Questions regarding Common Internet File System. CIFS is a protocol that defines a standard for remote file access, allowing for cross-platform file sharing.
Questions tagged [cifs]
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cifs mounting all files as root owner
I am trying to access a win7 machine that has sharing enabled on a folder. When I mount it on linux it lists all files as -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
If i sudo i can copy files back and forth but its read only if I dont.
sudo chown [standard_user] *…
flashc5
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Diagnosing / Troubleshooting SMB mount
Ubuntu 22.04: A Synology NAS SMB mount tested good with a Mac. A list of Samba share returned by MacOS Finder:
I would like to mount the SMB share:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.8.109/home -o username=****,password=******…
gatorback
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is there any way to mount cifs partitions with only user permissions
I am trying to mount cifs/samba drives on an Ubuntu machine. It seems as though I either need to run it under root or modify my fstab, which also requires root permissions.
On Mac, mount_smbfs does not require root.
Is there any way for a normal…
engineerchuan
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Ubuntu 16.04 CIFS to 2012R2 DFS drop connection seemingly random
My Ubuntu Server has been connecting to my Server 2012 R2 DFS namespace for about 2 years now with no issues. After the last couple of rounds of updates (Ubuntu and Windows) I noticed that every couple of hours the mount would drop and not come…
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Cifs not responding on Ubuntu 14.04
i have major issues on one of my 14.04 systems. On another one everything works totaly fine (this 2 Ubuntu machines are running on a hyper-v host, so they have exactly the same networking). The cifs server is a QNAP NAS device.
I receive…
michL
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cifs mounted devices not shown in lsblk
Why are my cifs mounted devices are not shown in lsblk list?
The mount and also auto mount of my cifs (external SSD) at startup works great with this /etc/fstab config
//__MY_IP__/FRITZ.NAS/ /home/openhabian/fritzNAS cifs…
PascalS
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