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Mac won't connect to Samba on Pi

I wish to connect a Mac (Big Sur) to a Samba server running on a Raspberry Pi (Bullseye). The Samba server works on the Pi, but when I try to connect the Mac to the server smb://192.168.0.237/share it ...
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Resume TimeMachine backup with Samba on RPi

I backup my Mac using TimeMachine over Samba which is installed on my Raspberry Pi (with Raspbian Lite). Everything was OK since a long time (I started this backup from macOS Big Sur and now I'm on ...
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samba share running but shares are not accessible (raspbian)

I am setting up a raspberry pi 4 server with samba (SMBD/CIFS) file-share and despite replicating tutorials and using the same setup as on a previous pi I could not get it to connect. The samba ...
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How fix the device icon in macOS Finder's Network location?

This is probably not a macOS (Catalina) problem, but rather a Raspberry Pi-problem. All I did was install the latest Raspbian buster on a Pi 4. (I also installed samba). Is something perhaps wrongly ...
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Mount filesystem through network, works with file explorer, can't figure it out mount

I have connected a USB drive to my internet box in order to share it on my network. I am trying to mount it automatically on boot on two of my linux computers running Archlinux and Raspbian. On both ...
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Join raspbian in a samba domain

I'm trying for an rpi in a samba domain. I researched a lot but nothing works ... I would ask for a tutorial from you guys or even the link to some that worked. I'll use the same raspbian. I'm ...
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Win 10 connecting to SAMBA on raspbian gives "wrong password"

I'm trying to set up a raspbian server (yes pi) and use a usb drive to share via samba. Basic setup with no authentication works fine from my windows 10 machine. [global] server string = %h (Samba,...
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Not able to write on samba server

So, I've been doing a ton of research trying to solve this, and several hours later, I'm absolutely stuck. I know this has something to do with permissions, but I have absolutely no clue on how to ...
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Samba refuses to start with ro rootfs

I configured Raspbian Stretch to mount rootfs in read-only mode. Basically I did the following: apt-get -y remove --purge triggerhappy logrotate dphys-swapfile apt-get -y install busybox-syslogd; ...
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Disable samba shares leaving alive wins support

On an embedded system (RPi, Raspbian Stretch) I use samba to share a directory with Windows systems. I also use the wins support to easily ssh into the system using the hostname instead of the ip ...
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Samba: Identical samba shares on Linux acting differently

Server 1: 10.0.0.10 smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP Server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu) dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 panic ...
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Mounting Linux Samba share in Linux

It seems that allmost ANY question or explanation on this subject deals with mounting linux shares in windows or the other way around. I've got a simple linux server (raspbian), running a Samba ...
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Problems connecting to Samba public share from Windows 10

I have a Windows 10 machine (latest update as of 2016-10-10) which absolutely refuses to access a public Samba share on a Linux (Raspbian - Debian derivate) server, without pre-entering credentials in ...
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Windows 10 64 domain computer cannot access Linux (Raspberry Pi3) samba share

Samba server: Raspberry Pi3, running osmc media server (I believe this is a down-scaled Raspbian version). Samba version: 4.2.10 Domain controller: Windows 2012 Windows client: Windows 10 Evt. 64-...
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Simple samba configuration for write access to usb drive (raspbian)

I have been trying for hours getting an NTFS usb drive shared from a raspberry with raspbian to a WIndows 8 PC over ethernet, via samba. I don't care about security, I want to be able to share my ...
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