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How to configure a Windows Server 2022 machine to allow file sharing with a DNS alias
Machines on my company's network can access file shares on a Windows Server 2022 system using the FQDN, but they can't access them using a DNS alias. I reviewed How to configure a Windows machine to ...
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Windows NTFS filesystem - user cannot access file using Administrators group permissions
There is a shared folder on the computer running Windows 2012R2 with a NTFS filesystem.
There is a local User X who is part of the local Group Administrators on the computer.
The Shared folder is ...
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Emulate local directory as network drive
Is there a way to map a local directory in Windows 10 as a network drive? I want to map C:\datastore as if it were \\datastore . Although there is plenty of information on mapping a network drive to ...
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Accessing Windows file server by alias name
What could be the possible problems with accessing a Windows file server shares using a DNS CNAME instead of the actual computer name? The file server is joined to an Active Directory domain, but is ...
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Migrating file server with Windows Deduplication by switching disk
I'm migrating a bunch of large file servers to new Windows VMs as a way of updating the OS, planning on switching the virtual disks over and exporting/importing the lanman share registry and retaining ...
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I'm trying to get Windows explorer to show non Windows based computers in the Network folder
For some reason my Windows machine has stopped showing non-Windows computers in the Network folder. It's Windows 10 22H2 19045. It does show other Windows computers. I can set up shares to folders in ...
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Cant ping between 2 machines in same subnet
I have machine A ubuntu with IP address 192.168.1.70 and machine B windows 10 with ip address 192.168.1.45. When i try to connect them using a lan cable i can ping between 2 machines successfully .....
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Cloud server advice for storing and managing files with user permissions
We are a little company with 15 workers. We work with invoices and files in common with PDF and Word extensions. For now our office workers work with local Windows shared folders but that computer was ...
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Windows clients slow to open SAMBA on Debian 10 (when using short hostname)
I'm having a strange problem for windows 8 and 2012R2 clients, which use a Debian 10 samba server in ADS mode. The issue is slow initial directory listing of the server, only when using the server's ...
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File Server Directory Structure
Let's say I have 3 main directories that need to be shared, I'll call them "Management", "Finance" and "Sales". There seems to be two logical ways of doing this: either I ...
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windows 10 keeps turning off file and printer sharing [closed]
EDIT: I'm not sure why this has two downvotes already. Perhaps before doing so, those inclined to downvote can explain why, which would be helpful to me even if you don't have an answer.
I have not ...
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Windows File Server - file creation error
We recently migrate our file server from win 2008R2 to a win2019. But from a network drive trying to create new folder or file will give you an error
"refers to a location that is unavailable".
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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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Most secure way to implement a file server to avoid ransomware
Hi I'm looking to migrate several large file servers off of windows 2012. Servers are mainly just serving flat .pdf, word files, on internal network mainly running windows 10 clients . I am strongly ...
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Can I connect computers between two routers?
Sorry in advance, I'm not a big networking guy. The best way to illustrate what I'm asking is to show it in this diagram:
I need to be able to establish file sharing on Windows from "Laptop" to "PC-1"...
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