SMBFS denotes the combination of two abbreviations "SMB" and "FS" which stand for "Server Message Block" and "File System" respectively. It is mainly notable for providing support for mounting resources using SMB protocol in Linux variants. Currently, focus has been shifted from SMBFS to CIFS (Common Internet File System) as its next generation alternative.
Questions tagged [smbfs]
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How to configure Samba to allow root user for full control to the particular share?
$(subj), it appears to be what root user is denied by default for all of the shares.
I'm trying to reproduce Windows administrative share.
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CIFS VFS: BAD_NETWORK_NAME on Linux
I am struggling with an issue of Windows SMB share mounted on Linux servers getting disconnected once in a while.
To give a brief introduction about my environment, I have few linux servers which has CIFS shares mounted from Windows file share…
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Arun Krishnan
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Can "wannacrypt" (wcrypt) spread via Linux server serving over SMB?
Is it possible, or will this only spread via a Windows machine serving over SMB?
If Linux serving over SMB can spread wannacrypt, what's the approach to take?
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fredrik
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SMBfs mounting OK, listing OK, Read KO, smbclient OK
I've tried to make the title the most meaningfull I could but it still looks ugly.
The premises.
We are using RHEL3-U8 as OS on most servers here, don't ask me why or suggest to upgrade, it's not on today's schedule. That means kernel used is…
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Unable to mount windows share in ubuntu
I am trying to mount windows machine directory in my ubuntu 10.04.3 server. When I try to see the shared directory in the windows server its showing properly using the below command. The windows mahcine is joined to local domain xyz.com
My doubt is,…
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Must `kinit` user's ticket manually before PAM can mount SMB home directory at login
Ubuntu 14.04 file server
Ubuntu 14 Active directory (AD) server running Samba 4
Ubuntu 18 client (fresh install)
I've configured for Ubuntu user home directories to be mounted via PAM and SMB/CIFS.
The test directory will mount via CIFS manually,…
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Mounting a share with spaces in FreeBSD fstab
I'm trying to mount a smb network share in fstab on FreeBSD, which works fine for a share without spaces, but fails if a space is in the name. I have replaced the space with \040 which is what everything on google has said, but that didn't…
Blake
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Connecting S3 as a SMB share
I currently have a regular on Premise SMB file share using a storage NAS. I want to delete the NAS all-in-all and use S3 service. I want to know is it possible to have it attach to say my Windows File Server as a network drive. Then from there…
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Can I use DFS or a namespace to redirect the top level share e.g. \\server\redirect -> \\otherserver\share\some\path\
Let's say I have a share with a really long path. e.g.
\\targetserver\share\folder1\folder2\folderIWant.
I can use DFS to get a shorter path, e.g.
\\server\shareFolder\folderIWant
However, I was hoping to shorten it even further by getting rid of…
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YasharBahman
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How to mount a smb drive with different credentials (user name and password) on Linux?
Ok, I have here a laptop on which runs Linux (CentOS 7). The laptop will be used from different user's (which have all different login's on the laptop). We have in our network a Samba server. All users which have a login on the laptop have also…
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How to use noatime with smbfs
I am using the mount command on a Linux server to access a Windows server using smbfs. Can I use noatime to prevent read operations (such as cp on Linux) from changing the last-accessed time on files on the Windows server?
If so how can I do this?
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Liam
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mount error 5 = Input/output error
I am running out of ideas. After a long period of testing this morning, I cannot seem to get this to work, and I have no idea why. I want to mount a Windows SMB/CIFS share with a Debian 5.0.4 VM, and it is not cooperating.
This the command I am…
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Config file of smb in Solaris 11.2
I have a server which is running solaris 11.2. I can login by root, and the smbd service is running in the server, but I cannot detect the place where the samba config file is. Do you know how to find the samba config file?
root@backup01:~# ps…
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Waveter
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How can we use LDAP to authenticate SMB share in FreeNAS?
SMB service has been enabled, I can share using freeNAS created users to authenticate SMB share. But how can we use LDAP to authenticate SMB shares? Current LDAP configuration in running on different server.
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Prabesh Thapa
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mounted a symlink on a mountpoint
I have a samba share called A on a machined named aaron. Inside that share is a smylink called Audio-CD_WAVs which points to a machine local directory. When this share is accessed by a windows machine, samba follows the link and exports the target…
khoran512