Questions tagged [samba]
a free software implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol, providing file and print services for Microsoft Windows clients.
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Raspberry pi as a git server has stopped working
A couple of years ago I set up a raspberry pi running bookworm with an external hard disc so that I could use it as a small file server and also as a git server. Today I needed to setup a few things ...
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Raspberry Pi 5 Freezes With Solid Green LED
Raspberry Pi 5 freezes after a few hours of uptime. The LED is solid green. I recently bought and configured a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB to use as a: Samba NAS (local) Torrent Client (qbittorrent) Walkdown:...
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Auto mounted drive can't be seen in Samba
Bookworm auto mounts my external HDD, but I'm unable to see it with Samba no matter what I try with setting the share path in the smb.conf file. I can only see what's in my home directory, and /mnt ...
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Can someone please help me get samba setup on my raspberry pi so I can connect it to my computer and Haas Machine Center?
I am loosing my patience with this and I just need it to work! I would even be willing to pay someone to help me get this going. Ok, here is the back story. I have a Haas VF2 Machine center that only ...
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Pi4 Slow performance in local network over wi-fi
I'm running Pi4 4Gb as my Time Machine and Media Storage via smb server + PiHole. Speeds were always inferior, but I suspected problem was WD My Passport with HFS+ (for time machine) and exfat ...
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Using a RPi Zero W as a WiFi enabled USB stick
I have an older industrial instrument running Windows CE that I would like to access data from remotely over WiFi. The instrument saves data (10-20 kB for each test) to a USB stick, so leveraging ...
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Network drive sharing when RPi is file server
I'm using a Pi4 as a file server. Everything was fine - USB drives are mounted, Samba shares makes them available to the network. No issues until I reformatted the drives as ext4. I moved the data, ...
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Raspberry Pi Samba time machine backup bottleneck
The Problem I've setup my Raspberry Pi 1B+ running DietPi as a Time Machine backup destination as per this tutorial. I have attached a 2TB Western Digital USB 3.0 disk. Obviously this is an old Pi so ...
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Set up Wireguard AP and SMB Server on the same Pi
I have a Raspberry Pi that I'm using as a SMB server for a few months now. I'm using raspbian without graphical interface on it. I wanted it to be able to have a Wi-Fi Access Point that sends traffic ...
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Windows 10 -> Raspberry PI 4 Samba Share Speed extremely slow unless pause and resume
I've been trying to set up my Raspberry PI 4 as a home media server and was planning to use Samba to transfer files from my Windows 10 PC to the Raspberry PI. Currently, I get speeds of <5 MB/s ...
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How do I alter write permissions from root to specific user on a Samba raspberry pi nas using an exfat drive?
I've set up a nas with a raspberry pi and an exfat drive. Unfortunately I can only read from my computer and not write since only root has write permissions on the drive and I cannot alter them using '...
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Raspberry Pi Samba Share Suddenly Unreachable on MacOS
System: macOS Monterey (12.4) 2021 Macbook Pro w/ M1 Pro I have been using my Raspberry Pi as a Network Access Share (NAS) with Samba for around a year now without any issues. Today, however, I ...
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Can't use mkdir unless sudo is used
I lost my ssd on my pi and had to buy a new one, when installing the lite version of the OS I used the imager tool to create a "pi" user, since it does not do it automatically anymore. But ...
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Samba compressed transfer over network under Raspbian?
I am currently using a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ as a NAS, and the bottleneck is the 100Mb ethernet adapter I am using. Is it possible to configure Samba to automatically and transparently compress/decompress ...
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Error starting smbd.service
I am using my headless raspberri pi 4 running raspbian as a samba fileserver. It resides on my desktop (furniture). Unfortunately, while I left my office, somebody by mistake pulled the plug. After ...
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