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how to configure samba file server for sharing between ubuntu pc's [duplicate]
I want to share one ubuntu desktop to different ubuntu desktop. I want to share files, folders and printer as well.
Please suggest me the right procedure to share above thing between ubuntu users.
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How can I access my ubuntu server remotely?
I have turned an old pc into an htpc/fileserver and have formatted a couple drives and have made them accessible and am currently able to connect them by typing in smb://10.0.x.xx and then it gives me ...
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NFS server very slow when mounted separate NFS drive goes offline
We have server A serving files to users on a network via samba.
It's running out of space, so we decided to mount an NFS share (server B) onto server A, under our previously shared samba share.
It ...
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Where is the samba share file origin in my ubuntu server
There are some files and directories shared from ubuntu server to the windows clients via samba share. When i type the ip of the server i can find some shares named admin, web, web1 and guest.I need ...
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How do I remove infected files in a Ubuntu server samba share?
I am running a Ubuntu Server with Windows XP Clients. I have shared files with XP clients via samba share. The problem is there is a huge number of viruses in the share. Is there any way to remove ...
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Samba+PowerBroker (aka LikeWise-Open) integration not working
Ubuntu: 12.04 x64
PBIS: Linux 2.4/2.6 kernel 64-bit DEB (from BeyondTrust website)
Samba: 3.6.3 (from Ubuntu repo)
We are having problems getting samba to integrate with PowerBroker (aka ...
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Samba Server Not Working
I have set up a server with Samba and added a bunch of folders I wanted to be shared in this server. Till a week ago the server was okay, but somehow, I don't know how, it is no longer working. Can ...
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Samba server not working on Xubuntu
So I have been trying to set up a samba server to share media over my LAN. I am using Xubuntu on my server machine and attempting to view shared folders on windows 8.
For simplicity I will only talk ...
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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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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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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: 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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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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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 ...
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Can anyone point me to a guide for installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on to a USB Thumb Drive?
I am currently looking to change my home NAS from FreeNAS to Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS.
I have had a look but all the guides I can find are about making a live USB not a USB with the Full install on it.
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Cannot get correct privileges using Samba on NFS mounted partition
I have read/scanned for Samba/NFS problems and answers on the forum, which were quite interesting, many thanks for those :) Setting up NFS can be quite a pain in the ... but getting a warning before ...
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Ubuntu Server does not appear on network by NetBIOS name until 2nd reboot?
Currently having a strange issue whereby my Ubuntu LTS 10.04 Server does not appear on the network on first boot after being shut down. I am able to connect to the server using the assigned IP, but ...
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Ubuntu LTS as a fileserver with Samba4 PDC [closed]
I am a die hard Debian fan when it comes to servers, however, the 5 year LTS support and the ability to install fresh packages such as samba4 on a server environment sounds very tempting. How Reliable ...
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Directory Permissions / Create Mask (Samba) (Ubuntu Server OS Directorys)
I want to understand the permissions a bit more! So I have a few questions:
Does this change the directory's permission?
sudo chmod -R 0777 Directory
And is there a list for the "create mask" and ...
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How to share printer from Ubuntu server using Samba? [duplicate]
I want to share my print from Ubuntu server using Samba to LAN computers.
How can I config smb.conf file to do that?
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Samba, can linux group permissions be determined based on user's workgroup
Running Samba on Ubuntu Server.
I have a share that is accessible to anyone on the network.
The shared directory is set to 775.
I want Windows users that are joined to a particular workgroup to get ...
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Samba set up on Ubuntu Server for sharing with Windows 7 and XBMC on Raspberry w/ OpenElec
I spent over 8 hours trying set this up with no luck so I tore everything down and I'm starting from scratch.
Here's what I've got.
Fresh un-touched install of Ubuntu-server on a dedicated Dell. I ...
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Need help with samba and XBMC
I have honestly spent at least 6 to 8 hours trying to get this to work. Here's what I've got.
Ubuntu-server file server
Rasberry Pi with Xbian
Several Windows 7 Machines
I've set up a samba share ...
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Setting up an anonymous public Samba Share to be accessed via Windows 7 and XBMC
So I should start by saying that I did this successfully less than a week ago and I had no trouble but I have since reformatted and reconfigured my server and now I'm having the hardest time ...
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Print file was not accepted
I have installed and configured cups and samba on Ubuntu 12.04 server for printing but when my windows clients send print job it stops in print queue and says that "print file was not accepted" any ...
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Samba - Network transfers from one share to another… local or LAN based?
I have Samba running on my server, which is Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have Ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition on my desktop. If I connect to a share on my server and I want to move files from one directory to ...
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How to build an intranet site ( from Samba shares)?
In the near future I will migrate my old Ubuntu box to a new server running Ubuntu 12.04 Server. On the old server we currently have some files shared with Samba and want to move them to the new ...
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Able to see Samba Shares but can't access them
I have set up Samba, and am able to see my server 'Fam-Server' but unable to access it.
I am not very knowledgeable about Ubuntu so, if possible, explain in layman's terms. I am following this guide ...
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Samba doesn't work upon boot until restart of service
I've installed a Samba server using Ubuntu Server as the OS. When the computer starts, smbd and nmbd both start correctly. However, if I go to a client and type:
$ smbclient -L feynman
I get:
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How do I configure a CUPS/Samba printer server and share my printer over the LAN?
On my Ubuntu 12.04.1 server I've installed CUPS and Samba. My printer is a HP Color Laserjet 1600 (connected using USB) and it's plugged in, powered on.
Samba file sharing works very well, however ...
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Cannot copy to Samba Share ubuntu
I could use some help. I have no Idea what is wrong:
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Server with Samba set up.
I have an Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop, an Ubuntu 12.10 Laptop and a Windows 8 Surface Tablet.
A) The ...
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Adding additional users to Ubuntu server and configuring Samba
I have installed Ubuntu Server 12.10 and during the install created a user for myself ben, I now wish to add a second user bill.
I have an external drive that I have mounted to /media/storage and ...
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Set up Ubuntu Server 12.04 for my office
As I have great interest in Linux, I suggested my GM to update my office server to Ubuntu. He agreed to buy a new server (Hardware) after explaining him the good things about Linux & bad things ...
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Set umask, set permissions, and set ACL, but SAMBA isn't using those?
I'm running on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have a folder called Music and I want the default folder permissions to be 775 and the default file to then be 664.
I set the default permissions on the Music ...
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How to setup Samba shares to only be accessed by certain users?
I have a RAID10 array mounted on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I have created a few folders within the mount point and want the following functionality.
There will be 4 users, 3 of them are windows users: ...
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Having problems getting Samba4 and Bind9 working together because of apparmor
So I've been following the Samba4 HOWTO, which has gone reasonably well. The issue I'm having is I can't get BIND9 to restart when the samba configuration is included in /etc/bind/named.conf.local:
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Not able to cd into samba location (in a windows share location)
I am not able to cd into the samba like I would normally do:
cd smb://server/folder
It says: "bash: cd: smb/..." No such file or directory.
But if in nautilus I go to the folder and right click ...
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How to make samba to ask password on every access?
We have configured samba with password protected share folders. The problem what we are facing is, multiple users were allowed to use the same system. For example if the user A uses the system S1 for ...
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why samba share files are not able to access by some user for some time?
I'm running samba on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, I've some folders on samba share and created some user to access it, but suddenly some of the user are not able to access it for a certain time only.
For ...
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Samba and NFS conflicts?
I'm using NFS server for quite some time now, and never needed a samba share. But now I'll need to connect one Windows PC to a network, and I should use samba share on the same server.
I'd like to ...
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How do I restrict access to a directory for a specific user through samba? [closed]
I have got a sub directory of a shared directory that I use Samba with and have set it to be accessible by only one user:
$ cd /mnt/SomeSambaShare
$ ls -lad SomeDir
drwx--S--- 23 SomeUser SomeGroup ...
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Setup LAN connection with Windows Guest
I want to setup a samba server on My Ubuntu host for My Windows Guest in Virtual Box.
The Question is : How can I achieve this or Is it possible?
Note:
I am not trying to use the shared folder ...
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Unable to connect to Samba share folders - desperation ahead
today I set up a Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS on our computer @work, /home was requested to be encrypted. I installed Samba and configured it according to several tutorials on the net - and I'm completely ...
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Access samba by host name
I have set up Samba on Ubuntu Server. Everything works fine, but I can access the dir only by providing ip address: smb://192.168.1.2/public but not the host name smb://myhost/public.
user@host$: cat ...
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Inaccessible Samba share with vscan-clamav
I have set up Samba with vscan-clamav and everything seems to be configured properly. However, when I try to access a Samba share from Windows I get the following error.
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Correct way to downgrade Samba package
I am running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS and I have installed and configured Samba 3.4.7 from the repository.
What is the correct way to completely and cleanly uninstall this version so that I can ...
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How do I use samba in Ubuntu Server?
I have Ubuntu Server running in virtualbox to which a directory is shared. I need to access this directory, probably even mount it, so that it's easily accessible for me.
When I had Ubuntu Desktop ...
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Why access is denied to Windows users when saving files in a dir shared with Samba? [closed]
I installed Ubuntu Server 11.10 + Samba
I'm using Webmin to share folders in samba and give permission to users.
In windows xp I can log to Samba and open the shared folder but when
I save a file it ...
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Can I use Ubuntu as a file server? [duplicate]
Can I use an Ubuntu desktop system as a file server or is Ubuntu Server better suited for that, and how about the permissions per folder and file?
Sorry but this is my first time to use Ubuntu. I'm ...
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Migrate windows 7 network drive to Ubuntu 11.10 for use as a file server
On my network (7 computers with windows 7 Pro) one of the computers has a partitioned HDD and sharing that partition as a network drive for all other users to access.
All other computers have a that ...
