Questions tagged [cifs]
SMB / CIFS is a network protocol that allows sharing of files across a network of nodes. The protocol is based on a design where the customer requests it sends packets to the server, the server in turn sends response packets to the client.
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CIFS (Windows Share) or NFS for Windows directory share
I have a (Virtualized) Linux server which I'd like to backup regularly. The rest of our environment is Microsoft and our backup solution (ArchiveIQ) runs only on Windows - there are no Linux clients.
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How can I stop $RECYCLE.BIN from being created (or hide it) on network drives/folders?
I have a Windows 7 desktop which has 3 drive mappings to CIFS shares on a FreeBSD home server. There are also special folders (Desktop, etc) stored on the CIFS shares.
Each of these (including the ...
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WD TV Live HD and Solaris
Since a few months I own a WD TV Live HD media player and I'm pretty satisfied with it. The performance is good and it's quite stable.
But from the beginning I had issues with the CIFS implementation ...
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failed to mount cifs via autofs
I try to tune mounting and give next error in /var/log/messages:
Nov 10 10:37:00 cvv automount[3038]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/cifs/acad
Nov 10 10:37:01 cvv automount[3333]: >> Usage: ...
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How to mount via cifs non-unicode samba sever with character set conversion?
in old times of smbfs I use codepage and iocharset options, but cifs does not support codepage. What I can do?
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Windows 7 slow write to Samba/CIFS OpenSolaris server
I have a NAS server with OpenSolaris and kernel-based CIFS/Samba share and I get these weird results when working with it from different computers over the Gigabit LAN:
Read speed is blazing fast and ...
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CIFS Share Mount Error
I have a samba share on my Fedora 13 machine. The problem is that on my system if I try to mount the share it failed every time, on all other windows and Linux machines there is no problem.
I used ...
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Unable to mount cifs share
Debian squeeze.
# mount //192.168.2.6/Pub/ m -o guest
mount error(1): Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
I test it on clear system (Debian squeeze ...
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File 'pagefile.sys' in CIFS mount of '//windowshost/C$' makes Nautilus give up in disgust
So, I'm running a Fedora 13 VM in VirtualBox under Windows Server 2008. I need to have access to the host drives from inside the VM, so I mount them. I use the C$ and D$ default shares. Here's the ...
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How to mount remote samba share from local host with multiple groups?
I am using mount.cifs to mount a remote samba share (both client and server are Ubuntu server 8.04) like this:
mount.cifs //sambaserver/samba /mountpath -o credentials=/path/.credentials,uid=someuser,...
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Automatically mounting windows share in Fedora 12
I'm trying to automatically mount a windows share in a Fedora 12 instance (FC12).
When I manually mount things work:
mount -t cifs //nas01/servers -o username=guest,password=myPassword /mnt/nas01/...
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Offline cache copies in Windows file sharing
I frequently access media files (music or video) on a remote Windows file share. My Internet connection is not very fast, and I find it a waste of bandwidth when I repeatedly access the same files. ...
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Are there any good CIFS proxy out there?
I know samba4 can do this, but apparently it's still in alpha. I want to have a caching CIFS proxy. Any thoughts?
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Why can't certain files on my external drive be deleted with Unix utilities?
I have an external drive (WD My Book World) mounted on my Ubuntu system which I've used for backups over the last few years. Some of the backups included SVN repositories which now include files ...
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How to link to a subfolder of a share?
On my Windows XP server, a folder called Share2 is shared. It contains a subfolder called folder3.
The guest account is protected by a password, which means network users have to type the guest ...
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