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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RDP Read Only Local Drive
I need an auditor to be able to access the server's file system and be able to run programs on their local computer without the ability to save/copy the data.
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Unable to write to Windows file share "not enough space" yet drive has 10Gb free
I've got a system running Windows Server 2016 Standard.
It's got multiple file shares running from a common drive.
Periodically, I get an error when trying to save data to a file share on that drive.
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Create a Group RW-access for a KVM shared folder via virtiofs on Ubuntu Server 22
I have a folder /common on an Ubuntu Server 22 host which is RW accessible by all users in group users i.e. user alice (with uid 1000) is a member of users (with gid 12345) and has fuull RW access to /...
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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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Migrating 9 virtual machines to 1 server or pc
I have a build system set up which has 5 pcs and that has a total of 9 virtual machines using Hyper-V. I want to update this infrastructure and cut out the need for 5 physical pcs. Is there a way to ...
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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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ACL permissions not syncing with LDAP
Have a MacStudio running system 13.3.1 set up as a file server.
It is bound to an Open Directory server.
Using TinkerTool as a GUI to set/update permissions of the shared files/folders.
Everything ...
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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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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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Failover all cluster roles at once
I'm setting up a failover cluster on Azure 2019 VMs. I've got to set up both a file server and a generic service. Ideally I'd like to always move them both to the same node rather than having to do ...
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Unzipping to general file share is slow on azure shared disk. Clustered windows server 2019
I have a file share server running on an azure VM cluster.
Copying already existing files to the file share gets really good speed. Averaging about 60 MBps. So if I copy a file from a local machine ...
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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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Windows-10 shared folder permission
We have a small office LAN with a few Windows 10 PCs (without server). One PC has a shared folder which various users create files for sharing. For various reasons some created files are sometimes ...
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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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Folder/source code sharing options between linux guest and Windows host [closed]
Host is Windows 10,
guest is Ubuntu server, running under Virtual Box.
Desired feature is to be able to share a folder containing source code between these too.
Basically I want to be able to edit the ...
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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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How to connect to VAN ( Value Added Network) to download EDI
Looking to start implementing EDI and I was told that the EDI will be sent through a VAN ( Value Added Network). How to I access the EDI files? It used to be sent through FTP. Do I have to contact ...
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Access denied when listing Samba shares
I've installed Samba to share files with Windows 10 machines. The setup works correctly to access individual shares using their path such as \\myhost\sejf, but listing shares on \\myhost fails with ...
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Can I replace my Windows Server file/folder share service with a Raspberry Pi? [closed]
I have a Dell R720 on premise that acts as my primary domain controller for workstations. At one point the machine had many more functions and features and it was necessary to keep an on-premise ...
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Issue with two Dell R620 servers connected directly with Cat5e cable get slow speeds
I'm trying to set up a new Hyper-V cluster to run my virtual environment on. Decided to try out 2019 and currently I have two HOST servers (Dell R620s) connected together using a cat5 cable directly (...
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Azure file sharing and AD how to
I work for a small company, 5 users with Office365 standard license + email with custom domain.
We have an Azure account with a couple on VM for some legacy software.
We would like to set up a file ...
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File shares inacessible after server update
So I applied the 2021-9 updates on one of our Windows 2016 Server yesterday.
The server was configured with a File Sharing role and the share had been working smoothly for more than a year, no glitch ...
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How to give alternate name to localhost for sharing on windows?
I have a jenkins production job which involves multiple nodes/slaves and when we run the job it utilizes them based on the slave mentioned.
And also, it has access to some machines shared folders.So ...
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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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HOW : single VHD shared between 2 different VMs
I need to share single VHDX with 1 large partition containing no OS, just plain files (mainly pictures) and promote it to 2 different VMs with 2different OS at 1time :
VM Windows with stock keeping ...
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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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SAMBA shares don't work with short server name
I have a legacy SAMBA server to share files.
But I can't mount windows disk with short name:
net view \\dades.company.es -> That work
net view \\dades -> That don't work
net ...
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How to give permissions to local computers using computers' MAC addresses in Windows Server 2016 for file sharing
I have the following issue:
I have a server with Windows Server 2016, and I need to use it only for saving, reading, and modifying files with file sharing.
The way I have the restrictions is with ...
