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Sync a SharePoint to a network folder
Is there a way to sync a SharePoint folder with a folder on my entreprise network?
The folder is very large and would take too much place on my computer's C disk.
I need to have a local(local network) ...
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How can I get a computer to show the same shares when connecting to its IP address that appear when connecting to the name?
On a workgroup Windows network if I ping server it correctly returns 10.47.20.2.
If I browse for \\server (right click on windows icon, run and type in \\server) it only shows one folder (the folder ...
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TCP capture show different user when attempting SMB connection
I'm attempting to map a SMB share on an Isilon server in windows 10. I have Ubuntu and Windows computers on the same network, can mount the SMB fine on the Ubuntu machine. But when trying windows ...
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Restore Previous Versions dialog unable to open drop-down menu under "Open" and "Restore"
We have a Windows Server 2019 box that is hosting some file shares. We also have Previous Versions enabled with a default (for now) schedule for self-service file restore.
When people open the ...
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Emulate local directory as network drive
Is there a way to map a local directory in Windows 10 as a network drive? I want to map C:\datastore as if it were \\datastore . Although there is plenty of information on mapping a network drive to ...
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Company Servers Unable to Communicate Between One Another (On Same Network)
I want to make sure and provide as much detail as possible to try to get this resolved or at the very least, figured out. If you need more information, please let me know and I will happily provide it....
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Samba share suddenly stopped showing on Windows
I have 20 computers in my office network and all the computers run windows10 except one which is running Ubuntu. I have setup a samba share on that machine so that others can access the share drive ...
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Grant local impersonation user permission to share
We have a domain connected server (Windows Server 2016) named STORAGE. The server has a local "impersonation" user created by our Autodesk software called AutodeskVault. This user is only a ...
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How to change links from \\myserver-old\sharedfolder back to \\myserver\\sharedfolder?
We replaced an old server with shared folder with a new server.
We had a shared folders on server with network name \\myserver
Admin renamed it to \\myserver-old (not sure what method he used), and ...
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Accessing Windows file server by alias name
What could be the possible problems with accessing a Windows file server shares using a DNS CNAME instead of the actual computer name? The file server is joined to an Active Directory domain, but is ...
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Trouble debugging user access to Windows SMB shares
I am having trouble with 2 PC of my domain, both on Windows 10 1909, which I'll call "01" and "02", using a domain service account (called "s_automate" to connect to a ...
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transfer file from Unix to a writeable Windows share, if I don't have direct login rights to the latter
I'm an sa on Unix side, and there is a writeable Windows share, which I can access from my desktop using an AD service account.
How can I batch a file transfer from Unix over to that mount (it's not ...
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I'm trying to get Windows explorer to show non Windows based computers in the Network folder
For some reason my Windows machine has stopped showing non-Windows computers in the Network folder. It's Windows 10 22H2 19045. It does show other Windows computers. I can set up shares to folders in ...
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How to create a non-modifiable structure of shared folders on NTFS?
I am in the process of finding a suitable solution of the following.
I have a Windows Server 2013 share with a set of shared folders. This share has a central folder (say Shares) and a set of ...
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How to nest & share multiple ZFS pools over Samba to multiple users
I have the following ZFS structure:
% sudo zfs list 16:03:46
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
zpool1 ...
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Windows test network folder permissions for another account
How to test that an account other than login account has access to a network folder ?
Here's an example :
I'm logged in as steves but I need to test if joej has access to :
\\contoso\dept\finance\...
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Connect a Linux directory to Windows
At work I am trying to figure out how I can connect a Linux shared directory (Samba) to Windows Servers. We have files stored on this Linux server that we try to access from a dotNET application on a ...
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SMB Connection to Server fails with "The Network path was not found", SMB attempts to connect over HTTP
Have an issue where one spesific user is unable to connect to any SMB shares on any Windows Servers, they are not in the same domain, but there's Trust between the domains, and their user has the ...
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Find (apparently) open files from disconnect network share?
Trying to disconnect a mapped network drive, I get the below error:
Error:
You currently have files open on X: (connected to \x.x.x.x\Share). If you don't close the files before disconnecting from ...
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Single Windows 10 Pro Machine can't access network shares [closed]
I have a home network, with a ZyXel NAS drive. On this network, 2 Windows 10 PCs can access various shares, including on the NAS. But one Windows 10 Pro PC, cannot access any network shares.
If I ...
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(Win Server 2019) Slow Read/Write network shared files using SMB protocol
I have a running Windows Server 2019 used as a File Server.
He is having a problem: When reading/writing files via network share (SMB Protocol) the request takes a long time to complete...
This is ...
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Attach network disk as direct
Is where way to attach network disk as direct without creating VHD etc? I want to connect drive directly from one computer to other by network by like iSCSI but without creating VHD.
Not acceptable:
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Reliablely map network drive on Windows machine remotely from Linux machine
Background
Fairly new to networking. I have two machines. One is a Linux machine running Debian (Computer A), the other is a Windows machine (Computer B). On the Linux machine is a Samba share and ...
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What are the best methods to share files among 2 different VM
What are the best methods to automate the exchange files between 2 servers VM on the same LAN on the cloud?
A VM is windows server and B VM is CentOS Linux OS, the direction path is Windows Server Dir ...
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Is it possible to allow users to see only the files/folders they have created in a windows (server 2016 ) shared folder?
a shared folder has been created z://networkshare/workfolder/
user1 has created a file file1.doc and saved to z: drive
user2 has created a file file2.doc and saved to z: drive
Currently both users can ...
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Share folders between two EC2 instances within the same VPC
I have a number of Windows servers in EC2 on the same VPC. How can I get those machines to share folders with each other?
The closest answer I see is here: Unable to Share Data between Amazon EC2 ...
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Network Mapped Drives sensitive information leakage when changing LAN networks on Windows
Assuming the following or similar setup of network drives/locations on a Windows 7+ system originally connected to a TrustedLAN:
TrustedLAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1 /24
TrustedLAN Windows System IP: 192....
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File Server Directory Structure
Let's say I have 3 main directories that need to be shared, I'll call them "Management", "Finance" and "Sales". There seems to be two logical ways of doing this: either I ...
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Prevent deletion of other's files on a shared folder
We have a shared folder so all employees can upload and save file or create folders to it. But we want to prevent workers to delete other's files and folders. I assigned all permissions except "...
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Workstations lose connection to network shares and need to be rebooted in order to reconnect to shared resources
I have a situation where workstations will lose the connection to network shares and printers during the night and have to be rebooted in order to reconnect, afterwards everything works correctly, ...
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windows server 2008 folder share permissions on new OS
I have a AD DC 2008
i installed AD DC on another 2012 host, transferred the 2008 domain PDC and all other FSMO roles to the 2012 server.
the 2008 server has a E: drive with shared folders accessed ...
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How can I monitor the reliability of connections to network shares?
I can use any of Windows Pro or Server Standard, or CentOS to do this monitoring (I guess). It seems there are some complex issues going on with AWS Deadline jobs which I don't expect anyone to know ...
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In what order to executable files get transferred and executed from a network share?
What is the difference between transferring an executable file to your local computer before running it vs directly running it from an SMB share. Does running it from the share transfer the whole file ...
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Mounting a Samba share does work from Windows command line but not in Windows Explorer
I want to share a folder on our Ubuntu 20.04 Linux server to our Windows 10 Pro clients in the same network via Samba. So I installed Samba 4.11.6 on the server and created this (minimal) smb.conf ...
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Mapping to a Window 10 share over an OpenVPN client connection
I have a pfsense router with an OpenVPN client connected. I have a Synology NAS on the inside that I can map to over the VPN connection. I am also trying to map to a share on a Windows 10 Pro pc (...
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Windows Linux shared file system ownership
We have a network file system shared among Linux and Windows servers.
Whatever Windows writes gives ownership to root when observed from Linux.
In Linux we have a tomcat user which thus, is not able ...
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Prevent users to drop image files in a shared folder
I have a folder that is shared on the network. That folder contains a lot of files, documents, images, etc.
I would like that users can put any kind of files in the folder but NO images (JPG).
I can't ...
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Connect two small networks each using own DSL to one shared server for applications and data storage
Per davidgo I am rewriting this:
Company A has a network, DSL modem/router, switch, server DHCP running Server 2008, and workstations. While Company B has a network, DSL modem/router, switch, and IP ...
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Enter network credentials not working when connecting Win to Ubuntu Samba share
A real "Knacknuss"...
I have an Ubuntu Server, and setup Samba for Windows to connect. All is working fine but for that one particular Windows computer (Win 10 pro) that can not connect.
How ...
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Unable to remove network share credentials under 2012 R2 from programmed task
I am used a backup software (under Windows Server 2012 R2) that seems to use smb to write to the remote backup device. I have realized that, upon completion, credentials are "still there" so a ...
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Windows File Server - file creation error
We recently migrate our file server from win 2008R2 to a win2019. But from a network drive trying to create new folder or file will give you an error
"refers to a location that is unavailable".
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DNS resolving while working from home doesn't work accurate
In the current situation we are using VPN connections while working from home to get access to data in our company network. We are all using Windows 10 machines. We have some shared directories like "\...
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Using custom auth through hardware device on Windows network map drive possible?
I want to custom the auth method when connecting smb as a client on Windows to a linux server.
I expect to it to work like this: When connecting as a network map drive, Windows auth center will read ...
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Most secure way to implement a file server to avoid ransomware
Hi I'm looking to migrate several large file servers off of windows 2012. Servers are mainly just serving flat .pdf, word files, on internal network mainly running windows 10 clients . I am strongly ...
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How to restrict AD DS, DNS, and FS services to internal interfaces on Window Server 2019?
I have a Windows Server 2019 server, which is running some services itself, and Hyper-V virtual machines with Windows and Linux guests.
To centralize user and machine management, I have setup Active ...
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Cannot write to local shared directory
I wondered if anyone has experienced this issue...
We noticed a permissions error on a server that uses a case management system. It works by writing to locally hosted shared folders. After a reboot, ...
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Windows 10 shared folder
ComputerB has a shared folder for backups.
ComputerA is trying to run Backup and Restore with credentials of a user in ComputerB.
The backup fails because the user is not login in ComputerB.
As soon ...
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How to allow file to be executed but don't allow user to view folder content in File Explorer?
I have a folder of executables that users have read and execute permissions on. They also have a link on their desktop to run them. Is there anyway to still allow them to execute these files but not ...
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Windows 10 update, turns off public folder sharing - need update proof alternative to share files
Ours is a small office with 6 people, which is overkill for Windows Server. Instead, we use Windows Pro and utilise the public folder for sharing files. Shared files are from Windows specific apps ...
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How i can Change ownership for to shared folders to Domain administrator
This is on a small bussiness server 2008 (windows server standard FE copyright on 2007) with SP1 and powershell version 1 for some strange reason the server cannot update to sp2 and no longer updates ...
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