Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Ubuntu and is also the default file server for Ubuntu.
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Change Samba password from Windows client
I set up a Samba server on Ubuntu 12.04 in a network with five clients running Windows 7. We're not using a domain, just a workgroup. Everything is working fine.
Is there a way users can change their ...
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(s)mplayer with smb sometimes hangs, can't be killed, only reboot works
I'm using a raspberry pi as a NAS, serving video over SMB (sshfs made it skip too much, NFS I never got working). I prefer to watch movies with smplayer, from my Xubuntu laptop (opening the smb share ...
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unmet dependencies samba [duplicate]
seems to be a pretty common problem, and I've followed the guides in order to at least do updates around the problem, but before I do any more blind guessing, I'm asking the community for reasons (if ...
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Samba share shows up twice in nautilus
I'm using Samba to connect from my ubuntu thinkpad to my macbook. In nautilus file manager i get my macbook twice in list:
smb://hostname and
smb://hostname.local
How do i get rid of the first ...
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Samba CATIA filename mapping
I'm running Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 LTS as an ActiveDirectory connected mail server using dovecot and postfix. All works fine on this part.
Now we want to export the mail storage for backup purposes. I ...
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Samba configuration for the home network
I installed a new wi-fi adapter to turn my server into an access point and throw my old dlink dir-100 out. Samba had been working fine before the upgrade.
I failed to connect my win7-machine and ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 will not connect to share network drive
I have an Ubuntu PC used as a file server running 12.10 64bit. I am able to connect to it using Linux Mint, Windows7 and Windows 8, but unable to connect using Ubuntu 13.04.
I have tried creating a ...
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How to share folders with samba
I am sharing one ubuntu pc's folder with another ubuntu, how it is possible with samba. I have installed samba but i didn't understand how to create.
Please help me and tell me the procedure of ...
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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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I want to share my “/” in samba. How to make it editable in windows networking?
I just can make it readable, don't know how to make it writeable
[root$]
path = /
create mask = 0755
valid user = myname
browsable = yes
P.S. what's the create mask ? and I'm using ubuntu server ...
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Domain Controller in Ubuntu [closed]
I have a network of around 10 computers and want to make a ubuntu 12.04 as its domain controller. I have gone through the how to's but Im confused do I have to configure openldap with samba 4 or just ...
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Connecting to samba share works with smbclient, but doesn't work with Windows 7
I tried to share the directory /home/me/music with Samba. The output of testparm on my server is as follows (I think this is Ubuntu's default configuration, except for the [share] section):
[global]
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How to turn on Network Discovery and Share between computers with Samba
I have an Ubuntu server.
Accessing the server from Windows clients works fine.
But the server is not listed among the available PCs on Windows client's Network overview.
For windows machines it ...
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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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“Failed to retrieve share list from server” error when browsing a share with Nautilus
A bit before upgrading from 10.04 to 11.10, my Ubuntu desktop stopped allowing me to access my Windows share directories. I figured I'd upgrade to 11.10 and the problem would get fixed but no.
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cannot print PDF on shared printer from windows
I have a xerox phaser 3117 installed on usb on Ubuntu 12.04 and shared in network. I need this printer to be able to print from my laptop wich is Windows 7. I've managed to install it. It prints .doc ...
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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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How would I use Deja Dup on a password protected SMB share?
How would I use Deja Dup to backup to a password protected SMB (on a samba server) share?
Note: not a duplicate, I put a bounty on my previous question, and nobody answered it after a month.
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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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How to get r/w permission for a directory for a particular user?
In my ubuntu server a directory named "softwares" is shared via samba for windows clients. The directory has only read permission. I am the system admin working on the ubuntu server. I am also not ...
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Why does ubuntu 12.04 LTS provide samba4 alpha?
I was surprised to see an alpha package in an LTS release. Why put such an alpha package in an LTS release, no matter how stable it can be? It can be misleading for careless people who didn' t check ...
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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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rsync creating 0 byte files on cifs mounted drive
Hi I have been using rsync successfully to backup files from my external drive to a cifs mounted shared drive since Ubuntu 10.04
Now with 13.04 I am getting a strage behavior with the following ...
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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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Samba is not working on Ubuntu 13.04?
I tried installing samba from Ubuntu Software Centre and from command line after installing .
When I tried opening it is now showing in the application launcher or now working through command line.
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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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Cannot auto mount NAS running samba on 12.04
I have tried to auto mount my NAS running samba with the following modifications to my fstab file without any luck:
//10.0.1.4/NAS /home/wayne/NAS smbfs rw,username=,password=,uid=1000 0 0
The ...
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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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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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Cannot access Samba share from windows 7 using hostname
I've been trying for days to get this working, and everywhere I look online it seems no one has a definitive answer, so here is the run down:
I have an external drive attached to my ubuntu 12.04 ...
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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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Map Ubuntu drive to Windows machine
So there is plenty of answers to the opposite question but I need to be able to access and modify my files on my Ubuntu machine from my Windows 7 machine.
What have I tried already?
It looks like I ...
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Unmounted cifs still work. Rmdir returns “Device or resource busy”
I've mounted a network folder in the Mysql data folder using:
mount -v -t cifs //192.168.1.xx/path/to/folder/DATA -o username=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxx,file_mode=0777 /mnt/storageHDD/MySQL/data/netMNT
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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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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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Storage server with NTFS and Linux on old machine
We have several old computers at home, and many IDE HDD drives. I would like to make a "storage server" from one. SO I want to use its storage as a shared folder. The other computers are Windows 7 / ...
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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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unknown file system error in fstab
Anyone have an idea why a cifs mounted share suddenly doesn't work in fstab? I can mount it from the command line, but mount -a gives "unknown file system '-o'. I had a bit of trouble getting it to ...
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stop PAM mount from issuing “forceuid” and “forcegid” options when mounting a samba share
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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win8 dos not show ubuntu machine in networking
I have a ubuntu machine running several samba shares. my windows 7 pcs show this machine in file explorer under networking. when I click on it I can see my shares and access them. However my windows ...
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Auto-mount and share an entire fat32 drive (12.04 LTS)
I was able to do this before by simply going to properties and setting up the sharing options. When my installation borked and I went to re-configure the share, I checked the share box, then "allow ...
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“Failed to mount Windows share” error in Samba
This is the situation. There are 3 machines in the office. The Operating systems on them are respectively,
Linux mint
Ubuntu 12.04
Windows Vista
The Ubuntu (#2) machine is supposed to be the ...
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Samba Share - Public Share using guest account
I have a functioning samba folder share using user security. I have setup the workgroup to be "workgroup" and all is working as expected.
I would like to sync my music folder between my PC and my ...
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Samba serving a Windows Share
OK Here it is. I have a Windows machine which hosts an Ubuntu Server virtual Client. The Client is running Samba. I can mount a folder in /etc/fstab and can browse and edit the files in Linux. I NEED ...
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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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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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Can't access files on mounted shared folder from windows
I have access to a shared folder from windows to get some images for my webpage. I can mount it using the next command:
sudo mount -t cifs //win-server/folder -o username=myuser,password=mypass ...
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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 ...
