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Connecting openVPN windows 7 clients to the server

Apologies for the wording of the question - it was done in a rush, here with the altered wording: I have an openVPN server running on Ubuntu 18.04 which has samba running. I have no problems ...
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Can't log into Linux Samba share from Windows

Whenever I go to my network shares on windows, I am prompted with a request for username and password on the folder I want to access. Most of the time it won't let me log in with the username and ...
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Can cifs-utils be used to access a Debian/Linux filesystem from Windows?

I need to access files on a Debian 10 machine from a Windows 7 PC. The Debian machine is just a VirtualBox VM on the same Windows PC host. The Debian machine has a minimal Command Line Interface ...
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Connecting to Windows 7 using SMB protocol version 2.1 (Linux since 4.13)

Since the update to version 4.13 of the linux kernel my laptop running Arch Linux at first couldn't connect to the Windows 7 machines in my home network anymore. I've figured out that this is due to ...
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Unable to access samba shared folder on Windows 7

I have a server running RHEL. In the network are three workstations: two linux (RHEL) and one Windows 7. I am using samba to share a storage device (connected to the server) with the workstations. For ...
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Samba: Identical samba shares on Linux acting differently

Server 1: 10.0.0.10 smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP Server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 panic ...
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Windows 7: Map to 4 shares on same SMB host?

I have a Lubuntu 16.10 host file server with 4 Samba shares, each relating to a different physical disk. I want to map to each of these 4 shares simultaneously from Windows 7 (as I want to run ...
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can't access windows 7 shared folder via samba 4.2.10-Debian NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED & NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

Well it worked before the badlock update, not well, but worked. Now I'm just getting NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED & NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME. The only thing I set in my smb.conf is the netbios name. ...
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Samba 4.2.3 - Access Denied to Home folder as root user

I am running CentOS 7.2 x64 with Samba 4.2.3-12.el7_2. My Samba config is as follows: [global] server string = log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 guest ...
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Access from Win 7 inside Virtualbox to EXTERNAL Samba Ser

even after reading two days of information I havn't found a solution for my problem. I hope You can help me. I'm running Win 7 inside in a VirtualBox. The Virtualbox itself is running on an openSuSE ...
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Connecting with SMBCLIENT to Windows 7 produces error: "protocol negotiation failed: ERRDOS:ERRnomem"

We've got a home network that has a mix of different operating systems, including two Windows 7 Ultimate PCs, a couple of Android phones, a MacBook Pro and two Linux PCs. My housemates own all but the ...
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Creating a CIFS/Samba mountpoint on Windows 7

I have a PC that is already on a shared network. I am looking to see how to create a mountpoint for a folder in the C:\ with CIFS/Samba so that I can use it to have Linux mount to it. Is this possible ...
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Linux Messenger program to communicate with Windows 7/8 MSG.exe utility

I have found out that NetSend has been taken out of Windows 7/8 and replaced with Msg.exe. This is great and all, but if I want to send a message from Linux with smbclient to Windows without the ...
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Windows 7 Laptop can`t reliably connect to my Linux SMB shared directory

I have asked this before, and everytime I think I found a solution it still will not work reliably, so here I go again. :( I have several Windows 7 machines in my network and a linux server which ...
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Linux/Samba Windows7 and permissions on a per user basis

I would like to set up my NAS properly with user and group permissions. While this was easy to accomplish for all Linux boxes using NFS, I cannot get it to work with Windows and Samba, Windows7 and ...
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