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Samba server - single user connection limit

Is there a limitation for samba server to allow multiple connection's from single user? (Multiple PC's connecting to same samba server with same account) User was created through smbpasswd -a [...
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Access SMB over a custom port

I have the fileserver hosted on AWS. I was using smb port 445 to access the fileserver. I found out that some ISPs have blocked port 445, so I set up my fileserver instance behind AWS network load ...
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Share access to a network drive with other users on the same Windows machine

I am using net use to mount network drives. Of course they are only visible to the current user. I am wondering is it possible to share the drive with other users? What I am trying to achieve is to ...
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Windows 10 Pro for Workstations can't access anonymous file share

Note: No domain is in use here, we don't have one created yet. In our office we have a file server (A VM running Server Core 2016 with Desktop Experience) that hosts a number of file shares that are ...
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fileshare not working, windows 10

I can't share files from some windows 10 computers. Revision doesn't matter. port 445 is listening: TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4 TCP 192.168.0.27:54220 ...
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After disabling SMB v1 on server and workstations, files from mapped drive get "Invalid Signature" error when opened

For a newly installed Domain Controller I uninstalled SMB v1 and created a GPO that would disable SMB v1 on the domain-joined PC's in an attempt to reduce the effects of a ransomware infection. I've ...
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Windows 10 connecting to external SMB share

I currently have a Synology NAS at my office that I wish to connect to remotely with SMB. This works perfectly fine on my MacBook, I use finder to connect with smb:\\<domainname>\<share>, ...
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CENTOS 7 can't edit files on a shared Windows folder

I have the following very peculiar problem: We have a Windows server 2012 R2 server with some shares on it. I'm trying to get them to share via SMB3 at the very minimum. No problem with our Windows ...
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Equivalent of browseable = no in Windows

What's the equivalent of the smb.conf setting browsable = no in Windows? It's not just adding a $ to the share name to make it a hidden share. Running net view \\server /all on a for a Linux ...
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Can ZFS snapshots on a NAS (accessed via Windows Previous Versions) be made more flexible in regard to renaming files?

I have a NAS running on OpenSolaris/illumos/OmniOS with several shared ZFS file systems where autosnaps are active to preserve a history (keep 4 15-minute snaps, 24 hourly snaps, 7 daily snaps and so ...
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Permissions On Folder Give Me Access Denied. Why?

I have a user (dAdmin) and that user is a member of the domain admin's group and is also a member of the local server's (serverA) Administrators group. On the folder (fShare) I set it up as a share ...
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How to use SSH to access file shares: Win2012->2012 from service

This relates to Win2012-R2 on both sides of the equation. Bitvise and others have shown how to do SMB over SSH, for example here: http://www.bitvise.com/file-sharing However, this has the downside ...
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Network File Transfer Failures using Windows 7 Client and Windows CE "server"

Our company has 3 printers from Solidscape, each of which are controlled by a directly attached Windows CE device. This device exposes a file share via SMB which can be used to drop print jobs to be ...
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System Error 1240 mounting network share on Server 2008

I want to share a folder from a standalone Server 2012 system on a private LAN that other servers can access without authentication. There is no domain/AD in my environment. This is usually a simple ...
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Is there an alternative to Samba when it comes to sharing folders between Linux and Windows systems? [closed]

Let's assume I have two workstations. Workstation A is a Debian GNU/Linux based system with a bandwidth of approximately 100 MBit/s (up). Workstation B is a Microsoft Windows 7 based system with a ...
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