Server Message Block, network-protocol for sharing files and printers implemented by Windows, Samba and others
Questions tagged [smb]
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Mercurial: "hg push" to smb share does not work
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and Mercurial 3.7.3. Our repository is accessible only as an SMB share. I cloned the share to a folder in my home folder (I simplified the names a bit):
> hg clone "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=xyz.com,share=abc$/Repo"…

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jcifs.smb.SmbException: The system cannot find the file specified?
While running the below code i am getting the exception
jcifs.smb.SmbException: The system cannot find the file specified
Code:
public void m1(String b) throws IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method**strong text** stub
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Copy files to network path or drive using python on OSX
I have a similar question like the one asked here but I need it to work on OSX.
How to copy files to network path or drive using Python
So i want to save a file on a SMB network share. Can this be done?
Thanks!

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File transfer hurdles in .net using mono on linux to windows file share
I am writing a .Net application to transfer files between linux and windows. I use mono to achieve platform independence.
I used https://code.google.com/p/cifsclient/ as a reference(Thanks Jordi Martin). His awesome solution is similar to what I am…

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Reading file over network slow due to extra reads
I'm reading a file and I either read a row of data (1600 sequential reads of 17 bytes) or a column of data (1600 reads of 17 bytes separated by 1600*17=27,200 bytes). The file is either on a local drive or a remote drive. I do the reads 10 times…

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Android - Mount a Samba share in code
I'm looking for a way to mount Samaba shares programatically.
I am aware of this question which, if it works, would allow browsing a Samba share within my app, but I want the shares to be available to other apps once mounted.
I know ES File…

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smbmount not working on Ubuntu 12.10
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and I was trying to mount a folder to the Ubuntu system.
So I used:
sudo smbmount /path/to/my/folder -ouser=, dom=
but the smbmount was not found...
All I have now is cifs-utils.
The command…

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How do I use JCIFS with apache VFS to access an SMB URL?
I am trying to access a folder on my local computer using an smb URL.
my project is using the jars: commons-vfs2-2.0.jar and jcifs-1.3.17.jar (and all the other required jars).
The code in it's entirety is:
public static void main(String[] args)…

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Ruby read Samba share
I'm looking for a way to read from a samba share. I want to use it like the Dir class, for example open and read of directories. Is this possible in Ruby?

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How to avoid 12 seconds delay when disonnecting from share in Windows 7?
I'm making some utils that uses NetUseAdd and NetUseDel functions to connect/disconnect to share. In Windows 7 I noticed that between calling NetUseDel and real disconnnection passes nearly 12 seconds.
I made some investigations and found that net…

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How to connect to an SMB share and write to a file in Powershell without mounting?
I've gone through the documentation here. Oddly enough, I can't find anything mentioning how to simply connect to (not mount) an SMB share with PowerShell. I'm looking for the equivalent of this in Python:
with smbclient.open_file(args.share,…

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Start a SMB container using Docker for Windows
I have a Docker Volume used by several containers (Linux containers running on Windows). I would like to be able to access the Volume from the Windows machine through Windows Explorer, in the best case with a network drive, e.g.:
services:
smbd:
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problems using sharpcifs with dotnet core. Connecting to a windows share
I try to connect to a windows share from a other windows machine.
after a long search i found sharpcifsstd.dobes.jp but i cant get the examples to work.
I receive a SharpCifs.Smb.SmbException: 'Failed to connect, IOException: transport closed in…

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Easiest way to implement a SMB redirector for Windows?
I would like to implement a little tool that lets me do on Windows what I can already do easily on any other OS - specify a remote SMB server by both IP address and port. Natively, Windows will not do SMB over any ports other than 445 or 139 (its…

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symbolic links work when shared to Windows or Linux (smb), but broken when shared to Mac (afp or smb)
On a Mac, I have a shared folder, ~\Documents. There are two subfolders, Data and Data_2011, the former containing folders of files from the last several years, and the latter containing symbolic links to the folders in the Data folder that have…

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