: a program uses a file on a shared SMB drive (Windows 2008R2 server) open in shared…
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Delete files from command line using smb:// URL
I have a file with a list of smb:// URLs, like this one:
smb://my_samba_host/data/need_to_be_removed.tgz
smb://my_samba_another/data/need_to_be_removed2.tgz
I need a command line (something using xargs probably) that would allow me to remove all…
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Why does our Windows 7 Desktop keep continually making SMB requests to our SBS2003 server?
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How do I deal with a compromised server?
One of our desktop machines (Win 7 64 bit) has recently been complaining of slow down, particularly when accessing resources on a SBS2003 server (also a DC). One thing I looked into was…
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Windows networking performance (SMB/CIFS)
Are there registry settings or other settings available to tune Windows networking (SMB/CIFS) performance?
I'm trying to get maximum throughput for large file copy operations but any settings would be interesting.
So far:
TCP Settings
Adjust…
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Samba server not visible from Win network
Samba 3.5 on Centos 6.3
Synopsis: I set up Samba on my linux host, but none of my Win machines on the subnet can see the host name.
My host name (WOLTEST) does not show up in any of the Win network lists (net view, for example). So,…
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Why does windows (file) explorer try to connect to port 80 (http) instead just using smb?
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On an almost freshly installed pc I get a message along the lines of : "windows cannot find some-file-server-name. Check the spelling and try again"... when trying to access any fileshare.
Troubleshooting so far:
pinging works. Both by…
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Default file permissions when copying from Windows share to OS X
I have an issue that I haven't been able to find an answer for. I have a handful of Mac designers here that started using a program called Articulate to generate flash objects to embed on our website. Articulate will create a folder, and in that…
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what's the syntax for Accessing smb/windows shares via alternative ports?
when port forwarding on my router for port 139 to port 139 of my linux-smb based NAS is enabled running a simple \computername.dynamicipserviceX.com\sharename on windows works. However when set to any other port for example…
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