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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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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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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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problem sharing printer via samba in Ubuntu server 12.04
I have cannon ImageRunner 1133 I want to share it through samba with cups server installed on Ubuntu server 12.04
it works all fine I installed samba and cups server ubuntu and windows clients can ...
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Able to access shared files on Ubuntu from Windows only when I ping the IP from Ubuntu
I shared a folder from the Shared Options of the folder allowing guest access. If I try to open this folder (or my Ubuntu system) from my Win7 system using the IP or the hostname, I get an error. But ...
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How to access Samba shares in Lubuntu 12.10
Lubuntu uses PCmanFM as it's default file manager. I want to access my samba share with PCmanFM to upload and download files. I've already installed the "samba" and "cifs-utils" packages and thier ...
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Local file copy using SMB shares
I created two SMB shares for my local disks on my server: disk1 and disk2. Using my laptop I can access the shares. If I try to copy files between these two shares using my laptop the speed is very ...
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How does Nautilus mount Windows network drives?
When I browse my local network, I can access the windows drives of a Windows machine without any issue. Everything is visible, shared or not shared folders. I have full permissions.
I notice that ...
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Shared mounted folder on standart user can read-only files
I've shared a folder, then logged in to another user and mounted in to ~/Documents. User is Standard, has the group samba.
I have tried a lot of permissions with chown, chmod and so on. The user with ...
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Samba sharing from ubuntu to win7
I have installed and configured a SAMBA server. So far it works well until I try to log in. When the password box pops up from a win7 machine, I enter the details but it says "wrong details". The ...
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Why the difference between Samba sharing inside Home folder and outside (eg: mounted device)
With Samba, when I share inside my home folder, I only need to right click the folder I want to share (Let's assume it is on the Desktop) and select Sharing Options, then just select the options I ...
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When I use samba to share a cifs mounted drive all the subdirectories are missing the directory “bits”
I have a NAS drive mounted on a server (fstab):
//192.168.0.181/Videos /mnt/NAS_01 cifs iocharset=utf8,uid=65534,gid=65534,guest,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
If I go into the directory and ...
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How to mount a disk that supports Samba sharing (Using Disk Utility)
This might be a tricky question but here is the objective:
Manage to mount a disk/partition automatically without (or at least trying to avoid):
Editing any Samba configuration file
Editing the ...
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File Sharing With Ext4 Partition
I tried googling this problem but I haven't received a definitive answer.
This is my situation, I have a 3TB external hard drive connected to my server via esata. I plan on sharing this drive over a ...
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Unable to access any ubuntu shares from android/windows clients
I am running Ubuntu 11.04, and cant seem to access any of my shares. Here is the output from testparm-s :
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to ...
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How to setup complete file access and control on a network
I have a media server running ubuntu 12.04 and I want it setup so that any PC on the network (windows etc) has complete access to all files, folders etc with read, write, edit, copy to, copy from ...
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Mount my own samba share?
I would like to access my local data, which is exported as a samba share, as if I am a samba client. Basically, how do I correctly mount my own samba share? The following mount (device) parameters:
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Mounting Samba Shares at boot/login and using script
I have a Server running on desktop, since my aunt that lives with me is taking classes for MS office it is currently booting XP,
so i have setup sharing of all my drives so i can access my files
but ...
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Sharing SAMBA shares across subnets
I have Samba servers dotted around different regions all connected via site to site IPSEC VPN,
I can ssh into each one using their respective IP’S. I have main region, and sub regions. This issue is ...
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How do I share a folder on SAMBA?
I want to share my home folder with my Windows machine, but I have no idea how to share the folder.
I can't find any up-to-date guides on Google, so how can I share my home directory?
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Is there supposed to be a Windows Network folder in the file manager?
I pulled my hard drive out of my computer and started with a bootable usb version of Ubuntu, which I am using that at this point.
At first boot, I see that there is a Windows folder when browsing ...
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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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Windows users unable to access samba share of an external drive
It doesn't seem that many others have had this problem so I thought I'd ask here.
Have a server running Ubuntu with 1 internal and 1 external drive. Have a folder shared with samba on the internal ...
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Unable To Write To Samba Home Directories
So I have samba setup and running on my Ubuntu box. I've successfully logged in on my WinXP machine, and was able to browse my home directories but an unable to create files, folders, etc. No write ...
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Sharing files in LAN through Samba or SSH
I searched through many forums and I am able to share files between two Ubuntu machine and Windows machine but I have these problems which I can't solve.
any help will be thankful
When I share files ...
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Samba changes file ownership! How do I get rid of that problem?
I am running a Samba Server (Version 3.5.6). The file sharing is OK until I realize that Samba changes file ownership when another user (not the original owner) edit the file and saves it. This is ...
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Mounting windows share with non-root users? [closed]
I'm having some trouble mounting shares on 11.10. I've installed pyNeighborhood through which I can mount windows shares as root. I want to be able to mount them as non-root so that I can write to the ...
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Protecting samba shares with ubuntu 10.04
I'm using a linux distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 (Backtrack 5 R1).
I successfully managed to create a samba share that is read/write accessible to everyone in my network.
I want to protect this ...
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Does a Samba workgroup with spaces need quotes around it?
If my Windows workgroup is made of two words with a space in-between, does Samba's config file need quotes around the workgroup name, example: WORKGROUP = "MY WORKGROUP"
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How do I share a folder on a NTFS partition over the network?
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, and I want to share a folder on an automounted NTFS partition (/dev/sda4) over the network. The purpose of this network is to share files between computers, it contains mostly ...
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Do I need a [MyFiles] header for each path entry?
I want to share two folders on my Ubuntu box for my W7 machine to use. I typed [MyFiles] only once, then a separate block entry for each path. When I testparmed, only the last path was shown.
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Sharing folders between Ubuntu computers fails
I am attempting to share files between two computers running 11.10. I'm using the built-in samba sharing. When I try to mount the files on another computer it says "Failed to mount Windows share". I ...
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Connecting to Windows7 share gives mount error
Hi I am having trouble with Ubuntu 11.10 to the workgroup containing windows computers.
I am getting this message when I click on the workgroup I want to access from the Ubuntu Network interface:
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Why can't other users access my SAMBA share without force user = me?
I have a samba related problem. I have a successful samba server set up on my home server. Unfortunately only my account can access the shares when force user is not set to my account (server). I ...
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Samba doesn't work on 10.10
I have dual-boot laptop ASUS K42J (with Natty 11.04. and Maverick 10.10). Natty 11.04 was freshly installed, and then after couple months I had installed Maverick alongside (just for experiment).
I ...
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Unable to mount XP share: Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
I'm failing with mounting XP share, receiving message:
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mount error(110): Connection timed out
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
When I try to list ...
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How to make my Ubuntu show on a Windows Workgroup
It's been a while that i'm a owner of an ubuntu (10.10) laptop. In our office every one is using windows.and our workgroup is simply WORKGROUP. i've installed samba, and it's conf is so:
workgroup ...
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Sharing Guest Account Disabled
In Nautilus when trying to share a folder that is owned by me, i can not share it without a password (Guest Access) as seen on the image. I already installed the samba service that was needed. What ...
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Auto copy files when added to network share
I have a network share on my system to which our plotter scanner sends its scanned files. How can I write a script to automatically copy newly added files to another folder?
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Unable to open “Windows Network” to see other computers on LAN
I have my machine connected to our office LAN which has many other machines that use win XP, win 7 etc. Until a month or so ago, I was able to share files and folders with them, but now I can't even ...
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How to mount a samba share permanently?
How to mount a samba share permanently in ubuntu 10.10? Also i dont want to display the share icon in my desktop. How to acheive this task?
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How to create a shared folder using command line on a server
After following the tutorial here I ran into a problem. Here is what I did.
On my server I installed nfs-kernel-server and edited the /etc/exports file to include the folder I want to share:
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Sharing samba-folder with root access
I have a staging server in my network running Ubuntu server 10.10, being my main development area. As I need to access the files in the Apache root from other computers in the network, I have setup ...
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How to disable samba shared folder password prompt
I have shared a samba folder on ubuntu desktop. Is there a way to disable ubuntu shared folder password prompt when accessed from windows?.
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Hide .desktop files from shares in VirtualBox
I share my desktop with VirtualBox. It allows me to work on current files in a nice easy way. I have quite a few utility launchers on my desktop. It's only a dozen or so at peak time but it makes ...
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How do I share a folder with another Linux machine on the same home network?
I'm trying to share a folder on one Ubuntu machine with another Ubuntu machine on the same home network. When I right click on the folder and choose Sharing Options, it tells me I need to install ...
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How to mount FreeNAS network share persistently
I have a FreeNAS server in the house on which we keep our media. I would like to be able to automount this share in a persistent location when the machine is turned on so that the music players can ...
