Questions tagged [cifs]
CIFS is a virtual file system in use by samba, and Windows servers to share files between different system.
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CIFS (SMB1) share mounts but cannot cat or copy to local filesystem
I am trying to connect various systems to a SMB share of a USB drive that is connected to a TP-Link router (TP-Link AC1750) and is shared as //192.168.0.1/sda1. Using the command (run as ROOT user): ...
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Debian 13: localsearch (indexing service) is not indexing smb share on a Synology NAS mounted via the /etc/fstab file
I have a laptop with Debian 13 installed and a Synology NAS with an SMB share that holds music files. I have added a line to the /etc/fstab file to auto mount this share during startup. The line is ...
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Linux NFS sync with windows SMB very slow
I have a dataset on my NAS (TrueNAS) which I share to a Linux system via NFS (v4) and my Windows PC via SMB (v3). This works fine, however when I change a file on my PC it takes between 20 seconds up ...
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Debian 13 does not show SMB shares on the desktop
In Debian 13, with the GNOME desktop environment, in fstab, I have placed the following line to mount an SMB share from a Synology NAS: //192.168.1.117/video /media/NAS/video cifs username=video,...
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Why can I browse this Windows share using smbclient, but cannot mount it with mount.cifs?
I am working in a primarily Windows environment. I need to access a Windows shared drive which is known among my colleagues as "the L drive". Running net use on a Windows machine shows the ...
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Read-only mount a btrfs image and overwrite UID
The story is that a week ago my local disk faulted, and I dd'd the entire disk device to a full.img file and uploaded it to my OpenMediaVault server. Now I have replaced the disk and reinstalled the ...
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Cannot open LibreOffice files on Samba share concurrently on Debian Linux - File locking issue
We have a Samba file server and use Debian Linux for both server and clients. Everything works fine. Except for one thing: If someone opens a LibreOffice document (mainly Calc / *.ods), nobody else ...
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systemd fails to mount CIFS share at boot with _netdev option: "mount error(101): Network is unreachable"
I'm trying to automatically mount a CIFS network share at /mnt/Share using systemd on boot, with the _netdev option in /etc/fstab. However, the mount fails with the following error in journalctl: May ...
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How to fix VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115 after an update
This was quite a catastrophic update. Initially, all I got after reboot was a brief error that turned into kernel panic after a few seconds. I booted into the previous kernel but it would not start X. ...
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x-systemd.automount and noauto causes CIFS mount to ignore uid/gid and mount as root
I'm trying to mount a CIFS (Samba) share using /etc/fstab, and I want it to be owned by a specific user (myuser), not root. My current fstab line is: # <file system> <mount point> <...
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Can See Samba Shares on Phone, but Cannot Mount
I can ping my phone's server: lobsang@lobsang-Inspiron-3195:~$ ping 192.168.86.26 PING 192.168.86.26 (192.168.86.26) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.86.26: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=305 ms ...
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Samba serve unmounted FS
I was delinting a smb.conf and it occurred to me that oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no is because the server's backup solution accesses the shared files not through the cifs filesystem module. Which ...
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CIFS mount containing windows symlinks access
For years I used a setup where I have a CIFS mount to a windows share directory. This directory contains symlinks to other windows location. Trying to replicate this on the latest raspberry pi OS (...
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mount of smb share does work on Debian 11 but not on Debian 12 and uses wrong user
I have a kind of strange bug. I try to mount smb/cifs share of windows server 2019 as server using Debian as client. The following exact command does work on Debian 11.11 but not on 12.9 with myuser ...
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ksmbd share looks empty at client side
I'm trying to get ksmbd work on a machine running bookworm. But regardless if I'm using a Linux GUI, CLI or a Windows 10 Client, I'm unable to browse through files or directories within the mounted ...
