Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Ubuntu and is also the default file server for Ubuntu.
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Nautilus copies files but not directories from samba server on OS X
I need to copy files from OS X on a Mac to Ubuntu on a PC. I enabled File Sharing on the Mac and selected the samba option. I was then able to connect to the samba server in Nautilus. Copying files ...
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How can I remap usernames when printing to a shared printer?
At work my group currently use self maintained network printers. We also run our own self contained Linux network for some members of the group. It all works beautifully. The management has decided ...
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How do I re-install Samba?
I recently followed a guide to configure Samba but I couldn't get it configured properly. After realizing that the guide was six years out of date I thought I should start again.
I reinstalled samba ...
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Transfer data from Windows Vista via Ethernet to Ubuntu 12.04
This is my first time using Ubuntu. I want to transfer my files (pictures, Music, Documents) from Windows Vista to Ubuntu via Ethernet. I understand that I have to configure the IP but how do you ...
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Why can't I browse network shares on 12.04?
This is driving me nuts. I recently did a fresh install of 12.04 on three computers (two laptops, one desktop). For a while, I was able to connect to my FreeNAS media server through Browse Network, ...
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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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HP 2410 printer shared on Winwows XP not visible on Ubuntu's network
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and HP 2410 printer shared on Windows XP.
Problem is that under Ubuntu are visible only network printers, but not printers shared on XP.
I installed HP Device Manager, and ...
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CIFS - Default security mechanism requested (Mounted Share)
The following message appear every time I reboot/boot my ubuntu 12.04.1
CIFS VFS: default security mechanism requested. The default security mechanism will be upgraded from nbtlm to ntlmv2 in ...
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prevent suspend while streaming over samba
Seems this is an open problem -- streaming over Samba apparently doesn't pause the idle timer on Ubuntu (12.10 Unity), so the machine will suspend after the usual 30 minutes despite the fact that I'm ...
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Where does Caja file manager mount SMB shares?
I'm running on Ubuntu 12.10 with Caja installed. For Nautilus, the mount point for shared file is ~/.gvfs, any idea where it's stored for Caja or other file managers?
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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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join ubuntu client to samba pcd with ldap authentication
I need to join a client to domain controller with ldap authentication. For now I have pcd and ldap. I populated the bd and the windows client can join to the domain with the users I have in ldap, but ...
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Samba installation failed on ubuntu 12.10
I was trying to install samba to access shared printer on windows pc connected via office network, following response came out from terminal. please guide me how to install Samba or any other ...
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Samba cannot access some network
My laptop is Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm trying to access shares on certain network. There are 3 networks, lets say it is NetworkA, NetworkB and NetworkC. I can access Network A and Network B just fine but I ...
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transferring files from PC to Ubuntu PC on same network
i recently installed a fresh version of ubuntu 12.04
i wanted to transfer my old files from my pc that is running windows, to my other pc which now has ubuntu installed on it.
They are both on the ...
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how to access samba shares via nat?
I have setup a virtual machine in Virtual Box and installed a Samba Server. I changed the guest operating system's NIC from Bridged to NAT for a reason that I can't remember. I then added a additional ...
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Samba Transfers Stop
I'm having this problem since I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and it's driving me insane.
I have a NAS (DNS-320) that is running Samba. When I try to transfer a folder that has many other files inside it's ...
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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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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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How to migrate all users to an new server
My file server which is running Linux Ubuntu 12.01, contains more than 30 users and its samba user accounts. Now I have an brand new machine, and want move all those user accounts from the old ...
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cifs mounted NAS drive not passing directory information
I have several NAS drives connected to my server, which are then set up as symbolic links and shared via samba - to allow all the NAS drives to look like 1 drive on the samba share. However, in all ...
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Why is my samba4 [homes] share not browsable?
For some reason, I can't see the home directory share that maps to each user's home directory, [homes]. I can directly map the network drive to it in windows or mount it on a Mac, but when trying to ...
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Samba Server Make Multiple User Permissions Profiles
I have a Samba file server running, and I was wondering how I could make multiple user accounts that have different permissions. For example, at the moment I have a user, smbusr, but when I ssh to the ...
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How to access a Windows share from Ubuntu?
In Ubuntu 12.04 and previous versions, I can easily install smbfs and running smb://server/share from Nautilus works!
But, in 12.10, I can't install smbfs. Trying to install it from the terminal, I ...
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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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Printer Sharing Issue [closed]
So I set up my printer on 12.10 to share via SAMBA. Windows 'sees' it, it will install it on windows (I have the printer driver installs but it asks for it in Windows default list.. ?), then I can ...
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how to find a samba share's gvfs path?
If Nautilus is used to drop a file on a samba share into an app, then the app will see:
"SMB://server/share/file"
How is the app supposed to detect real, working gvfs path of that file ?
different ...
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How to install Samba and Share directory and Printer
I am trying to get Samba working on Ubuntu to share a Directory and a Printer over the network to a Windows PC, only... when I install it I can't get the link for the GUI, and I can get no where with ...
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Can I make all unix users samba users?
I'm trying to set up a samba share for the first time. My guest share works fine, but I cannot seem to log in as any user. If I enter my unix username and password my mac window just shakes as if an ...
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Ubuntu shares not visible on the network
I've run into a strange thing. I just set up my brothers laptop with ubuntu 12.04. I installed samba and shared his Public folder in his /home by right click -> Share this folder. I put in the correct ...
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How to get sharing options to stick - ubuntu 12.04
I'm having a really hard time trying to get my sharing set up on my 12.04 system.
I've tried both desktop version and server - I'm a bit of a linux n00b, so I need a GUI, command line is beyond me ...
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Where did ~/.gvfs go on ubuntu 12.10?
where did ~/.gvfs go on ubuntu 12.10. How can I find the locaton of the mounted through samba folders?
I share a folder with a ubuntu 12.10 machine. I am trying to find the location of the mount ...
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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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Samba Shares Ubuntu 12.04 and Win 7 Home Network
I have managed to create a home network of sorts between my desktop with windows 7 and my laptop running Precise Pangolin using probably more than a dozen different tutorials I have read here and ...
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Mount the directory / HOME directory located on a remote Windows 2008 R2
I am currently working on the integration of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Linux on an Active Directory domain in Windows 2008 R2.
I have managed to integrate my Ubuntu 12.04 machine to AD 2008, my user ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 Samba Server timeout
I am a beginner with servers. I checked the error logs for Samba and it appears that Samba is timing out when I transfer large files. I can successfully add PDFs for instance to my file server. ...
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Client for windows shadow copy
A windows file server at works serves up files that can be reverted to previous snapshots. I think this is the windows shadow copy service. Googling reveals a lot of articles about how to serve such a ...
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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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Configure Autofs to access windows domain server
I want to configure autofs to access my windows domain server
say my server in win2003 and want to access e$
I am able to access it graphical way
But every time I restart the system I have to ...
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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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samba and AD integration - usermapping fails and only shows the numeric IDs and not usernames
I have successfully integrated AD + Samba + Winbind in my Ubuntu NAS box and all worked fine for 2 weeks. Suddenly today I couldn't get into the share and after logging in to the server, I found that ...
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mount remotely mybook live network drive
I have a mybook live western digital 1TB hard disk connected to fritzbox 7270 router in office. When I am in the office, I can mount this drive to ubuntu since I have added to the etc/fstab file:
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Samba smbtree No output; failed to retrieve share list
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 on two machines, one laptop & one desktop. Faced the same problem when I used 12.04.
When I try connecting to the other machine using 'Connect to Server', I give the correct ...
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Wine virtual drive set to network location?
I've currently got all of my music saved on a NAS server, and want to play it on my Ubuntu machine as well as Windows, which works fine using Linux music software.
The problem is I'm so obsessed ...
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How do I connect to an SMB share requiring a user name and password?
I have a samba share on my LAN that requires a username and password to obtain write access (otherwise it defaults to read-only).
I can't figure out where in the Unity desktop I can connect to the ...
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Sharing NTFS on start-up
After much digging around I've found a way to share my NTFS drives, but I don't know how to do it so it will still remain active after I restart the computer.
This is the method I currently use:
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I can't mount a NAS server with SAMBA from shell, but I can from Nautilus
I have a new Livebox 2 router, this router has a NAS server without password for any HD/USB drive connected.
I can connect from Nautilus to the IP: 192.168.1.1 or 'livebox' host.
But I can't mount ...
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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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Cannot access Windows Shares on Win-7 from Ubuntu 10.04 after Copied files from another Win-7
Hi I know Samba problems is all over the places. But I am through with searching none of the solution worked for me (Disable firewall, Install that lib, Config smb.conf and stuffs)
Actually the ...
