Questions tagged [smb]
smb is an abbreviation for Server Message Block, a network protocol for sharing files and printers implemented by Windows, Samba and others.
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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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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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Can I disable the nmb.service of Samba if I want share a Linux folder with Windows PCs?
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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Samba wide links makes share inaccessible on Asustor NAS (ADM 5, Samba 4.20.0, Windows 11)
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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unable to login to samba share
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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rsync to SAMBA share permission denied
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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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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Access network Windows PC from Linux PC
I am working on a Fedora 41 machine. If I open the file browser and in the address bar type sftp://some_user@some_linux_PC it asks for some_user's password and after that I can read and write files in ...
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Can't mount samba-share but can connect via file explorer
TLDR: I can access an external harddrive via GUI tools but not via fstab / mount tooling.
I'm at my wits end with this one. I've got an external harddrive plugged into the back of my Asus router, with ...
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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 ...
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mount.cifs error(78): Remote address changed
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Windows fileserver (cluster with 2 nodes actually) & a RHEL 8 host residing in the same Active Directory domain, multiple locations on the fileserver mounted using mount.cifs.
Our problem ...
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discover and mount all the SMB shared folders of a server
I have a Synology NAS serving shared folders with SMB.
On Windows and MAC I just have to indicate the IP of the NAS and all the shared folder are discovered and mounted.
On linux (the latest Debian) (...
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