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Ubuntu 22.04 update disconnects Windows 11 network services
I'm running a Ubuntu 22.04-based file server (Samba to Windows 11 clients). Several weeks ago I ran apt upgrade. My ssh connection dropped part way through the upgrade. From that point I can get a ...
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Ubuntu can't see shared folders. Only sees Print$
I have a Ubuntu setup on a macmini acting as a file server. I have set up my smb.conf to share my folders.
I can see the folders when I access them from my Win10 machine and iphone (using Filebrowser) ...
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Not able to access protected folder in windows using samba
Im using ubuntu server 24.04 lts and samba for file sharing to windows. The problem is im unable to open or connect to password protected folder but public/not protected folder can be accessed easily.
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Ubuntu Nautilus can't see SMB file share
On my "Other locations" section, i used to be able to see my NAS server, however i had trouble with connecting to it. In the middle of poking around settings i must have messed something up ...
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Internet adapter don't work properly with different subnet masks in a multi adapter PC
I'm having some troubles trying to config a triple internet adapter configuration in my 'home made NAS server', aka a old computer like a server, using Ubuntu desktop 22.04.4 with a SAMBA share for my ...
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Ubuntu network mounts intermittently stop working
As the title says, some of the mounts work all the time, and some I need to do a restart for them to work. They always show they're mounted on my GUI but they do not work. Like I said, a restart ...
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Accessing windows servers
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 with kde desktop. I want to access some files on windows machines on the home network. I have installed Samba. I have followed configuration instructions. When I go to ...
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cannot access samba shares
I'm new to linux, but I'm trying to learn. I hope someone can help me out here.
I just installed ubuntu-server and i'm trying to set up some smb shares, my problem is that samba spits an the error ...
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Ubuntu server lts 22.04.3 errors && warnings while trying to download samba [duplicate]
When I try to download samba with sudo apt-get install samba I always get the same errors:
I'm very knew to ubuntu and I am following a tutorial to try and make a home server: https://youtu.be/...
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Samba traffic - Connection down
Very strange behaviour of my home network.
I connected a new pc to network, via Ethernet cable in switch.
There are also other pc connected, same way.
Since I plugged the cable, each time I open a ...
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How to make Ubuntu stay online without a display?
So I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.3LTS as a home network, and currently it's just connected to my TV so I don't have to worry about burn in on my TV or getting another monitor that I'll just replace in 6 ...
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GUI SFTPs won't connect to a U22 virtual server from w11
I am trying to configure a U22.04 desktop running under virtual box as a file server, with a W11 client. I have installed a VBox bridged adaptor.
I have installed samba, open-ssh and sftpd. I am ...
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Cannot connect to Samba share from Windows 11, have tried EVERYTHING
I have an old PC that I use as a server. It mostly is used for serving up Plex and family photos/videos - just three SATA drives attached for storage. The machine runs Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 installed ...
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Unable to access a Samba shared folder
I've been trying to make a local backup of all my family's photos and videos for easy access due to how sluggish Dropbox has become. When I set up the Samba shared folder this showed up:
What's worse,...
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How to share directory in Ubuntu22.04 for Windows users
I have a Windows domain LAN + some Ubuntu 22.04.
I'd like to share Ubuntu folder to make it accessible to Everyone from Windows domain.
I have made this recommendation:
https://www.debugpoint.com/...
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How to auto login into a samba share?
I have two Ubuntu computers. The first is setup as a NAS, samba installed and all share folders set. Everything works great.
I also have my Ubuntu work computer. When I open up my Folder>Other ...
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can not share a folder between ubuntu 22.04 and windows 11,
I am trying to share a folder between Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11.
The folder that I am trying to share is the public folder inside my home directory.
I can see that in Ubuntu the shared logo (the ...
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Samba connection to $HOME downloading lots
I have a CIFS drive mounted in fstab to a dir in my HOME. Its a Windows system on the other side. I noticed today that conky is displaying a constant 2-4 MBps download, and a smaller but constant ...
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Options for migrating Windows 2012 R2 DC to Ubuntu
I have a small Windows domain, with the PDC running on Windows 2012 R2. I am interested in retiring the Windows server and replacing it with a primary and backup DC's hosted on Linux VM's.
The ...
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SAMBA | Different network interface for specific directories
I've an Ubuntu server 22.04 with samba installed which has 2 physical ethernet connections. On that server I have multiple shared folders and I would like to have folders A, B & C available on ...
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trouble connecting a linux server to a windows client
How can I connect a Linux server to a Windows client. I've both operating systems already installed on VirtualBox — Ubuntu Server 22.04 and Windows 10 Enterprise. For the Linux server, I kept the ...
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Unable to join a windows PC to a Samba active directory domain
Summary; I am attempting to build an Ubuntu 22.04.03 samba domain controller as part of a very small domain. This is not for file-sharing.
Problem: I cannot get a Windows 10 PC to join the domain. ...
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Unable to access windows network share after upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04
It was working perfectly, now after upgrade I keep getting in syslog
Oct 23 11:56:04 acop gvfsd[6776]: Kerberos auth with 'acop@WORKGROUP' to access '192.168.1.2' not possible
I had to install and ...
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My Ubuntu 22.04 keeps running SMB1 protocol
I purchased a Synology DS723+ NAS (under DSM 7.2-64570).
I access it without any problem from a Huawei MateBook 14s running Ubuntu 22.04.
I can't do it, however, from an Acer Swift 5 also running ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 on which machine should I amend my samba smb.conf configuration file since all machines on network have one
I have found many useful articles referring to the smb.conf file to change the operation/characteristics of Samba on Ubuntu 20.04 - but none specify on which machine.
Common sense would say just the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 All files transfered to shared folder are locked with user = nobody and group = none
I have a very simple, purely Ubuntu 22.04 network - no mixed OS - No Windows. 2 identical laptops, Laptop A has a shared folder which I access from Laptop B. The username and password on both machines ...
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Cifs mounting doesnt work
pretty complicated problem, i did what i can and i also had a more versed person look at it but doesnt seem to bair any fruits.
On both machines we cannot mount our network share with cifs, on other ...
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Make file manager mounts of smb shares permanent
Is there a sequence of steps in kubuntu GUI to make mounted smb shares from other PC on same home network permanent?
Yes, I can edit fstab.
But that's not the question. In MSFT OS in file explorer I ...
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how to set a static ip address for a server
I have file server that uses Samba. I connect to it through VPN and SSH. Sometimes, the server's IP address changes, and I can't access my files or SSH into it. I want to set a fixed IP address, but I ...
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Help connecting to my samba server from windows!
I'm very new to Linux so please bear with me here. I set up a Samba server on my LAN and now I'm trying to connect to it from my Windows desktop. I can see the server in my file explorer under ...
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How to debug failing CIFS connection?
Connection to Samba share fails with one specific ubuntu instance/device alone - any ideas what i could check on top would be highly welcome.
sudo dmesg:
[ 1214.845174] CIFS: Attempting to ...
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Data amount when copying is much greater than what actually is (22.04)
I mainly use Ubuntu to copy data from hard drives (via a dock) to a server. Strangely and recently, when copying, instead of showing the actual amount of data, "Preparing to Copy" shows that ...
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Windows 11 can't connect to Ubuntu samba shares?
I have problem to connect from Windows 11 to my sambashares on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTSbut to my sambashare on Linux raspberrypi 6.1.21-v8+ the connection works.
When I tested with Windows 10 I was able to ...
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Connecting to SMB 1.0 File Share
Running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
After this mornings update, I can no longer connect to an SMB 1.0 server (server is running Samba 3.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS).
The update was from Samba 2:4.15.13+dfsg-...
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Access Ubuntu Samba shared folder from outside VirtualBox
I installed Ubuntu Server 22.04 on VirtualBox with Windows 11 as host.
I set a "NAT" adapter in Virtualbox and forwarded the ports 80 and 443 from the host to the guest for an Apache server ...
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What does "enable" mean when adding a samba share user?
In this SO question, the asking person mentions the adding and then the editing of a samba user account.
Something like this:
$ sudo useradd --system --no-create-home --group=smb-group -s /bin/false ...
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Samba share folder cant access on windows: ask your administrator for permission
I have created a shared folder in Ubuntu and made 2 users i gave all the permissions in smb.cfg .
My windows machine can find the shared folder when i double click it it asks for credentials and on ...
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How to allow anonymous access to a shared directory?
I have Ubuntu 22.04 in Windows domain LAN.
My idea is: to create a shared folder which is accessible for any users from Windows without name/pwd dialogs.
I have installed Samba server, created a ...
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I need a way to edit/delete files from Windows on a Samba share
I copied a lot from one NTSF HDD to an NTSF SSD using rsync and since then everything is owned by root. Everything else is put there by bittorrent-nox. I want a way to allow my windows networked ...
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Samba's testparm returned error 1: Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Error loading services
Here is an image of error showing when creating share
Any one plz help me to resolve this isssue
Tried Bing & ChatGPT Nothing works
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How to redirect a printer from Windows to Ubuntu server from an external network?
I want to switch from Windows Server to Ubuntu server (to connect users from external network via RDP). Most of the tasks have been done, but the last problem is that the client when connecting via ...
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Winexe error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE executing script from Linux to Windows Server 2012
I've installed winexe on my linux machine. I want to use it to execute some script on a Windows Servre 2012. It doesn't work, the error is NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE.
I've followed this guide to install ...
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Samba share on Ubuntu server suddenly stopped showing content/files on Windows
I have 20 computers in my office network and all the computers run Windows 10 except one which is running Ubuntu. I have setup a samba share on that machine so that others can access the share drive ...
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mounting cifs gives error 115 but can ping and smbclient connects
I have a SMB fileshare that used to connect to a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS workstation but something in the local network config has changed and now I get mount error(115): Operation now in progress error. ...
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File sharing across local network
After a little bit of research, I managed to get machine #1 to share two drives over my local net, apparently using samba. All good so far. Machine #1 is running Ubuntu 23.04.
Machine #2 is running ...
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What would cause spontaneous default network changes and how to fix smb access?
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop install with 4x physical network interfaces. One interface connects to a larger network with access to file shares etc and the others connect to smaller networks to ...
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fstab error and parse error when sudo mount -a
I have made a network mount with password but get the error:
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 13 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 14 -- ignored
and here is my fstab with the ...
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Unable to access network share from ubuntu 23.04
I have a network drive that I can not access from ubuntu 23.04. When I try to connect to it via new server connection it just sits there with the loading icon and never fails or connects. I can ...
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Network share folder from Ubuntu 20.04 no longer appearing in Windows 10 file explorer
So yesterday, I managed to successfully set up and run Samba on my Ubuntu laptop so that I can easily access files on the external hard drive that I have connected to it from my Windows 10 desktop PC.
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How to connect to shared external drives on win11 machine
I have checked the referenced previous questions, but none seem to be my issue. I am using release 22.04, jammy-jellyfish.
I have a win11 machine with 8 external hard drives and 2 internal hard ...
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