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A free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, which provides Windows file and print services. Use this tag when your question involves Samba shares, mounts, or printers.

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I'm trying to follow the instructions on the Fedora site, to create a Samba share:- sudo dnf install samba Package "samba-2:4.23.3-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed. Nothing to do. sudo ...
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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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I have configured a smb.service (Samba service version 4.10.15) on a Linux system for sharing the folder myshare. I'm doing some connection tests by a smbclient installed on an other workstation Linux....
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I have a smb share which works correctly so far, with one exception: all new files in the given share get the user's primary group instead of the group specified in force group. Here's the section ...
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I have installed Samba on my Linux distribution. I can share the folder myshare with Windows PCs with no problem. A Windows10 PC can connect to myshare by its File Explorer, writing on its address bar:...
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I'm trying to understand the purpose of the option delete readonly = yes which can be set in the configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf on a Linux system where is installed the service smd. From ...
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I am trying to set up a Flamenco render farm for Blender. One of the requirements is that symlinks work across Samba shares and Windows clients (Flamenco docs). According to this Unix SE answer, the ...
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I want to create a Samba shared folder where users are allowed to: get the files already present in the folder remove files already present in the folder but they CANNOT: create/copy new files ...
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I would like to share a folder by a Samba server installed in my Linux (yocto) distribution. The configuration of my Samba server (file /etc/samba/smb.conf) The output of the command testparm -s is: # ...
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On my Fedora 42 Linux system, I have an ext4 file system named /pictures, which is exported as a Samba share. It is mounted on a Windows 10 system. When this is updated on the Linux side (mass renames,...
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I have Synology DS923+ NAS with 32 GB memory and two hard drives in RAID1. It runs Linux 4.4 with the ext4 filesystem. Copying a 20GB file from my laptop to NAS using SMB with 10GbE wired ethernet ...
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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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I have shared my home folder over samba as follows: when i try to create folders from windows I get error "cant create" but folder is created. But permissions are all messed up. file is also ...
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I want to share my data on my Rocky 9 server to family members using windows PCs. I setup and config samba. Seems something is missing. Users are not able to login. They are trying their unix ...
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I have a NAS that exports some directories as SAMBA shares. It works normally very well. Now I have mounted this particular share on a Linux box, using fstab. This also works. However, I would like to ...
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