Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Ubuntu and is also the default file server for Ubuntu.
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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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Why can't I browse windows shares although I can connect to them?
In Nautilus I can connect to Windows shares using 'Connect to', but I can't browse to them in the network area. They don't show up. My Linux samba shares show up, but not the windows machines.
What's ...
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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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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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Weird dialog box says Error: success ..?
What can cause this strange error dialog to pop up? The message just says 'success'. I was trying to copy a file from my desktop to my laptop over smb protocol, and the file does seems to have ...
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Clone GIT from SAMBA network share
Has anybody successfully cloned GIT repository to Ubuntu from a SAMBA network share?
I have access over file manager and can ls over command line, but cannot clone
Also, in git cola, qgit and gitg I ...
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Can't see Windows shares from Ubuntu PC's when I boot a second Windows PC
I used the information on this page:
http://www.sitepoint.com/ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-file-sharing-with-samba/
down to and including the "configuring winbind" section.
IF I have the ...
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Cannot print from Java application on Samba printer, but can on network printer
I have strange problem with printing from Ubuntu, and cannot figure how to solve it.
Running some custom Java application on Ubuntu 12.04, and it have to print some of the content.
It can print ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Can not connect to ubuntu samba server using dolphin
SERVER INFO
Ubuntu 12.04 32bit on toshiba laptop connection ethernet
CLIENT INFO
Powerbook g4 powerpc dual booting mac osx 10.5.8 and Debian wheezy KDE
PROBLEM
I know that the server is working just ...
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ubuntu applications cannot access samba network
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed (I'm running KDE 4.8 instead of unity). Samba share via dolphin works absolutely fine. I have access to all my files on my windows PC.
However, when it comes to open ...
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Why I cannot see network shares on nautilus?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.
I'm not able to see my workgroup and network shares when clicking on Browse network in nautilus. This is very important for my work.
I can access Windows and Ubuntu folders ...
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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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Mac OSX Lion won't read shared drives other than Public
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 to run a box with a handful of hard drives and a logitech media server driving a squeezebox. I'm accessing with a Windows Vista laptop and a Macbook with OSX 10.7.5. Most of ...
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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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Accessing Share folder (Samba) on newly installed Harddisk
I am able to acccess my samba shares on my main harddisk just fine on all networked PC's. However when I installed a new harddisk and setup everything the same way as the old folders, when trying to ...
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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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Server drops all network connections from OTHER hosts during SAMBA file copy from Gigabit clients
I have a vanilla install of Ubuntu Server 12.10 running on an old P4 PC with 512MB RAM and a 10/100 NIC. Default samba config, with a simple share defined as follows:
[public]
comment = Ubuntu File ...
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samba gui not opening
Running 12.04 on 2 PCs both Dell and a compaq with XP. I want to config the system so one Dell is the server and the others clients, try to open the GUI and nothing after entering password. Have glade ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 ...
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Printing via samba: printer doesn't print, changed properties aren't saved
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm trying to connect to a network windows printer via samba in my university.
I've managed to define the printer and everything, even print a test page, however nothing ...
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AFP and SAMBA shares are confusing my MacOS X Lion
I've setup my file server running ubuntu 12.04 with AFP/Avahi and Samba shares. Simple configuration, nothing too complicated. I've given my AFP machine a different name than %h to avoid confusion ...
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How to mount private network shares on login?
I've read all the existing entries I could find on using pam_mount but none of them seem to work for me. I'm trying to automatically mount shares on my local NAS at user login time.
The usernames ...
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Slow gvfs Samba Performance
if I use/acces a Samba Share using Nautilus or manually using "gvfs-mount smb://SERVER-IP/Share" I get a poor Performance, only about 7 mb/s on my 100 Mbit Network.
If I access the same Share on ...
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Samba shares on Ubuntu don't report free space
I'm connecting to a DNS-323 network storage from my Ubuntu 12.04 Computer. The connection to the two shared drives from the NAS is working fine but there is no way I can look at the free space on each ...
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Windows 7 won't let me connect to my Ubuntu samba share
I set up samba on my 12.04 Ubuntu install. I shared a folder from my home directory.
When I go to my Windows 7 box, I can see the Ubuntu box on the network, but when I try to connect, I get a ...
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Samba showing no disk space when transferring files from Windows machine
I was able to transfer a few folders to the Ubuntu/Samba share. The copy failed and got a no free disk space error. The Samba share has 1% used of the 500GB I have available.
Any ideas why Samba ...
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How can I get samba users from the same group to edit each others files?
I'm setting up my first linux fileserver for Windows clients and am having some problems properly setting up the shares. I have a shared folder via Samba where multiple users (who are organized by ...
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Mount Windows Share in Domain setting on startup
Though I have been a network engineer for over 15 years and a casual "user" of Ubuntu desktop and server for a while, I am diving into the feasibility of Ubuntu desktops in the workplace. As such, I ...
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Ubuntu Samba server in a Windows domain
I have a problem setting up a Samba file server in a Windows domain.
We have a Windows domain (Windows Server 2008) and I would like to set up an Ubuntu server as NAS and webserver (egroupware). I ...
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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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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 ...
