Questions tagged [samba]
Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Ubuntu and is also the default file server for Ubuntu.
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Samba share on Ubuntu server suddenly stopped showing content/files on Windows
I have 20 computers in my office network and all the computers run Windows 10 except one which is running Ubuntu. I have setup a samba share on that machine so that others can access the share drive ...
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Ubuntu Server-Premissions hell-Is there a way to make a demond see a dir configured in a way w/ perms which it is not or is there a other work around?
I have a personal server which I use for various things but one of the main things is for files and file sharing. There are services that required certain permissions for a directory however I want ...
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Samba connection GUI
I need to create a samba connection but I need my users to input their username and password by hand, so creating a connection using fstab is not possible.
I know you can do this by going to -> ...
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mounting cifs gives error 115 but can ping and smbclient connects
I have a SMB fileshare that used to connect to a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS workstation but something in the local network config has changed and now I get mount error(115): Operation now in progress error. ...
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File sharing across local network
After a little bit of research, I managed to get machine #1 to share two drives over my local net, apparently using samba. All good so far. Machine #1 is running Ubuntu 23.04.
Machine #2 is running ...
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What would cause spontaneous default network changes and how to fix smb access?
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop install with 4x physical network interfaces. One interface connects to a larger network with access to file shares etc and the others connect to smaller networks to ...
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How do I mount a guest Samba share on Ubuntu?
I have a public (guest enabled) Samba share running on my local network from my Xubuntu server. I can access this on my Xubuntu 22.04.02 linux client with Thunar using the path smb://hostname.local/...
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fstab error and parse error when sudo mount -a
I have made a network mount with password but get the error:
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 13 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 14 -- ignored
and here is my fstab with the ...
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Ubuntu SMB Printers (22.04)
Hope you can help me with issue that we facing with.
We have 2 servers 1 on premise and 2nd in azure.
1st on premise it's running on Ubuntu 18.04.6 (Linux 4.15.0)
2nd in Azure running Ubuntu 22.04 (...
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Unable to access network share from ubuntu 23.04
I have a network drive that I can not access from ubuntu 23.04. When I try to connect to it via new server connection it just sits there with the loading icon and never fails or connects. I can ...
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Not able to access samba share in Nautilus on Unbutu 22.04
I am running OpenMediaVault NAS version 6 on a Raspberry Pi and have a SMB/CIFS share that I can access from Nautilus on a Ubuntu 20.04 install and also on Android, but does not work in Nautilus on a ...
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automount remote machine directrory
i have 2 ubuntu servers 22.04
i installed samba server on one of them (give it samba name with ip 192.168.3.10) and on the other (called access with ip 192.168.3.11) i used it to let the user logging
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Samba not working: No route to host
I've been trying for hours to get a share through Samba and now I'm very desperate. I installed Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS just yesterday. Additionally FileMaker was installed. I think the problem is ...
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ERROR(<class 'samba.provision.ProvisioningError'>): Provision failed
[root@pubby samba-4.8.3]# samba-tool domain provision
Realm [LOCAL]: Sang.com
Domain [Sang]: Sang.com
Server Role (dc, member, standalone) [dc]:
DNS backend (SAMBA_INTERNAL, BIND9_FLATFILE, ...
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Samba file server access from windows [duplicate]
I have a Samba share folder in my Virtualbox Ubuntu server.
Is it possible to access that shared folder from Windows?
If yes, I can't connect to the shared folder in Windows how I debug for the ...
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Network share folder from Ubuntu 20.04 no longer appearing in Windows 10 file explorer
So yesterday, I managed to successfully set up and run Samba on my Ubuntu laptop so that I can easily access files on the external hard drive that I have connected to it from my Windows 10 desktop PC.
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How do I get write-access to Samba share from guest account without setting permissions to `g+w`?
I am using Samba (4.15.13-Ubuntu) running on Ubuntu 20.04 to make my home directory shareable so I can access it from my Windows laptop. I have the same username on Windows, but it only seems to ...
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How to connect to shared external drives on win11 machine
I have checked the referenced previous questions, but none seem to be my issue. I am using release 22.04, jammy-jellyfish.
I have a win11 machine with 8 external hard drives and 2 internal hard ...
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"Local Network Share" Option Missing
I'm new to Ubuntu and just installed 23.04 on a new rig. I am trying to set up local network file sharing between my Ubuntu machine and my Windows laptop such that I can save/move/delete files in the ...
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Clarification of SAMBA configuration basics
Please help me with some very basic concepts with SAMBA organization. I understand the logic for the need of setting up server and client on the respective computers for sending and receiving data and ...
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Ubuntu server network switch
I tried just a regular bridge, but the same issue no router setting access "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" and no samba share from my server. Then I try to setup netplan whit dhcp and static IP ...
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Can't mount/gave access/assign IP to my Iomega IX2 network server
ifconfig
enp6s4: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::5a35:c75c:b3fe:f4e1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether 00:e0:4a:0a:4a:45 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 mounting NAS SMB shares
I’m relatively new to Ubuntu as I always used Linux Mint.
I wanted to change to Ubuntu because I have bought a larger monitor and wanted to use Gsnap on Gnome as a tiling assistant.
I installed Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 Network File Sharing / Windows cannot access \\UBUNTU\Public
I have a clean installation of Ubuntu 23.04 that I'm trying to configure to share the Public folder with a computer running Windows 10 Pro. The Windows computer is able to access shared folders from ...
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"Last modified" timestamp corruption
On my DIY NAS (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, Samba Version 4.15.13-Ubuntu) working among other things as a file server for Windows clients I'm facing a rather weird issue.
The "last modified" ...
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You need permission to perform this action. Ubuntu 22.04 / Windows 10 / SMB
I mounted 2 hds and installed Samba to be able to access them from my Windows computer. When I access the network in Windows, on one of the hds (mounted in /media/Courses) I can create and delete ...
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mounted samba share saving files to local disk
My Ubuntu computer is reporting that the local disk is full. The computer is primarily used for homeassistant and frigate and I have a Windows file server mounted to Ubuntu to save security camera ...
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Unmet dependencies trying to install samba, Ubuntu 22.04-2
This is a one week old installation of Ubuntu 22.04.2. I have installed various programs successfully and want to share folders on the local network. When I go to this from Files it asks to install ...
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SAMBA/Windows Login Require to connect printer with explorer
I have cups working fine on a RHEL server. Printers are already added. I have installed and configured SAMBA on the same server. I have access to it with a windows 10 client through the explorer. I ...
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SMB mount share stopped working on a single client
I would need some advice on an Ubuntu 20.04.6 Desktop with cifs-utils that suddenly stopped mounting all of our company smb shares.
The machine is joined to our AD domain through sssd, krb5 and realmd ...
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Apt upgrade failure due to "python3-samba": Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Something is going wrong with the package "python3-samba".
As a result, I cannot proceed with any upgrade due to this package.
I have tried removing the aforementioned package but in vain.
I ...
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No access to specific folder for specific user
I created the following share via smb.conf:
[SEE-Samba Subfolder Username]
path = /home/see-admin/SEE-Samba/SEE-Shared/Staff/username
available = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
write list = ...
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nmbd error: Answer name differs from question name
On 3/8/23 my systems received an update for samba. As soon as the samba server restarted after the update, nmbd started spamming the syslog with hundreds of error messages a day, none of which had ...
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Trying to SAMBA share a folder always gives errors
I've been trying to figure out why this issue is occurring every single time. I've tried searching for solution for this issue but have come up with nought. Can you help me identify and fix the error:
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Cannot access folder via Samba
I set up a Samba server and added a first share to smb.conf:
[Staff]
path = /media/see-admin/Daten/Staff
available = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
writeable = no
The server and also ...
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Can't connect to network locations in Ubuntu 22.04
Experiencing a very annoying issue where I can't connect to network shares, smb or ssh nothing works. in Other Locations > Connect to Server mouse pointer is always spinning & connect button ...
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Samba shares don't work
Ubuntu 20:04LTS
It have being a very strange error with my samba shares, after an update yesterday.
First I can not sambashare a folder home/Downloads/TDL. Nautilus give an error (fig1)
Fist I can not ...
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How can I activate sharing on Xubuntu 22?
I recently installed Xubuntu 22 on an old iMac. Most things are working out well. However, there doesn't seem to be any way for me to share folders from my Xubuntu installation with any other ...
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Various network services inaccessible after Lubuntu update
This morning I accepted the prompt to update my Lubuntu 20.04.5 LTS machine. Following the update, a number of network services have become inaccessible from remote devices:
SMB (accessing shares ...
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Sharing Folder Error with Ubuntu and SAMBA [closed]
I have a home network working with an Ubuntu 16.04 server and Windows 10 clients. Actually, I share a folder with SAMBA and every thing works fine. In the file /etc/samba/smb.conf, I set it up like ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Networking share folder error
I have problems with other locations network folder mounting.
click this img(error)
I wanted to create a shared folder via cifs (Samba), so I just typed these codes, but the other shared networks that ...
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Realm join registers additional bridge IP in DNS
I was just joining an Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS machine with an existing Docker environment to our AD domain, but got a slightly odd result with the DNS registration.
When installing Docker, a bridge ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 smbd error
I have problems with other locations network folder mounting.
I wanted to create a shared folder via cifs (Samba), so I just typed these codes, but the other shared networks that were mounted ...
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Where smb client password saved?
So I forgot my other PC's windows password (I haven't used it for months), and I believe I've saved it on either nemo (or maybe nautilus or thunar) when both PC connected thru smb://10.x.x.x.
Where ...
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Why ubuntu server does not mount fstab samba share on boot?
Ciao,
I've a Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS.
I need to mount a samba share at boot time, and I've followed instructions on this site at sections Mount password protected network ...
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Can't connect Ubuntu to Ubuntu via Samba
Both laptops
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS x86_64
There is NO WINDOWS MACHINE involved.
I have Samba running on both
smbd version 4.15.13-Ubuntu started.
I turned off all security on the network to allow all ...
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samba error "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE" Ubuntu 22.04
I have a brand new Ubuntu 22.04 server and I am attempting to connect to it from Ubuntu 22.04 desktop using Nautilus. Nautilus continues to prompt for user name and password but does not connect.
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How to mount samba share on NAS at boot the same way it is mounted by "Files"?
Before you mark this as duplicate kindly read on.
I have a samba share on a NAS that is mounted only when I click on it in Files.
The share is mounted as
/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=...
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How to force Nautilus to use SMB3 on Ubuntu 22.04?
I have 1Gbs Ethernet but all Ubuntu 22.04 machines on it have speed 40MBs and fallback to SMB2. I verified network has 1Gbs with iperf, also Windows machines have normal 110MBs.
I also have 110MBs on ...
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How do I make a user-authenticated local network shared folder
On Ubuntu 22.04, it's simple enough to right click a folder, choose "Local Network Share" and select the required settings. Then on another Ubuntu computer on the same network I can see the ...
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