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CIFS is a virtual file system in use by samba, and Windows servers to share files between different system.

CIFS is a virtual file system in use by Samba and Windows (2000 and later) servers to share files between different systems. It supports locks, links, and other extended attributes.

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Mount cifs Network Drive: write permissions and chown

I have access to a cifs network drive. When I mount it under my OSX machine, I can read and write from and to it. When I mount the drive in ubuntu, using: sudo mount -t cifs -o username=${USER},password=${PASSWORD} //server-address/folder…
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CIFS vs SAMBA, What are the differences

What are the differences between CIFS and SAMBA? When would you use one over the other? Are there any performance differences between the two?
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mount -t cifs: "Operation not supported", but can connect via smbclient

After sysadmin replaced the NAS, I can no longer mount the network share with sudo mount -t cifs //netgear.local/public /media/mountY -o uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,username="adam",password="password" Both NAS are linux-based, one with Samba 3.5.15…
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Mounting cifs: "Operation not supported"

Unlike the similar question, I cannot even connect with smbclient. The samba share works fine in windows and automagically works, but in Linux I can't mount it at all and the error message is cryptic at best. Here is my samba.conf: [global] dos…
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Samba: mount error: could not resolve address for XXX: Unknown error

I've read several guides on mounting samba shares, but no luck yet. I'm able to "login" to my samba share with the following command: smbclient //vvlaptop/Documents It asks for password, but there is no password so I just press Enter. It then…
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Make Linux write to network filesystem concurrently with local disk reads

Summary How can you configure Linux to both read from a local disk/filesystem and write to a network share at the same time, as opposed to reading while no data is going over the network, then sending that data over the network while the local disk…
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Why are files in a smbfs mounted share created with executable bit set?

I mounted a samba share using the smbmount command: $ sudo smbmount \\\\foo\\bar /mnt/bar -o user=tom When I create new files, they get created with the executable bit set for owner, group and world. For e.g. $ touch hello.txt $ ls -la…
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mount error : cifs filesystem not supported by the system

Sometime ago I used to mount shared folders from my windows computer using the command : sudo mount.cifs //computer/folder /mnt -o username=user However now it bugs and yields : mount error : cifs filesystem not supported by the system…
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Systemd automount vs autofs

I recently found that (among others) network shares can be automatically mounted on access. In Ubuntu there are two options either using autofs or the automount feature of systemd. Could perhaps someone tell me what the differences (apart from…
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Can you add entries to fstab with a GUI in ubuntu?

I am sick of always having to google for the process of adding a drive to the fstab using text editor. Is there a way to add say a CIFS samba share to the fstab with a Ubuntu GUI? Like Windows' map network path functionality.
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mount error(115): Operation now in progress

I'm having an issue mounting a shared NAS drive that is hosted on a Windows 2000 server. This is a drive that I'm certain I have access to, and I frequently access it from a Windows 7 machine and a Windows Server 2008 machine. Now, I'm attempting to…
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How to deal with freezes caused by autofs after network disconnect

I mount four servers (3 via cifs, 1 via sshfs) using autofs. auto.master /- /etc/auto.all --timeout=60 --ghost auto.all /mnt \ /server1 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials.txt,uid=1000,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,users…
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mount.cifs error(2): No such file or directory when using a prefixpath

I tried this command: mount -t cifs //server/share/directory /mnt/directory -o credentials=/path/to/cifs.credentials --verbose Response is: mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=,unc=\\server…
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Allow regular user to use mount without SUDO or FSTAB

Our desktop workstations are linux. Each user uses Active Directory to authenticate. Mount does not automatically use the users PAM credentials to authenticate against a remote mount point - you must use either a credentials file or type in your…
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CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -95

Trying to mount a shared drive at work via an /etc/fstab entry. I can mount two of the three possible network shares with the following... //SHAREDDATA02/WORK1 /mnt/work1 cifs …
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