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Questions tagged [server-message-block]

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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Max (practical) files per folder on a Windows file share?

I support an internal application that stores files on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 file share. Because of how it is currently configured to store files, one folder has ~116,000 files in it (another has ~65,000, and the other folders have less, but…
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SMB proxy: Connect to SMB server through SSH tunnel between two other hosts

I want localhost to access my company's SMB shares. These are located on a Win7 peer. This peer is running a virtual machine with Debian which itself is running an ssh daemon. I can easily create an ssh tunnel from localhost to the VM but couldn't…
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IRPStackSize and Accessing Windows 7 Shares from Windows XP clients

I received a new Windows 7 workstation (replacing an older Windows 7 workstation) and started running into errors accessing my file shares from Windows XP machines. I get various errors that seem to come and go (at some points it will work fine for…
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Strange STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED issue with SMB2 client and Freenas CIFS SHARE

I've recently started seeing some strange SMB2 Errors on Windows 10 PCs (all of them version 1903). The Fileserver is running FreeNAS-11.1-U7 (with ZFS Volumes) and CIFS Shares with Active Directory ACL. When I open some images from Adobe Bridge or…
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How to fix slow iSCSI speed (in comparison to SMB)?

I have a NAS which provides SMB and iSCSI targets, and a server which is directly connected via a 10 GbE link (no switch in between). I experience slow speeds with the iSCSI target in contrast to "high" (expected) speeds with a SMB "target". See the…
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smb with dfs on mac

I currently work a Mac client enviorment, where all users have macs, but they insist on running windows servers. they are currently running acronis file sync to avoid smb, but since they are going to create a new office with a new server, they…
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Why are WSUS shared folders shared out to entire network?

I set up a Server 2012 R2 instance as a WSUS server and went through initial set up. But now, from another computer on LAN, when I type explore to the server via UNC path I see Wsuscontent and WSUSTemp shared out to the whole network. The odd thing…
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Windows 10 AAD Azure ad domain joined & SMB share

I have a number of Windows 10 clients domain joined to azure ad, I still have a local Windows 2012 r2 server onsite with a number of shares i wish to map to from the windows 10 clients. Bu if I try accessing the UNC path from a client I get "you do…
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SMBv2 and Windows 7

After disabling SMBv1 through some Firewalls within my network, I'm encountering a problem between a nas and the windows 7 workstations. C:\Users\Username>net use * \\NAS.FQDN\SHARENAME System error 64 has occurred. The specified network name is no…
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Windows tries to access the IPC$ share before the provided one

I have a samba server where I have disabled access to the IPC$ share [1] for security reasons (users and shares enumeration, user info query, ...). I can access the data shares on this server without problem from any Unix based computer with…
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How do I make SMB faster on Windows?

My problem is the throughput of FFmpeg is severely limited by the speed of SMB performance. Using Wireshark I found out that FFmpeg writes are sent to my Synology SMB share in 500 byte packets with Windows 7. Running the same version of FFmpeg on…
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net use fails with system error 67 with FQDN

I search for help with a confusing error with Windows 7 mounting a network fileshare. The problem is that on machine A a mount with the FQDN fails (net use system error 67) while the same command with the IP address succeeds. On another machine…
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High CPU Load on Synology by smbd

I have a Synology DS213j which I access through a VPN via the build-in VPN Server (I use OpenVPN) using Windows Explorer. Copying files to my local hard drive is very slow in the range of only ~170 KB/s. This seems to be limited by the Synologys…
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Premature SMB/CIFS Session Close (System error 1312) with Password on SMBv2

In attempting to issue a "net use" to a NetApp share, I'm experiencing a very unique situation. A particular user is required to issue scans across a CIFS, however that user (which has full read/write access) receives a "System error 1312 has…
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Win7 loses connection to network shares after resume unless server specified using FQDN

My Win7 client has a connection to a Linux server and its shared folders. The problem occurs when the computer wakes up after a sleep and then one of the shared folders is not accessible. I receive the following message: Error code: 80070035, The…
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