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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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Access network Samba share from Pi client

I've been using my PC to access the files on RPi, using Samba Server on RPi. But, Is there any way I could open Samba Connections on Pi? Like browsing Windows PC Samba Files on RPi?
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How to change permissions on external hard-drive connected to Raspberry?

I am following this tutorial to create Samba Share on my Raspberry Pi Zero. My problem is at this step: "Make sure your user is the owner of the path you are trying to share via Samba sudo chown -R pi:pi /path/to/share" Error message: Operation not…
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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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Raspberry Pi NAS Permissions

This has been asked before (I could link to 3 other posts I've seen here), but none of them have been answered. I've followed this tutorial on how to set up a NAS using Samba with a Raspberry Pi. Everything works okay, the drive and files show up, I…
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Ridicoulus File Server performance

I've setup a file server using my new PI, and I'm very disappointed about the performance. I have attached by USB 2.0 2.5" HDD with an USB hub, formatted using NTFS, and mounted automatically. I had installed samba server and setup the share. I can…
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samba server - share root

I've set up samba on raspbian Jessie, and I am able to get to the "pi" user's folder from a windows box. I want to be able to get to the /etc/ directory from windows because I want to edit conf files in the warm bosom of notepad instead of using…
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Can't edit/copy files with Samba on Raspberry Pi 2

I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 2 model B, and I installed OpenElec which seems to work as expected, with an external HD plugged in USB. During the setup wizard I enabled Samba, and now I can connect via Finder (OS X 10.11 El Captain) with command…
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Raspberry Pi with external USB drive attached as SMB share: share disappears

I'm new to Raspberry Pi, but I bought a Pi with Kodi/OpenElec pre-installed. I attached an external USB hard drive to it, and set it up to expose that as an SMB network share. I'm using Windows on my laptop and I want to create a backup to this…
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Cannot reach Internet after assigning fixed IP address in dhcpcd.conf

Hardware: Pi 2 OS: Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit No firewall. Running over ethernet (no WiFi card) I am following a tutorial to set up a Pi as a file server for home. For this, I need to install Samba. Whenever I run sudo apt-get install samba…
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Pi 3 nextcloud server and NAS

Is it possible to use something like dietpi, install nextcloud as well as have a NAS in the same thing accessing the same files? What I would like is a system where I can access the NAS via my Linux or windows machines through something like samba…
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Access raspberry pi files through Samba or web browser without a router

I have just got my first Raspberry Pi, (3 Model B+) and am having so much fun with it. My first project is a simple wildlife camera that takes pictures using a simple python script to detect motion. It works great and I have since updated it to also…
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How to access a Samba shared folder from a Pi

In my home network I have an Ubuntu machine that is running Samba server. My Windows machine is easily able to browse through the folders after providing a username and password. However when I try to run smb://server from my Raspberry Pi 2 it is…
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Unable to make write only smb share

I have the home folder of my Raspberry Pi B+ shared via SMB working fine. Now i'm trying to make a public, write only folder: i edited the configuration like so but it doesn't seem to work. I can't write anything to that…
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How to automatically mount a samba drive on boot?

I have this in my /etc/fstab //192.168.1.1/S_Drive /mnt/readyshare cifs sec=ntlmv2,username=XXXX,password=XXXXX,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 everytime I reboot the pi2, it says [FAILED] failed to mount /mnt/readyshare Here is the log…
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