Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Ubuntu and is also the default file server for Ubuntu.
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How to add printer using SAMBA in ubuntu 13.04?
The option is not present anymore in system settings printer to add:
Windows Printer via SAMBA
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XP clients fail to print via CUPS after reboot of server
I have a HP LaserJet 4250 network printer, set up via cups on an Ubuntu 11.04 server (running as a samba PDC). Any time the server gets rebooted the Windows clients (running XP) can no longer print.
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Share guest LAMP VM folder (var/www) on Ubuntu host with separate Windows 8 machine
I've a samba server working well, permissions are fine. On host machine I've mounted the guest directory to host user home and can edit from there. I'd like to be able to edit same files from another ...
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Copying files from to shared computer or USB
I tried copying files from windows 7 laptop using samba service though network connection via LAN. after a point the copying simply stops, does not close the copy windows. no error messages are shown. ...
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after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 file sharing doesn't always work
I have a laptop and a desktop at home with the laptop connected via WiFi and the desktop over a cable. Both of them are running only Ubuntu 13.04 after upgrading from 12.10.
On Ubuntu 12.10 I had ...
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Upgraded to 13.04, mount.cifs returns “Invalid argument” -22 error
Just upgraded my Ubuntu Server to 13.04, and the existing and working fstab configuration for a cifs mount is failing with the generic -22 error (invalid argument):
12:38 PM wesley at wsrv cwd ~
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3 samba servers…2 can see each other, 1 can only see itself
This one has got me stumped. I stumbled upon this issue while I was trying to connect my wife's EEE PC Seashell series 1015PEM to our WD TV Live box through Samba. I successfully connected a Dell ...
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stop pam_mount from issueing forceuid and forcegid (samba)
I got a problem mounting a samba share with /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml.
Client OS: Ubuntu 12.10 x64
When I manually mount it access right information (user/group/other) are displayed correctly ...
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Permissions of mounted cifs share (Shared from FreeNAS)
I have a FreeNAS installation running under VirtualBox. When I try to mount one of my FreeNAS shares in Ubuntu 12.10, permissions on the share prevent me from entering the directory, listing or ...
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SAMBA: Why can't Windows write in Samba shares?
I've made a clean install of XBMCbuntu on an HTPC and then installed Gnome and Samba.
Now I can not write the XBMCbuntu default shares (movies, tv shows, pictures, etc.) using a Windows machine.
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Installing Samba on a Seperate Volume (Hard Disk)
I have managed to get my first Ubuntu Server (minimal) setup up and running on a 1GB internal USB header stick.
What I need to do now is to install the file server, but on a separate physical disk ...
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How can I share NTFS drive between Ubuntu PC
I am just installing Ubuntu 12.04 in my office in two PC. Every PC have some NTFS formated drive. So I want to share them between these two PCs. Please help me regent if possible.
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How to set up SAMBA / CUPS print server?
I am using 13.04 on an old laptop hooked up to a printer that I would like to access from my Windows 8 PC. I have been working on this for hours and I cannot seem to get the right configuration of ...
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Files aren't getting shared on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ( Samba Error )
When I am trying to share any folder ,
following error comes in the screen :
Samba's testparm returned error 1: Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max ...
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After a failure 13.04 distupgrade, mount is not working anymore with CIFS
I have a problem after doing a failure upgrading to the 13.04 distribution, after installing all packages the script was stopped before deleting all packages (due to a network interrupt).
After ...
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“windows printer via samba” does not work
I am an absolute beginner in Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 using Wubi from windows 7. It was a clean install.
Now I have upgraded to Windows 8. But the problem I am facing lies with either ...
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Accessing share without defining host
I've created multiple Samba shares using "net usershare" and they work perfectly. The only question is that the user connecting to the share has to use one of the following two formats to log in ...
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Group Share Quota Related Issue
Good Day,
I want to share my experience regarding setting up Group Share Quota for my Domain Users in Samba 4. But before that, here is the basic information I have with my current setup:
Server: ...
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VLC freezes when trying to play large files on networked windows share
I have a windows 7 machine with a shared drive that holds much of my media. I have another ubuntu (13.04) machine hooked to my television that I also use to play the movies. I've noticed that when I ...
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Noob Help Questions [closed]
hi guys i am very new to linux and over the last week have been testing out different distro's as i am building a new home server and my current one is running WHS 2011 i would like to try a linux ...
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ubuntu 13.04 any way to restore connect to windows share as a different user?
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 the file manager lost the ability to connect to windows shares as a specific user(from 'connect to server') from the file manager. I could be connected to z share as ...
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Cannot run samba interface after installing 13.04
I cannot get the samba interface to run after installing 13.04. I installed samba through the software center on one machine, and through terminal sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba ...
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SSH vs SMB vs NFS for GUI file transfer
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on many computers at my school (I am a teacher and the head tech dude). I use Clonezilla to massively clone desktops and laptops. I want to easily share the disk images ...
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How do I get my shared disk back on line in Ubuntu 13.04
I have a folder on my disk which I share over the LAN so my wife can do backups to it. It has worked since I can remember. Now I've updated to 13.04 and suddenly I no longer see it or even my computer ...
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I just upgraded to 13.04 and Samba isn't working. It is installed but will not open. Any help?
So I just upgraded to 13.04. I had to do a fresh install because I was having problems updating from 12.04, so I lost all of my previous settings and programs.
Now that 13.04 is up and running, I ...
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Cannot get Samba past firewall
I have two interfaces. One (eth0, 192.168.1.x) is my network, my internet connection. I pay for my own because of bandwidth issues. The other (eth1, 192.168.0.x) is the other occupants' LAN that I ...
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Ubuntu Samba user already logged in (ghost user)
Situation is following. I have two PCs. Server (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) and Client (Windows 7). I set up VPN with samba share (each user has it's own shared folder). Everything worked fine untill Client PC ...
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NTFS-3G permissions and inherit fstab flag
I'm trying to user a NTFS filesystem with full ACS's set just like windows.
Everything is working fine except the permissions set to created files.
Here is my environment:
fstab:
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samba share, how to auto mount unmounted ntfs shared folders
I have a working samba ntfs shared folders, but they have to be mounted first before I can open them from another computer.
Is there a way to auto mount them?
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My samba Share stopped working
I have three xubuntu boxes sharing files via Samba. Earlier tonight, the computers suddenly stopped seeing each other. I've restarted samba on all three boxes,to no avail. Is the next step going to ...
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How can I mount cifs shares in (k)ubuntu 13.04?
In (k)ubuntu 12.10, I could mount a cifs drive (from my Apple Airport Extreme) with
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=foobar,password=foobar,rw,hard,nosetuids,noperm //192.168.1.2/Drive ~/mnt/mount_point
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Dolphin file manager stops working after mounted samba server was turned off (unexpected action?)
I had mounted my samba share by editing file /etc/fstab
It works, I can use resources on remote system as well as on my hdd. However, if I turn off my samba server, dolphin (as I noticed) stops ...
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Ubuntu server - Make sure server can always boot and a hard drive is mounted before sharing with Samba
I have two 2-TB hard drives (not the boot/system drives) with a single partition in each, that I share with Samba. Mountpoints are in /mnt/drive01 and /mnt/drive02 .
These are also the path of two ...
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Samba - password access, list all shared directories
I'm using Ubuntu/Samba and I seek for an explanation how to:
put password protection access to computer, not on single directories
list all directories that I share, and not search them manually
I ...
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Mounting samba share with root priveleges 12.10
How to permanently mount samba share with root priveleges? I've used this FAQ but still getting the same error.
The point is i don't want to send credentials in plane text.
User credentials file:
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Configuring Samba with ACL
I've set up a Ubuntu File server(Shared folder) and its client PCs are Windows OS.
I followed the link Here to impose additional security access on the shared folder using ACL. It works fine except ...
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Samba: how can I access a share on a Virtualbox guest (in NAT mode)
My OS: Windows 8
Virtualbox guest: Ubuntu 12.10 server
I configured apache server on vbox guest and mapped http, https, ssh port successfully into ubuntu server. It works nice without any problem.
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HL2240 Printer over samba
I'm having a bit of trouble with a samba printer. I have the drivers installed, by following these instructions:
Printer Instructions
sudo apt-get remove --purge cups
sudo apt-get install cups
sudo ...
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Samba shares, using smb.conf or /var/lib/samba/usershare
Ok, so I caused my own problem by trying to be funny. And now I am very confused about how to fix it.
So here we go:
Our server has had 2 open shares since day one. only one of them offered windows ...
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Share printer to another computer (without CUPS)
I have a printer which has no drivers available for linux. There are only Windows drivers available from the vendor. The printer is Lexmark X2470.
So since I can't install the printer, nor use it ...
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Unable to access SSH anymore since i've installed Samba
Everything was working just fine. Then i've installed Samba to be able to use our ubuntu server to backup data from Windows computers on our network. Now i'm not able anymore to connect thru SSH, ...
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Why does Nautilus take so long to display content of folder on NFS share?
I have a file server running which servers NFS and SAMBA. Although I get much higher transfer rates with NFS, and also listing the content of a folder with ls in the terminal is fast, it takes ages to ...
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Redirecting a locally mounted Windows SMB share (CIFS) to a Windows Terminal Server session
I have been living in the linux world only 2 months so far and have hit a problem with the above mentioned task, now explained in more detail:
Our company has 2 Windows Terminal Servers to which the ...
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Can a printer user code be entered in the printer settings gui?
I managed to get my Ubuntu laptop to do wifi printing at the university in Australia where I study, I was told that only windows using only Internet Explorer can print (not even Mac) as they have a ...
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samba setup completely broken
I have been trying to configure samba for a while now.
as I had completely broken my setup, i followed the post on this site to completely reset samba to the defaults. (see How do I completely reset ...
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Implications of setting “usershare owner only = false” in smb.conf
I'm using Wubi and want to share a directory from the (Win8) host via Samba. When I try to do this using Nautilus I receive the following error:
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare ...
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Can't share my folders?
hi there I'd been looking for the solution but i hadnt found anyone that had the same issue. I'm trying to share a folder but everytime that I tried to do so Nautilus displays me an error. La «red ...
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VirtualBox client OS (using NAT) is able to access host's LAN - How come?
My network is somewhat simple: all PCs in my LAN (Ubuntu desktop, Win7 desktop, XP netbook) connected to a dlink home router, which is connected to ISP's cable modem. LAN has IP subnet 10.10.10.0/24, ...
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Crossover connection between two Ubuntu PCs using samba very slow
I got a Cat5e crossover cable to exchange files between my PC and Notebook real quick but the transfer rate is 1.3 MBs. Using USB 2.0 I'm soo much faster putting files on my external HDD. This can't ...
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Samba only works if logged in over ssh
I have a headless ubuntu server running samba. I have a windows 7 laptop, windows 8 desktop, a lubuntu desktop running xbmc, and a samsung note2 running android. Whenever any of these computers has a ...
