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File and print server for compatibility with Windows stuff.

• https://tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html ^[ 1 ] was https://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060908123327/http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/

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• 2008-08-22 – (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)

2008-08-22 – (version not recorded) ∞

Smb.conf ∞

This actually worked for me:

[global]
netbios name = SERVER
server string = "will it work?"
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = share
log file = /var/log/samba.log
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
encrypt passwords = no  
wins support = yes
;guest account = nobody
os level = 2
;hosts allow = 192.168.16.33
;hosts allow = 192.168.16.34

[mp3]
       path = /path/to/dir/
       guest ok = yes
       writeable = yes
        browsable = yes
        create mode = 0750

authentication is not supported! ∞

mount -t smbfs //server/user /mnt/mountpoint -o username=myusername,password=mypassword

smb4k
SMB connection failed
cli_negprot: SMB signing is mandatory and we have disabled it.
5486: protocol negotiation failed

Somehow this works:

mount -t smbfs //192.168.10.112/projects /mnt/mnt -o username=username,uid=user

I use my local username(uid)/password(when prompted)

.. even when that windows machine doesn’t know about my local user/password.

rsync and cp cannot send large files over samba: File too large (27) ∞

(rsync)

rsync: write failed on "/path/to/filename.ext": File too large (27)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(298) [receiver=3.0.0]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (37 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [sender=               3.0.0]

• The destination is awake and alive.
• The connection is stable.

• There’s enough space on the destination.

From what I can glean from the net, it might be some kind of temporary file creation issue. Why the hell is rsync creating temporary files? Just. Copy. The. File.

Regular cp -av doesn’t work either. This is definitely an arbitrary samba limitation. =(

Issues with Samba ∞

Did you reboot your Windows Vista machine while it was mounted on your Linux machine? Now your Linux box constantly hangs during save dialogues or df? Do a lazy unmount[doesn’t exist]:

\umount  -l /mnt/mountpoint

Apparently a forced umount won’t work, but -l (lazy) does. Strange.