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Can I disable the nmb.service of Samba if I want share a Linux folder with Windows PCs?
You can always disable nmb.service. It has no real use in modern networks. It mostly deals only with auto-discovery, and its protocols have been superseded by mDNS and WS-Discovery in most cases (the ...
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Why can I see my samba shares from CentOS 7 but not Fedora 30?
I've finally managed to nail this down but I don't yet understand exactly why some of these changes need to be made.
CentOS 7 always "just works" as a result of its older code base. All of ...
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Translate NetBIOS Frames to NetBIOS over TCP/IP
Plain NetBIOS (or NetBEUI as it is sometimes referred to in Windows) has never been supported by Samba, and since the worldwide WannaCry ransomware cyberattack of May 2017, even NetBIOS over TCP/IP is ...
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Accessing a Linux system inside a network: is it via hostname or netbios name?
'netbios name' is a name used by only some special programs.
Your Linux system is in the network represented by all of its IP addresses (try ifconfig | grep inet), where 127.0.0.1 and ::1 are always ...
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Resolving NETBIOS names from Linux
For me, the winbind Daemon does not run by default (The OS is Centos 8). I have to start it manually.
sudo systemctl start winbind
And this solved the problem. <3
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Resolving NETBIOS names from Linux
In my case, I'm running an embedded linux system with about 10MB of free NAND storage space. I think the above answers are a bit misleading, suggesting that only libnss_winbind.so is necessary for ...
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