Questions related to samba4 a file server with ability to act as an active directory domain controller.
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Connect Windows 10 to samba share with specific linux user
I have a directory on my Ubuntu 14 box that I'd like to connect to via my Windows 10 box. I've created a new Samba user, set the new user's password, and verified that the new user has the proper ...
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Guide to setup Samba fileserver as domain member
I'm trying to set up a Samba AD DC en Samba file server to replace our aging Windows 2008R2 server.
So far I've setup 2 DC's using the guide here:
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Samba Winbindd Failing Everyday
Everyday morning on my domain controller running samba 4.7.6-ubuntu winbind fails, If I try to run the command wbinfo -u (to list all users) I get the error
could not obtain winbind interface ...
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samba Ubuntu client slow, Windows client fast
I have a ubuntu 20.04 server with default samba installation, and a ubuntu 20.04 client mounting the share with:
// /home/user1/share cifs username=user2,noauto,rw,users 0 0
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Samba 4 DNS not syncing with Windows DNS
I set up a couple of months ago a Samba 4 AD DC and in the beginning it seemed to be working good but now I am receiving that Samba 4 DNS is not resolving external DNS requests line cnn.com. It seems ...
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GroupDel Samba Share doesn't work
i tried deleting sambashare group with the following command groupdel sambashare
and i later got Permission denied and cannot lock /etc/group; try again later can someone help me?
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i tried disabling my remote session with this command
sudo systemctl disable xrdp $ sudo systemctl stop xrdp sudo apt purge xrdp sudo apt purge xserver-xorg-core sudo apt purge xserver-xorg-input-all sudo apt purge xorgxrdp
then i had to enter my ...
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Troubleshooting Access Denied on SAMBA
I'm new to SAMBA, but have set up a SAMBA server on an Ubuntu 20.04 desktop, but consistently get Access Denied, when trying to map any SAMBA share from my Windows 11 laptop. How do I troubleshoot ...
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Samba 4.13.14-Ubuntu panics when a connected macOS client reboots
Just did a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 21.10 then Samba 4.13.14-Ubuntu via:
sudo apt install samba avahi-daemon
Whenever a macOS client connected to Samba reboots, I get the following email:
The ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Unattended Samba upgrade broke our setup
We are using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on some servers, including a Samba Active Directory DC and a Samba File Server using winbind authentication.
On Nov 12th, an unattended upgrade (related to USN-5142-1) ...
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Samba server stopped working after changed hd [solved]
I've had a samba server working along with 7 PC-s, 4 windows 10 and 3 ubuntu without a problem (7 different users, 7 different folders - of which one had multiples valid users.
Someday, my hd stopped ...
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Unable to join Samba ad domain in Windows Client- "DNS name does not exist."
I have installed samba ad in ubuntu 18.04 cloud server and dns records available in that server
The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to ...
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glusterfs CTDB Samba - Windows permissions ACLs
I have a testsetup consisting of two (three) nodes, 1 brick and a testshare.
The files are replicating and I see the files in every node. I set up CTDB and added the cluster to the Active Directory. ...
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Samba share setting permissions on Windows fails
I have set up a samba4 ADC by the TecMint tutorial, Create a Shared Directory on Samba AD DC and Map to Windows/Linux Clients – Part 7, on Ubuntu 16.04.
It works well but when coming to configure the ...
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Is “obey pam restrictions” still supposed to work in Samba 4 (Ubuntu 20.04)?
This is a re-run of this question I asked two weeks ago, which was closed because it was related to an EOL Ubuntu version.
I did another install, this time on Ubuntu Server 20.04LTS, with exactly the ...