Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Ubuntu and is also the default file server for Ubuntu.
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Which to use NFS or Samba?
I am setting up a box to be a file server at the house. It will mainly be used to share music, pictures, movies with other linux boxes on the network, and one OS X machine. From what I have read NFS ...
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Share between Ubuntu machines
I'm sure it might be a very easy way to do this, but I haven't found how...
I have two machines with Ubuntu 10.10 on the same network (just workgroup, no domain involved). On one of them I have shared ...
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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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Connecting to Windows 7 shares from 12.04
After upgrading my host to 12.04 I can no longer connect to Windows Shares in my AD (Active Directory) based network. I was able to do it previously using 11.10. I thought it might be an issue with ...
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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 a samba shared folder (Ubuntu x Ubuntu)
I have a server for development (Ubuntu 12.04). On that machine, I have a shared folder named "projects". I tried
sudo mount -t smbfs smb://192.168.2.28/projects/myProject /mnt/myProject
on my ...
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Files are read-only after copying over samba
I used to copy files from one system to another system via samba. How ever I am getting the file only in read only mode. What i am doing now is i used to change the file permission after transferring ...
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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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Share files and printer between two Ubuntu boxes
I have two Ubuntu boxes and want to share files and printer between them. I'm reading about Samba but I have a question: Is Samba only for sharing thing between Ubuntu and Windows? Another question: ...
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How do I navigate to a samba location I've mounted in Nautilus on the command line?
Please note: I am two weeks old in Linux. I have found a lot of answers to this question on the internet, tried many, but all failed one way or another. Therefore I dare to ask once again in the hope ...
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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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Cannot connect to Samba share from Nautilus
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to connect to my Samba shares which are on a DLink DNS323.
From Nautilus in "Places" -> "Network" I can easily navigate to the DND323 and see the available ...
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Can see samba shares but not access them
For the life of me I cannot figure this one out.
I have samba installed and set up on the ubuntu box and on the Win7 box I CAN SEE all the shares I created.
I created two users on ubuntu that map ...
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Why won't Samba let me delete a file
I'm not an expert at Linux--I'd say 6 on a scale of 1-10
I just set up Samba on my linux ubuntu server (no GUI, cli only). I created the smb account and connected from my mac and mounted my home ...
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What's the easiest way to mount Windows share as a local folder in home directory?
Via Gnome Nautilus I can easily mount Samba shares from my Ubuntu Server. However, these "mounts" are kinda of fake. Many applications I run do not recognize that Gnome has mounted these server ...
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Can't access Ubuntu's shared folders from Windows 7
In Ubuntu Maverick, I've shared some folders using the Nautilus "Sharing Options" GUI.
I can see them from Windows 7, but when I try to access them (from Windows) it asks for a username and ...
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Sharing between two Ubuntu 11.10 systems not working for me
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 on both of my PC's.
I wanted to access PC2's shared directory from PC1. So in PC2, from nautilus file manager, right-clicked on the directory that I want to share with the ...
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What is the difference between a Samba share and the Nautilus share method?
So, my server finally died (good old 10 year old machine, minimum). I was running Mandriva on it using samba to share some data areas for backups and storage (had added a SATA card and some 1TB ...
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ubuntu 13.04 any way to restore connect to windows share as a different user?
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 the file manager lost the ability to connect to windows shares as a specific user(from 'connect to server') from the file manager. I could be connected to z share as ...
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Authenticating samba shares with active directory users and groups
I am looking for instruction on how to configure my Ubuntu 10.04 box to allow samba shares access through Active Directory users and groups. I have joined the Ubuntu machine to my AD domain using ...
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Samba fails to install
I am running XBMC, which is built around Ubuntu 10.04. It does not come with samba pre-installed, and I need to share some media with a couple other boxes. I followed the Think Geek directions found ...
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How to enable user sharing per instructions?
I have this entry in .xsession-errors log
"Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned
error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory ...
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Is the copy speed from ext4 to NTFS the same as from NTFS to NTFS?
I've created a file sharing server with Ubuntu server and samba, the drive for sharing is on ext4, but all the users are on windows 7/XP
Would the copy speed be faster if the drive would be on NTFS?
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How do I access a mounted Windows share from the command line?
I use Places > Connect to Server... to connect to a Windows share in my work environment (requires Kerberos authentication). When I do so, I can access the Windows share via Nautilus, but I can't ...
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No access to Samba shares
I have three shared folders in my local home directory- that is to say, on my Ubuntu desktop's /home/me/. All were set up using "Sharing Options" in Nautilus' right-click menu. The standard "Music" ...
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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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Mounting Samba share whenever it's available, unmounting when it's not
I am trying setup permanent samba share mounts. That's not too hard using these instructions. But, I want them to
Automatically remount whenever I join the network where these shares are available.
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Simple way to consistently access a SMB mount?
Is there any simple GUI way to make an SMB share persistent? I don't quite remember the steps, but on Windows, once you've mapped a share to a drive, you're given the option to 'reconnect on boot' (or ...
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Tips for debugging Samba performance?
Samba gives me 24 MB/s read and 44 MB/s write, while ftp gives 97 and 112 MB/s under the same circumstances.
The documentation says that
Generally, you should find that Samba performs
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How can I share files over a Windows network?
I have a media computer which I recently reformatted to Ubuntu 10.04. I am probably just missing something obvious but I can't figure out how to share folders and files, so that I can browse to them ...
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Network Computers Not Showing up
Alright, 3 machines running, two using Ubuntu 11.10 and one on Mac OS X.
On the two Ubuntu machines, both have samba installed and configured on the same workgroup, "HOME".
On machine 1, I can see ...
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How do I create a wireless ad-hoc network?
Whenever i need to copy some files and couldnt find a pen drive, [ i dont have bluetooth enabled in my lap], I create a new ad hoc (wireless) network in windows and share the necessary files on the ...
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Why does Samba always time-out whilst copying a large file off a network share?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (natty), kernel 2.6.38-8-generic, GNOME 2.32.1.
EDIT: As of 3 April 2012 I'm now on kernel 2.6.38-13-generic (still same Ubuntu and GNOME). The problem still persists.
I ...
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Uploading or attaching files that located on a shared drive doesn't work?
I have this odd, quite minor, but annoying issue that I am quite perplexed about.
Whenever I try to upload a file via my browser(let's say attach a file to an email in GMail), I click 'Browse' button ...
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How to automount a gvfs file system on logon
I configured a remote folder in nautilus. I always need this remote folder, so I created a symbolic link to it in my home folder: ln -s ~/.gvfs/remote_folder ~/remote_folder.
Though, when I first ...
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How do I completely remove Samba?
How do I completely rip-out smb / samba from my Ubuntu 11.10 machine?
How do I, afterwards, reinstall it cleanly?
UPDATE: My goal is to rip out any functionality related to Windows SMB from my ...
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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 ...
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How do I connect to a server with thunar in Xubuntu?
In Ubuntu running Gnome 2 you were able to select "Connect to Server" from the Places menu and you would get a graphical connection to whatever server you connected to.
Example:
How can you do ...
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Nautilus wants a password when I try connecting to a public Windows share
There is a computer on my network running Windows 7 Professional with a bunch of shared folders and printers available on the default WORKGROUP domain. There is no password for any of these shares and ...
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How do I blacklist certain directories in Samba?
I am exporting a directory via Samba to my home theater PC. Unfortunately XBMC is also displaying some working directories that I happen to be sharing inside that directory.
I would like to find a ...
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Can you mount SMB shares in Kubuntu like in Ubuntu?
I have just installed Kubuntu, and I notice that Dolphin tries to access SMB shares using libsmbclient instead of mounting an SMB location like I am used to in Nautilus. Unfortunately, the performance ...
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Why am I unable to mount file shares between two ubuntu machines?
I have shared my Videos folder in the home directory of my netbook and am attempting to access it from the new laptop I just got. Samba is installed on both machines, as well as smbclient. File ...
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How to access a Windows shared drive/folder from Ubuntu?
Specifically, what are the login credentials I need to provide?
Details: The machine I want to access is running Windows 7, and I'm sure the folder sharing is working as other Windows machines can ...
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smbclient -M send message problem
I would like to send message to the network PC(Ubuntu also).
command on myself(to send message to me,just for test):
smbclient -M myName -b
error is:
message start: ERRSRV - ERRmsgoff (Not ...
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How to move multiple files over network from terminal
I am using this command
gvfs-move file smb://server/directory/file
to move files over a samba share I would like to transfer multiple files by piping the results of a gvfs-ls to the same command ...
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System hangs on shutdown if Windows network drive in fstab
I added a Windows network drive (accessed using WiFi) in my fstab about a month ago:
//Server/Location/foo/bar /media/myNetworkDrive/ cifs ...
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Network print to brother MFC-7420
I am trying to pint to a Brother MFC-7420 from my ubuntu 10.04 machine.
The brother is attached to a windows XP machine and is shared.
This is what I have tried:
System->Administration->Printing,
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How do I set up Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to serve as a samba Primary Domain Controller uses pam modules to authenticate against an LDAP server?
I'd like to have a Samba server that appears as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to a bunch of windows lab computers. But instead of having the users have accounts with passwords stored on this Samba ...
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How can I increase the maximum number of simultaneous users to log in to a server?
I use ubuntu server 10.04 on a fairly good machine, with 2.40 dual-core processor and 2GB RAM.
My users login with ssh or samba. I have setup LDAP with PAM to sync user accounts between unix and ...
