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 | Having just acquired a Raspberry Pi Model 3, I am attempting to set it up as an NAS. So far I have set up the Raspberry Pi OS and configured samba. It appears to be working fine except for one minor problem. While I can remote in using TightVNC, I … |
 | I just set up a samba media server and I got it up and running but it currently has to have a username and password to access the files. Do you know lines I need to edit in these two files to allow anyone, user or not to access the … |
| | I was struggling to find a good place to put this one, should it go in the Linux forums, should it go in the Windows forums? Anyway, networking seemed like as good a place as any so here goes: I'm currently setting up a SAMBA file server which I am … |
| | I am switching our file server from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu Server 12.04) and am using Samba. I was able to successfully set up all the folders needed with the same name that was on Windows. However, there are two folders on the Windows share that is being used by … |
| | Hi! I have a work Samba file server on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I can successfully add small files to it like docs and pdfs. However when I try to add a large file, for instance a 1.2gb video file, the server appears to timeout after appearing to be halfway completed. … |
| | I'M reading "Linux + Guide to Linux Certification" and I've come to samba and I'M having trouble understanding a few things. The book says I need to add a username and password on the Linux system that corresponds to the username and password on the Windows clients? And then another …  |
| | Just got ubuntu server up and running and now I'M trying to get samba installed on it. When I type samba at the prompt it says "samba not sintallled type sudo apt-get install samba4" to install samba. When I do I get the following. Reading package list...done Building dependancy tree …  |
| | I am setting up a samba server. When I place the folders that Samba will use inside of the /tmp folder, everything works fine. However, when I try to use a directory that I created, it will not let me access it from another computer. I have given public permissions … |
 | [b]What's Samba? [/b] Samba allows linux computers to share files and printers across a network connection. By using its SMB protocol, your linux box can appear in Windows Network Neighborhood or My Network Places just like any other windows machine. You can share files this way, as well as printers. … |
| | Hello! I just want everyone to know that I'm a linux beginner and have just started learning beyond the very basics. The problem I'm having is that only one account can access the shared folders (and it's not root) and I've been searching the internet like crazy but still haven't … |
| | I am have a small Ubuntu based file server running in a small business. I set up Samba and I can log in to the server and RW files to the directory on the server from the windows machines. There is, however, another folder within the shared directory which has …  |
| | I have set up a Samba file server on linux that is hosting files for my windows dominant network. However, even though I've changed: [code]workgroup = WORKGROUP[/code] to [code]workgroup = ExampleWRKGRP[/code] Then I restarted Samba. It still shows up in the windows network in the workgroup "WORKGROUP" What am I … |
| | Hello all ... i'm still new in linux networking ... my office use mandriva 2005 w/ samba as the file server and all client using win Xp to access the shared folder on that server I need your help about these matter : 1. how to config mandrake/samba to detect … |
| | Hi: I have a working samba file share server working ok. But all users have to join using the same login/password. I need every user have is own folder, unvisible to others users and password protected. These folders are used as backups, and added to shared folderd shorcuts. I use … |
| | Hello, <br /><br /> We are struggling with getting IIS 6 (Win 2003 server) to connect to a Samba share that contains some dynamically generated resources. We are able to mount the drive on the Windows server and create a Virtual Directory to that new drive using 'Connect As' with … |
| | Hello, I'm a newbies with Linux RedHat. I've followed your instructions on how to configure the samba and now I can see my linux server from Win98 computer. My problem is how to create a new user. Let say, I logged in as win98 from Win98 PC and wanted to … |
| | Hello i have ubuntu . I can rightclick on any folder and share it and i am able to view them from my windows xp machine and another linux machine at home. but when i try to share stuff from the a second HardDrive from the said ubuntu machine , … |
 | Do you need to connect your Linux Desktops or Servers to Microsoft's Active Directory (AD)? If you do, now you can learn how to do it straight from the source at Microsoft's TechNet site in the article: [URL="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd228986.aspx"]Authenticate Linux Clients with Active Directory[/URL]. Do you wonder why you'd want to … |
| | Hi, I've a *ix machine and I need to share some folders with Windows users. I use samba for this purposes. Samba is set-up and works fine. All windows users use one id to mount (net use) samba drive. But the problems is that when user tries wrong password 3(or … |
| | Hello, I've recently setup samba to run on my server, and it works perfectly well within my LAN. I can access all the shares.. However, I cannot access the shares over the internet. I've tried connecting by IP and by name, but it fails either way. The ports are forwarded … |
| | This is a Samba Tutorial. Its for getting a linux server to replace a basic (windows NT4 level of functionality) server, perhaps in a costcutting scenario, to serve files to windows (nt4 to xp) clients. A good idea for a small home server (provided you have xp pro clients, home … |
| | When I share a new folder on my XP box it isn't picked up by samba after a while. If I immediately connect to the network and share a folder samba picks it up. After about 10 minutes if I share another folder samba won't pick it up. I notice … |
| | I'm having many little problems with my gigabit network. My hard drive reads at 85 MB/s, so why am I downloading from the ftp server at 68 MB/s? How could I diagnose what is eating those 17 MB/s? Why does my windows machine have a slow 326 Mbit/s transmit speed … |
| | So I read the techpost article on setting up samba to be accessed by windows computer (good article for a newbie) by cscgal. However, being new to Linux, the config settings are eluding me to set the share up to be accessed by clients on my win2k AD network. I … |
| | Running ubuntu 8.04 and Samba version 3.0.28a. I'm trying to restrict the number of directories users can share with the "usershare max shares" option. I set it to 3 but I can still share directories with 10 files in them from my windows machine (XP). Here is smb.conf. [CODE] [global] … |
| | Hi, I've been trying to figure out how to log on from my xp box to the samba server running on a redhat 9.0 box. Everything seems proper, I can access locally from the linux box and the xp can see the samba server too. When I double click from … |
| | I have a Win 2k AD domain controller, how do I access the network from a Redhat 8 box. I am new to Linux so take it slowly. I read a couple of articles about Samba. Is Samba something separate I have to install on top of Redhat, or is … |
| | I'm reworking my networking scheme and I wanted to make my network file shares accessible via WAN. Rather than dealing with VPN through varying network configurations when I travel I want to make all my file server FTP. Would there be any problems with this? I know that FTP transfers … |
| | I am running some makeshift tar backups, because our tape drive is broken. The target location of the tar file is a mounted samba share on another server on the network. Once the tar file reaches 2 GB, I get the following error. [CODE]backupjob.bash: line 79: 25891 Broken pipe[/CODE] This … |
| | I have a bit of an odd one here and I am hoping someone might have a clue as to what I am missing... The plan was to take a Fedora 3 2TB server and replace it with a Fedora 7 4TB server. The system has been duplicated and the … |
| | Hello, I have used different versions of Samba over the years and always had this problem: My SMP P2-450 Slot1 OpenSuse 10.0 server is supposed to be a really stable file server, among other things. And that it is! ... except for the file server part. Whenever I try to … |
| | Hello All, I am new to the forum and have a bit of a problem... I am trying to change the windows generated UID numbers to specific UIDs when I log in to the linux machines. I am having trouble changing the UIDs to specific numbers. I downloaded and installed …  |
| | I want to mount windows share folder in linux. I m using Samba.. please tell me i need to do some thing on windows side or not.. I m able to see linux folder in windows ... but not reverse... i given command.. mount -t smbfs -o username=guest //1.7.9.1/Build_stage /mnt/ntserver … |
| | Hi, folks! I recently forced to upgrade my systems from RHEL3 to RHEL4, due to new software requirements, and now I'm having some weird problems with Samba: 1) When I mount Windows shares using smbmount, I can write to a share normally, but if this share contains many files (I … |
| | Ok, feel free to move this to the networking forum Basically I have a debian etch server up and running and have installed samba but the bad news is my meddling has deleted the smb.conf file. Can anyone give me one suitable for the following setup no security - full … |
| | Please help: This is what I am trying to do... I want to have one shared folder called "shared folder" on my linux box. I want it to be accessable to everyone on the workgroup. Like a shared folder with zero security, so everyone has access to the folder from …  |
| | XP cant do domain controller etc.... and home has no passwords or ACLs so how about a windows port of samba? It would basically turn an xp home machine into a 2k3 server |
| | Hello all, I have successfully installed samba 3.0.22 on my sol 9 e250 machine. I created my share but when i try to get to my share from my windows machine, it prompts me for my username and passwd, i enter it and it just comes back prompting me for … |
| | First of all I would like to thank CSCGAL for a very informative tutorial on setting up samba. As you may well have guessed I am a linux newbie. I went through the tutorial and executed all of the steps as described... but when I restarted samba and tested the … |
| | I have tried the instructions from Red Hat, the instructions from a guy on JustLinux.org and I cant get Samba to work. I downloaded the latest version of Samba and it installed ok. I can view shares on Linux from the Windows machines, but I cant write files in the …  |
| | I'm setting up Linux with Samba on a small LAN for a friend. I got everything working except on the Windows computers I can't go to the files under a shared folder (shared on the Samba computer), I can view the Samba shares from the Windows computers but just cant …  |
 | Hello, I've done a 1 page tutrial on my site to show how I set up SMB file sharing on my dell dimesion 2400 running Mandriva. Has anyone tried Fedora 5 yet? I may install fedora, and do a similar tutorial if anyone is interested. Is "kcmshell fileshare" a generic … |
| | I have downloaded samba but i do not know how to install it Somebody told me that i would have to do it by commands, i have tried to look inside the folder i downloaded and it does not seem to have a .exe file is my firs time trying … |
 | Hello. I'm sorry, I mistake the place to post replies. But I'm on the way now. I was saying that I just read your "How to Configure Samba on RedHat Linux" tutorial. I configured my samba server and I could connect my shared folder on localhost. But here is the … |
| | I'm having a huge problem trying to get samba to work. I want to be able to put my Redhat 7.3 box onto my Windows workgroup. My linux box can see my windows pcs fine, but not the other way around. My linux box appears in Network Neighborhood in windows, … |
| | hi guys, strange problem, I discovered samba has been deleted at no fault of my own. Just deleted..... I noticed the firewall was switched off too which is concerning. I must have switched the firewall off to test something and never turned it back on.. When linux loads it says …  |
| | I using Knoppix 3.7 on two machines, one with kernel 2.4.27 and the other with 2.6.9. I running freevo on the 2.6.9 box and samba (latest debian version, 3.0.x I think) on the 2.4.27 one. The samba server has two usb 250GB drives (one of the shared as the /tv … |
| | When XP SP1 client access to SAMBA server, Quota do work. Share drive isn't show limit capacity. On the other hand, it show fully capacity. Why? How can i do? Thx! < My Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 quota 3.09-1 & samba-3.0.0-14.3E >  |
| | Hi, I've been trying to get SMB and SAMBA working, and I've been having a few problems. I have succeded creating a connection from my Mac (MAC OS X, v. 10.2.8 ) and Windows XP home, but I can't get it to work with Linux! First, when my Linux was … |
| | Please help me, folks :) I have an OS 10.3 machine and a Windows XP Professional machine on the same workgroup / LAN. I use Samba to share files between them, and that works just fine. I also have my mac set up to share its printers. Therefore, my Windows …  |
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