Unable to see freenas from file browser on windows network?
I have setup a FreeNas server and I can connect to it using a Windows XP machine. When I try to connect to the freenas server from Fedora 12 I get the following message “unable to mount location – failed to retrieve share list from server”. I have verified SAMABA is running and I can [...]

Answer Question   |  November 16, 2012  3:27 AM
Samba, Windows XP

Windows 7 access control in Samba/LDAP Domain
Hi, We are a Samba/LDAP domain with primarily Windows 7 clients. Our end user policy is a little laxed and recently we have had some users who are…. taking advantage of the access to the computer that they have. We do not have Active Directory!!!! We would like to look at ways to shut out [...]

Answer Question   |  June 12, 2012  7:08 PM
LDAP, Linux, Samba, Windows 7

Dos Printing problem
On Linux (SuSE), there is a vb based program (exe, via WINE) that generates some reports in text format like Notepad or Dos Edit. and the same time it prints the outputs at run time. There is a DMP attached with linux (Server) and no other printers are there. The client is XP and there [...]

Answer Question   |  January 31, 2011  9:53 AM
DOS program, Samba, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Printing, Windows XP

Will Samba allow a Linux server to act as a domain controller in an Active Directory environment?
We are replacing a Windows 2003 server in facility that is connected to our network and main site with a point to point T1. It currently is a domain controller in an Active Directory. Will the newest version of Samba allow me to replace this computer with a Linux version? Can it act as a [...]

Answer Question   |  October 21, 2009  7:58 PM
Active Directory, Domain Controller Migration, Linux, Samba

Windows Firewall blocks Samba requests from Mac OS X
I have a server that is utilizing Windows Firewall, and I find myself unable to make a Samba connection from a Mac running OS X Leopard. I confirmed that the server (running Windows 2003 Server with all updates) can be reached if I turn off Windows Firewall. This leaves a question of what ports are [...]

Answer Question   |  July 24, 2008  2:54 PM
Firewalls, Leopard, Mac, Samba, Windows, Windows Server 2003

Dot Net File rights on general file servers
We are writing a new application based around the dot net lucene search engine. When it runs on the local hard drive it has full-trust rights and it can open index files on the server. When it runs with the search.exe and the lucene.net.dll on the remote SAMBA file server, it fails to be able [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2008  12:35 AM
.NET, .NET development, Client/Server, Samba

Trouble copying large files to NAS – very slow, and often fails
Hi all, I’m not an IT expert sadly, but am nevertheless lumbered with trying to manage our small company’s half a dozen PCs networked over wired and wireless LAN. A couple of weeks ago one of them (the newest one, less than two weeks out of warranty!) had a massive hard disk failure and all [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  3:37 PM
Backup, File transfers, NAS, NTFS, Samba

Samba Folder Access
I want to allow permission to a specific folder, the scenario is: A) I open exchange server with samba as the domain controller B) I access via windows xp like: //servername/foldername My question is, how can I allow five users (full permission), groups (read only). Kindly tell me what steps i need to take?

Answer Question   |  April 22, 2011  3:49 PM
Network security, Samba, User Permissions

OpenAFS – Experience
I work for a company that has approx 150 users, 100 of those are in 8 offices divided pretty evenly, the rest are at home. I am looking at setting up OpenAFS (www.openafs.org) for filesharing. The home users would use the windows client and office users would connect to a Samba/OpenAFS bridge. Does anyone have [...]

Answer Question   |  April 22, 2011  2:36 PM
Linux, OpenAFS, Samba