Skip to main content

All Questions

0 votes
0 answers
315 views

Mount a 2nd SMB Share Drive from Local Windows PC to Ubuntu 22.04.03

Today is the first day of my 38 years on this planet that I am using Linux. So please be patient with me. I have successfully followed a series of steps to mount a share folder from my Windows Desktop,...
MartyCH85's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
3k views

Optimizing NFS share for many small files

I'm attempting to setup a file share system for a system where users are given access to ephemeral virtual machines to work on projects that read/write a large amount of small files. For example, a ...
Patrick Bell's user avatar
6 votes
2 answers
14k views

How to mount a public windows share in linux

This is more a Windows configuration question I think. Goal: To access Windows 10 public shares from Linux. In this context: "server" is a single simple standalone Windows 10 machine, and &...
xpt's user avatar
  • 8,851
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

Trouble using mount.cifs to mount a share drive on a local network after updating packages

Currently I have a computer running Arch linux 6.3.3-arch1-1. After running a system update with pacman -Syu about a month ago I have been unable to mount my network share drive, which is in my /etc/...
Joel Macaluso's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
243 views

Linux Connect to Windows 10 Share (SMB1 succeeds, SMB2 fails)

Problem description: Linux mounting SMB1 on a Windows 10 computer works as follows because "SMB1 Support" is enabled: mount -t cifs -o user=USER,password=USER,vers=1.0 //192.168.1.222/SHARE /...
MistaRoboto's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

Can't open a mount point folder which is within a NFS share

I have a raspberry pi. I have shared the /home/pi/ folder via NFS like this: contents of /etc/exports /home/pi *(rw,all_squash,insecure,async,no_subtree_check,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000) From ...
user11230's user avatar
  • 497
0 votes
0 answers
1k views

Samba share mounts as rw but non-root users can't write to it

On machine A with IP address 192.168.0.2, /etc/samba/smb.conf contains [store] path=/store writeable=yes valid_users=myusername On machine B, when I I mkdir /tmp/net/store sudo mount -t cifs -o user=...
spraff's user avatar
  • 2,208
0 votes
1 answer
890 views

How to create a mounting point to a shared drive from a linux subsystem on a Windows machine?

I have a Windows machine (Windows-10). There I've installed the Ubuntu app from Canonical Group Limited, this allows me to have a Ubuntu subsystem, which I regularly use for grep, sort and other ...
Dominique's user avatar
  • 2,281
4 votes
2 answers
6k views

Samba reports incorrect disk space when on shared mount points not directly beneath /media

I have some shares that are located on mount points like: media/ backups/ 01/ 02/ 03/ ... 01, 02, 03 and so on are different physical drives mounted at those locations for ...
autobottodoggo's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
474 views

Can't mount Samba share - "No such device or address"

I have a WiFi modem (10.1.1.1) running a Samba 1.0 file server (SHARE) and a USB flash drive connected to it. I am trying to mount the share directory to my existing local directory /mnt/smb. Output ...
Donald C. Vargas's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
23k views

How to share a directory on a Linux machine to a Windows machine via NFS?

What are the full steps one needs to do to mount a directory from a Linux machine as a network drive on a Windows machine via NFS? Incomplete answer: Linux side: Install the NFS server and ...
Vladimir Panteleev's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
3k views

Linux to Windows, can list smb shares but cannot mount

This is a really weird one and all the research I've done so far isn't panning out. I'm trying to connect to a Windows share from CentOS 7.5.1804 to Windows Server 2008 R2 (no snickering and let's ...
MGoBlue93's user avatar
  • 293
1 vote
2 answers
1k views

Mount network share and merge with existing files in mount point

I have a program running on a Raspberry Pi 3 (Rasbian Jesse) that drops files in a directory called /mount-point. At bootup, I am mounting a windows share called /incoming to /mount-point. There is a ...
RealManBearPig's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
618 views

CIFS mounted W10 share dies when left idle

I'm running a Plex server in a headless HyperV Ubuntu server virtual machine. The media is stored in a Windows 10 share, mounted via CIFS. My fstab entries look like this: //<share> <...
rxj's user avatar
  • 56
2 votes
1 answer
1k views

Share mounted samba share in another share

I have a directory that is shared via samba. Now I mount a share on another computer to a directory that is inside this share. The problem is that this mounted share appears as empty directory when ...
user579825's user avatar

15 30 50 per page