Questions tagged [file-sharing]
A mechanism for allowing and mediating access to files for non-local users and programs. Such mechanisms are either built on top of local filesystems or seamlessly integrated into distributed filesystems. Common examples of file sharing mechanisms include CIFS (SMB, DFS), NFS, GlusterFS, Lustre.
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Active Directory - grant access rights to a user that belongs to multiple groups
I have a Windows 2012 Server with file server role.
I have users in my active directory which are defined by 3 things : country - service - role
I have about 10 countries, 10 services and 5 roles.
How ...
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Best options for storing and sharing data over mutiple servers, to be accessed by multiple users
In the environment I currently work in there are several servers dedicated to various departments. However we recently got our hands on several identical servers potentially, around 10+. I'm hoping ...
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Dynamically sharing file/folder between users on the same machine with subdirectory
I have 3000+ local users on my Linux system. I want to set permissions dynamically for folder or files.
I came across ACLs (Access Control Lists) when I researched this topic. All users home location ...
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Google drive exclusive file locking
Is there a way to acquire an exclusive lock for files in Google Drive to prevent concurrent modifications?
I'm helping a friend to set up their small business office, and they need to be able to share ...
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Can we mount single SAN block level storage are on two separate VMs having different OSs
We have one VM having HP-UX, on which a storage area is already mounted from SAN as block level vxfs.
We need to share the same storage area on another VM in real-time read-only mode but we can only ...
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Best practice of what folders must not go to DFS-Replication File server?
I'm using The existing Windows Server 2016 DFS-Replicated file servers across 10 different locations.
Each site offices in different regions and countries across the globes are replicated.
However, ...
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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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Sharing folders with X2Go?
I just started using x2go to establish a remote desktop connection between two Debian 10 machines and discovered the neat file-sharing functionality of the x2goclient (Session Preferences > Shared ...
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Solution for file server migration to Azure cloud
I have a file server(2008 R2) running on my on-prem environment. I have around 400 users in my environment. I want to migrate this server to the Azure cloud with all SMB permissions. At the same time, ...
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“a specified logon session does not exist. it may already have been terminated” after i joined the device to azure active directory
"a specified logon session does not exist. it may already have been terminated" after i joined the device to azure active directory
-i can't access our shared folder in our server after i joined the ...
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Can write to all smb shares except root of mounted USB drive
I have a USB drive mounted to /media/usbdrive on my Ubuntu 20.04 box. I can write files to any share except the root share. Meaning, I have these shares set up in smb.conf:
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How would i go about creating a server that can read/write all files on the host hdd?
I work in the media department of a large ministry group. We frequently travel and produce TBs of data/files every quarter. Due to the high amount of Digital Media produced, most cloud-based storage ...
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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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Azure - File Share using HTTPS
Is it possible to share Azure Storage's files through HTTPS without using RestAPI?
I know it's native feature is to provide this through SMB 3.0, but is there a way without having to develop ...
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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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