I have a few conditions to meet with a new samba setup.I want to migrate a windows based share to a linux samba share. However this time the share is in the regular corporate LAN and I do not have the rights to add this samba server to the corporate windows domain.
I would like to know how I would properly mount my windows harddrives in my VM ( debian ) and share it with samba so that other users can access it without a password.
I'm going this way because I would like to access the folders on my mediacenter and with windows i had no luck at all to get this to work, now I've got it working but it keeps asking me for a username and password which is very ano
I'm running samba on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, I've some folders on samba share and created some user to access it, but suddenly some of the user are not able to access it for a certain time only.
For i.e:
There are 5 users as A,B,C,D,E and there are two folders in samba share name as "test" and "develop"
"test" doesn't have any user access password but "develop" has user access with password.
Hi,
I use Fed18 as webserver and in order to transfer file easily between development computer (windows 7) and webserver (fed18) i setup a samba folder sharing to /var/www/html/
for now, webserver is able to access to share folders via browsing network, however windows 7 client is not able.
as my windows 7 user doesn't have a user account on server, he's mapped with an existing one in sam
Hi,
I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have recently put together a media server, holding all my movies, running ubuntu 12.04.
After following tutorials and forums i can successfully ping, by hostname and ip, my windows desktop box and my media server ubuntu box fine, and vice versa.
I have configured samba to set up a share called Movies on my media server.
I have the latest version of Samba, latest Ubuntu build, and have enabled Samba and decided to share 2 folders from my home folder on the linux box. I chose to not allow guest access and to require a password to login. The shared folders do show up on my XP box, but when I click on them and it prompts me for a username and password, the login info entered doesn't work.
I am a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have recently put together a media server, holding all my movies, running ubuntu 12.04.
After following tutorials and forums i can successfully ping, by hostname and ip, my windows desktop box and my media server ubuntu box fine, and vice versa.
I have configured samba to set up a share called Movies on my media server.
I am running Ubuntu netbook remix 10.04 with samba installed and trying to share to a windows 7 machine...
I have added the win 7 username and password to samba, and also added a user with the same un & pw to the ubuntu users.
When i browse to map a network drive in win 7, I can see the folder, but the error I get states that the folder exists but I don't have permission.
Can anybody help?
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I have a RHEL 5 linux box running SAMBA. I want to create a fileshare on linux machine to all other machines. My client machines are Windows XP and Vista.
I create an user account test on samba server using Webmin with default options. I didn't change anything. Just adding user name and password.
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