Make a resource, such as files or printers, available over a network.
Questions tagged [share]
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How do I share a Git repository with multiple users on a machine?
I have a Git repository on a staging server which multiple developers need to be able to pull to. git-init seems to have a flag very close to what I'm looking for: --shared, except I'd like multiple people to pull to that repository, as well. The…
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Andrey Fedorov
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Mount Remote CIFS/SMB Share as a Folder not a Drive Letter
Is there any way to mount a remote CIFS/SMB/SAMBA share as a folder/directory and not as a drive letter. For example, I want this map:
\\Server\ShareName -> C:\Folder\ShareName
Instead of the usual map like this:
\\Server\ShareName -> Z:\
The…
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Anagoge
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Windows7 - “The specified network password is not correct.” when the password is in fact correct
I have a samba server setup for some time now. It is a Hardware NAS - which unfortunately does not provide access to the Samba logs. (the exact model of the NAS is called Addonics NAS Adapter )
I also have a Windows Vista and a Windows XP machine -…
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Win7 Home User
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Share /home between datacenters
I have two servers, placed at datacenters in holland and france. Both are running Debian Wheezy. I need to share /home between them, with good performance. There are 300-something users on the servers, around 30 of them should be able to have active…
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user3850506
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Best Pratices for a Network File Share?
So we have a file share that was started 10 years or so ago and it started off with the best intentions. But now it's gotten bloated, there's files in there that nobody know who put them there, it's hard to find information, ect ect. You probably…
Chris
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Can't access windows share when in security group assigned to share
I'm a bit stumpped on this one.
I created a security group in AD called "special data users" and add myself to it.
I then created a share on a server and give that AD security group full access to the share.
If i try to access the share I cannot and…
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Alan Barber
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finding ldd search path
How can I find the search path of ldd? Assume ldd returns
[mahmood@dhcppc2 bin]$ ldd /home/mahmood/amd64-linux/lib/scsi-bus.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc27c7000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ffb13a25000)
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mahmood
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How to remove a Windows share when the folder does not exist anymore?
I have some shared folders in the list in 'Computer Management' that point to folders that dont exist anymore. But Windows wont let me remove them, "The system cannot find the path specified", maybe a net * command through the console could solve…
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Maestro
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How do I reconnect to a UNC share using different credentials
I connected to my NAS using windows explorer, by entering \\DS412 in windows explorer. It prompted me for a username and password. I entered them and then the DS412 showed up under Network in Explorer. Worked fine.
The share was listed by NET USE…
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Klas Mellbourn
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Why do "net use" and windows "map network drive" share have a drastic speed difference?
Why, when I copy a file (windows explorer copy, paste), am I getting ~100KB/s transfer rate from a drive mapped using the "net use" command in the command prompt and between 25-50MB/s transfer rate when I map the drive using Windows explorer? What…
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JNadal
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50 workstations, 1 .bat file on a network server, will it work?
I have a .bat file to perform maintenance on machines. I put the .bat file on a network attached server for all workstations to access it.
If I were to use the windows scheduler to make that .bat file run at 12:00:00.000 on say... 50 workstations,…
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Anthony Miller
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Allow access to Linux Console
Suppose one is running an SSH session into a GNU/Linux box of a client and he asks you to see "what you are doing". How can you allow this other party to see what's going on in your session?
Valmir Pimenta
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Windows 10 share to MS-Dos 6.22 failing after an update from Windows 7
Updated a Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 and can no longer connect to the network share on a dos machine. The MSDOS 6.22 machine is a piece of industrial hardware that uses a mapped network drive connecting via netuse x: \\smbserver\dxcontrol
The…
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dx32control
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Windows File Sharing not working
We have a workstation on our domain that we need to share a printer from, and it's not working. I also set up a shared folder to help with testing.
Details:
We are on a domain. All operations performed by a domain admin account.
Group Policy has…
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ltwally
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Samba4 [homes] share
I am having issues with the [homes] share.
OS is Ubuntu 12.04.
I've installed samba 4.0.3, bind9 dlz, ntp, winbind, everything but pam modules, and did all the tests from https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO.
Running getent passwd and…
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SambaDrivesMeCrazy
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