To hide the full share, you can use the following option: [global] access based share enum = yes To hide files/folders inside a share to users who do not have read permission on those files/folders, you can use: [share] … hide unreadable = yes
I would highly suggest AutoFS. This will dynamically mount and unmount your network shares in the background, all transparent to the user. I used to have problems with unmounting and remounting mobile devices until I made the switch. Unfortunately, there are far too many guides which overly complicate autofs setup. Assuming you’re on an Ubuntu … Read more
SMB 3.xx has a better tuned performance over “generic” TCP connectivity and has features like RDMA and multichannel support Microsoft didn’t implement with “their” (actually – licensed) NFS client.
C hallenge R esponse A uthentication P rotocol. See: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Winbind#CRAP (“I think the pun is intended.”)
For security reasons Microsoft has disabled the SMB 2 guest access. You are right that you can change the Windows settings to allow the guest access to the samba share. https://tech.nicolonsky.ch/windows-10-1709-cannot-access-smb2-share-guest-access/ https://support.microsoft.com/de-ch/help/4046019/guest-access-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-server-2016 You can change GPO settings to allow this. However, you can force use SMB 3.0 on samba site (will work if all your … Read more
If you follow the FAQ link from JasonAzze, you will see there is a “map to guest” line which is also required, so you need both of these lines: security = user map to guest = Bad Password I had the same problem as the OP, and I have tested that this solution works on … Read more
We use Samba extensively, and I’ve always found it to typically be faster than NFS in almost all cases (and I only say almost because I haven’t compared them enough). From what I’ve seen after a couple of packet captures, the SMB protocol can be chatty, but the latest version of Samba implements SMB2 which … Read more
I own an Apple Macbook Pro laptop with 64-bit OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” running Samba 3 that I installed through Macports. I also own a Dell Inspiron laptop with 64-bit GNU/Linux XUbuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” running Samba 3 that I installed through APT. Both machines have network-shared folders and use Samba in order to … Read more
OK, I have found an answer myself. As this is absolutely not obvious from the docs and HOWTOs and whatever, the reason this thing asks for password is because it cannot map guest user to the owner of the directory being shared. I have NTFS partitions which I need to mount RW so I used … Read more
Use the smbstatus command from the shell to get an output like this Samba version 3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4