Questions tagged [server-message-block]

Question 1

I have a system running MacOS 26.0.1. This is my only Mac on the network. There are several servers - most of which are Ubuntu 24.04 - running SMB. I can connect to any of these servers. But only ...

Question 2

I recently migrated from a 2019 file server to a 2022 OS. Users began experiencing slowness in Excel files. I did not use the same hostname and IP address as the old file server. I am using a new ...

Question 3

Estoy usando Windows Server 2022 y quiero compartir una carpeta en la red para que otros usuarios puedan acceder. Hice clic en “Compartir” pero los demás no pueden ver ni abrir la carpeta. ¿Alguien me ...

Question 4

I am trying to use an Ubuntu Samba SMB share as a MacOS X Time Machine backup volume. The SMB mount shows up on the desktop but the Time Machine configuration does not show the volume as a possible ...

Question 5

I have a WSFC file server cluster set up (WS 2025). There is a client access point configured: ClientsGoHere.mydomain.com When I browse to \\ClientsGoHere in Windows Explorer, I'm greeted with the ...

Question 6

I cannot access NAS via SMB shares on a Samba share on a Raspberry pi from on one Windows 11 Pro 23H1 laptop. All other Windows and Chromebook hosts are able to access shares without issue. On the ...

Question 7

Background I inherited a group of Windows Server 2019 servers recently. The setup is...not ideal. They are all part of a workgroup, myworkgroup, but there's no domain involved. Each has their own ...

Question 8

I want to create fileshares to serve to our windows clients. We are currently working with an old samba server which wasn’t set up properly by the previous IT guy (e.g. users loosing access to ...

Question 9

I need to map a printer which is being shared by a Windows 11 client onto a Windows Server 2022 machine. The server is able to see the UNC path of the printer in File Explorer, but trying to connect ...

Question 10

I am using NixOS 24.11 and the path of the SMB share is an SSHFS mount point. The following configuration works, I can connect, create, modify, and delete files, but the share does not appear as a ...

Question 11

Is it possible to enable SMB compression feature for IPC$ share? I'm developing a SMB proxy that will handle SMB traffic for IPC$ share, so I want to know if I should support compression feature. It ...

Question 12

I have an Asustor NAS (FS6706T) that is primarily a local media-sharing device. I have multiple machines that should access the shared folders. Currently, I must login "Enter Network Credentials&...

Question 13

Experimenting using some old equipment to serve a 8 bay RAID over 10gbe network, using a 2019 MacPro as a server. This unit is currently running Monterey. Initial testing yields good results to a ...

Question 14

I am trying to run TallyPrime on Linux with Wine and it works very well for a single user. My client has a setup with Citrix on Windows Server where multiple users use app streaming and run multiple ...

Question 15

I trying to resolve an issue with SMB and RSS on my Windows 10 Pro. I try to figure out how SMB detects if NIC supports RSS and uses Multichannel to decrease CPU single-core utilization. I have a case ...

Question 16

I've noticed that our Windows Clients from remote sites cause a lot of SMB traffic to our primary domain controller at our main site. Every location has its own domain controller and "Active ...

Question 17

We use proprietary client/server software that includes a file browser that displays the file structure of an SMB share. The content is read server-side, and presented to the user in a browser window ...

Question 18

Sometimes in Finder on Mac OSX users cannot see some files. Which files are not visible seems random. It doesn't depend on the version of Mac OSX, and doesn't depend on the version of SMB. I have ...

Question 19

I am trying to mount a Windows 11 share on Ubuntu Linux, version 24.04, both desktop and server edition, with no success. I tried the following command: mount -t cifs -o user=guest,password= //host/...

Question 20

We have two a two node Windows Failover Cluster. One resource is a folder that is mounted on a Windows disk1.1. Disk 1 has a file share created on the cluster. We are trying to create another file ...

Question 21

We have Windows XP workstations that are used to exchange data with other computers on the network. USB media isn't an option. Equipment on both ends of the link expect a Windows share (SMB). For ...

Question 22

I am working in a company that uses a Windows AD. We have a TrueNAS setup with some SMB shares that work well under Windows, but I don't really understand how to properly set them up under Ubuntu. So ...

Question 23

I need to implement virtual SMB UNC mapping in a Windows user session. Similar to what "NET USE H: \\realhost\share" command does, but redirect "\\virtualhost\share" to "\\...

Question 24

I have an Azure Files premium account which I setup SMB multichannel. I setup a test folder with 50,000 very small files. If I test with a single file at a remote IPSEC connected site I get around 5-...

Question 25

I have two physical copies of Windows Server 2022 running, both machines have firewalls completely disabled. I have enabled file and folder sharing on both machines on the domain, private and public ...

Question 26

Create a share D:\Shares\DATA_AUTH_TEST. Make sure ABE is enabled, DOMAIN USERS is granted read permission. Create a folder in D:\Shares\DATA_AUTH_TEST\USER1, Disable inheritance, grant full control ...

Question 27

I have a Windows Server 2016 server that is not listening on port 445. The Server service is running and the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanServer\Parameters registry entry ...

Question 28

I am preparing to migrate files from a Windows Server 2016 server to a new Windows Server 2022 server. There is a complicated set of NTFS and Share permissions that I need to replicate. I have found ...

Question 29

I have a requirement to disable the Windows DNS Cache on a new Windows Server 2022 RDS VM. Trying to access a SMB share hosted on a Windows Server 2022 file server, all my servers are joined to a AD ...

Question 30

We have an TrueNAS System running TrueNAS-13.0-U5.3. It is bound to Active Directory and used solely for SMB file sharing. Recently there have been periodic event where SMB service quality is degraded ...

Question 31

I´m looking for a Web-Frontend to browse, download and upload files exported from another Server via SMB. It has to offer ldap/AD-login for Users and honor the permissions from the Share. I know most ...

Question 32

I'm attempting to map a SMB share on an Isilon server in windows 10. I have Ubuntu and Windows computers on the same network, can mount the SMB fine on the Ubuntu machine. But when trying windows ...

Question 33

I setup Samba on a Ubuntu 22.02 server. I cannot access the shared with Windows but I can with Linux. Ports 139 and 445 are open and listening on loopback and lan interface. I even made the share ...

Question 34

I have a Wireguard site-to-site VPN that connects successfully. I can ping the remote Samba server using it's IP address 192.168.30.1 I cannot access a share over the VPN tunnel using its IP address \...

Question 35

I am having trouble with 2 PC of my domain, both on Windows 10 1909, which I'll call "01" and "02", using a domain service account (called "s_automate" to connect to a ...

Question 36

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 [...

Question 37

I have two Linux NFS servers on two locations (two different networks), each providing at least one NFS share. Those servers are connected through VPN and each other NFS is mounted to folder on each ...

Question 38

I am getting aboard my family businesses and every thing is made with Microsoft. I see that 90% of the processes can be done with free software, and in this case, file sharing. My father always ...

Question 39

I am trying to connect a smb remote storage to my debian server and use the available space on the local disk as a cache using FS-Cache for CIFS. I have already tried the following code but it doesn't ...

Question 40

I have two servers with twin RDMA enabled 25GbE NICs installed. For the time being, during testing, they are direct connected... no switch between them. If I just make a single SFP28 connection ...

Question 41

I've got a DFS folder: \\my.domain\Storage$ I'd like to map it to a particular Windows Server Core machine using the New-SmbGlobalMapping PowerShell command using specific credentials. Alas, when I ...

Question 42

I am having some trouble figuring out what some SMB requests to an AutoRun.inf file are. My situation is this, i have a fileserver Windows Server 2016, and all my workstations mount a shared drive ...

Question 43

I have created a shared folder in QNAP TS-433. I can mount the SMB share on a Windows client. I am unable to mount the SMB share on Linux (Centos 6.8). mount -t cifs -o ver=3.0,user=test //172.17.134....

Question 44

I've one Debian 11 Server which has multiple smb-shares under /samba/. Now I'd like to run multiple instances of a file synchronisation software called Syncthing inside docker containers on this ...

Question 45

I'm trying to set up a somewhat complex access scenario for a shared folder (domain-joined Windows Server 2022) and I'm having some really weird things happen. I've created 3 groups in AD: Top Test ...

Question 46

I'm trying to set up a Windows 2019 system as an SMB server to work with third-party software on an external, non-Windows system that uses Kerberos to authenticate to the SMB server. This SMB server ...

Question 47

I have a multi VM Windows (Server 2019) solution, hosted in a datacentre, with services which require a Redis cache. Due to security concerns, the Windows fork of Redis is not allowable. Therefore, I ...

Question 48

For the purpose of this question, I have a server called server1 hosting the samba network share share1 on my local network. User1 can access this share with read and write permissions. I'm looking to ...

Question 49

Is there any way to share file locks between samba(smbd) and nfs(-kernel-server)? I assume that this is hard to impossible on most linux distributions. The regular smb/nfs implementations have no way ...

Question 50

What does it mean to not get an SMB Negotiate Protocol Response from server? Unable to mount fileshare drive (a third-party fileshare outside Azure). The architecture is similar to this one: https://...