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Questions tagged [samba]

a free software implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, providing file and print services for Microsoft Windows clients.

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Samba: How to Disable LAN Samba Server Discovery

I am trying to hide my Samba server from my LAN completely but am unable to do so. I managed to hide the folders but not the server itself. What I mean is this, when I open Finder on my Mac there is a list of Shared networks, my Raspberry Pi is…
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What vulnerabilities, if any, are inherit to an open samba share on a home LAN?

In /etc/samba/smb.conf I have Writable=yes Browsable=yes This allows pretty much open access to that folder. In a home network, where the pi is connected to a home router. Is this any danger. I've no port forwarding. Router UPnP is off. Router…
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Assigning write permissions to a group

I have setup Samba on Pi and I have added the users to the sambashare group in /etc/group. I want to assign read and write permissions to the users in this group so that they can create new files and modify it in using Samba client Is there any way…
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Setting the max size visble for Time Machine shares

I have a quick question on a time machine share that I've set up. I am wondering how to set the max size for a time machine share in the smb.conf file. Shown below is the smb.conf file I have at the moment [general] #added at the end f general…
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Cannot access Samba USB share but can access folder share

Why can I access a Samba folder share on Windows 10 but not a USB drive share? I have a samba share to a folder on my pi. I can access it from Windows. But when I try to connect to a USB device (rather than a folder) from windows I get errors. This…
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Samba not authenticating

Okay, so I have been going at this for over two hours and on the verge of giving up. I cannot for the life of me get Windows to authenticate with Samba. I either get "Username or Password incorrect" or "Access is Denied". I have ran the command sudo…
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Pi Shows Different Files on USB HD than Windows

I setup my raspberry PI with a SAMBA share loosely following the instructions here. After setting up everything, installing SAMBA, NTFS, and all, I was able to use everything last night with no problems. This morning, I woke up and all the shares…
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Bad performance transfer file with samba

I have made a torrent client/file server with raspberry pi 2, using a 16 GB SD card class 10 for raspbian and a 16 GB USB to store files that i transferred with samba. Pi is connected with LAN cable with the speed of 680 KB/sec. During the…
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RPi freezes during boot (bind9 samba)

My Raspberry Pi freezes while booting. I am using it for local DNS server (bind9), NAS, media Library (DLNA, UPNP) etc. I've lately set up a WiFi Hotspot (Access Point), but today, after i recognised my Raspberry has no internet connection (SSH…
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SMB performance incredibly slow

I've recently hooked up an ext4 formatted external USB3.0 harddrive to my Raspberri PI 4 (USB3.0 slot) and shared it in my network using Samba. The first upload to the drive went smoothly, but every upload afterwards has been at a terribly low…
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Improve samba speed transfer

I've just setup a samba server on an old RPI 1. I've mounted a external hard drive, run some tests and got about 20 MB/s speed. Then did the same thing for my ehternet setup, got around 3,5 MB/s speed between the samba server and my laptop. Then I…
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Unable to access mounted USB drive on samba server

I have a server running Raspbian OS. I use it as both a NAS samba server and as a Jellyfin media server. Jellyfin I have used the following settings to make the media files accessible by Jellyfin /etc/group: multimedia:x:1001:pi,jellyfin /etc/fstab:…
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smbd.service fails to start on readonly file system

I have a Pi setup where the root file system has been made read-only to avoid corruption of the OS due to abrupt power loss/improper shutdown, using the following script (original here): #!/bin/bash # CREDIT TO THESE TUTORIALS: #…
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Raspberry Pi does not show up in workgroup, samba is running, user added

I have followed the following guide to setting up a network accessible external HDD on my pi. I installed both samba and samba-common-bin. I entered the formatted the external drive and mounted it just as in the guide. I edited the samba config file…
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Mounted external drive not accessible via windows

OK So I have tried to set up a network drive: Here is what I appended to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file [EXTERNAL] comment = Toshiba 1TB Drive browseable = yes path = /EXT_TOSH_1TB writeable = Yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 browseable =…
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