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The Common Internet File System (CIFS), also known as Server Message Block (SMB), is a network protocol whose most common use is sharing files on a Local Area Network (LAN).

The Common Internet File System (CIFS), also known as Server Message Block (SMB), is a network protocol whose most common use is sharing files on a Local Area Network (LAN).

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Unable to mount CIFS on Raspberry Pi, because CIFS is not listed in /proc/filesystem (and its module can't be found)

I'm trying to mount some CIFS shares on my raspberry pi. I've done it before but now I'm stuck at this: pi@raspberrypi-server:~ $ sudo mount -a mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system mount error(19): No such device Refer to the…
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Allowing Windows Server 2012 R2 access to directory on AIX 7.1

we have two AIX servers, Live and Test. On our live server, I am able to add an entry into smb.conf to allow a directory to be shared across a Windows network as shown in the extract below, displaying the ImportExport shared folder in…
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Mounting a Windows hidden share in /etc/fstab. How do I escape the $

If I want to mount a Windows hidden share to my Ubuntu filesystem, I do this and it works just fine: mount –t cifs –o username=root,password=rootpassword,uid=www-data,gid=www-data //domain/dir\$ /mnt/dir But when I try to make an entry into…
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Workaround or alternative to Samba on a non-Linux machine

This territory Is new to me, I am looking to implement Samba in a non Linux machine. From what I read I can see that Samba is only be applied on Linux machines. Is there any workaround to have Samba/SMB working on another operating system. Perhaps…
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Strange file permissions for cifs mounted folder

I have a folder on my windows machine which is mounted to my linux machine using cifs. Today when accessing that folder I was denied access. When I checked file permissions I found out that it was showing very strange permissions, username, size and…
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Samba, CIFS and Deleting Files

So I've got a Samba share located on server A. I have that share mounted to two other servers, B and C. The idea is that B and C need to write temporary files to a single location so that multiple background processing jobs (also running on B and…
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mount - samba with CentOS 7

I want to share a Windows directory which is Sys64 in CentOS. I install cifs-utils in CentOS 7 and I run the command: mount.cifs //ip/Sys64 share -o user=hostname,password=hostname_password I get the following message: mount error(112): Host is…
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Problems with mount cifs

It is a couple of days I'm struggling in mounting a samba shared directory in Ubuntu 16. I read all the relative posts but still cannot find a solution. Here is the command I use: e sudo mount -vt cifs -o username=sdea,sec=ntlmssp,vers=1.0…
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