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Delete files and folders recursively in subdirectories
You can do it using following find command:
find /path/to/transfer -mindepth 2 -delete
-mindepth 2 parameter tells find to ignore first two level of directories: searched directory itself, and all ...
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Samba: How to prevent Samba-server from auto-providing users /home-directory as a shared-folder?
Per @Nasir Riley's answer - That will keep the share from showing to anyone browsing the server for shares.
However, the share is still available if you know that it exists.
It would be much better ...
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Why am I getting a "permission denied" trying to access a shared folder in Virtualbox?
Try adding yourself to the "vboxsf" group within the guest VM:
sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf $(whoami)
Note that you have to log out and log back in for this to take effect. After logging back in, check ...
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Mount NFS - "operation not permitted" in Proxmox container
I found the issue.
Basically, I've created a Debian unprivileged container in Proxmox.
That means NFS is unavailable. Until now, I was unaware of that restriction while using Proxmox containers.
To be ...
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How to disable authentication requirement for VirtualBox's shared folder?
I had the same problem, and found the solution here:
Note: Access to auto-mounted shared folders is only granted to the user
group vboxsf, which is created by the VirtualBox Guest Additions
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Samba: How to prevent Samba-server from auto-providing users /home-directory as a shared-folder?
It is enough to include this line:
available = no
So the section should look something like this:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
available = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes
valid users = %S
...
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How to create a shared folder
According to this, you want to set the setgid bit on the directory:
$ chmod g+s shared_data
All new files created in the directory will have the group set to the group of the directory.
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mount error(115): Operation now in progress
The issue ended up being that the route to the NAS was missing. Once the route was added, I was able to mount the drive with ease.
route add-net x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x gw x.x.x.x
Hopefully this ...
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Where to find the shared folder in Kali Linux?
Both stackprotector's AND petoetje59's answer helped with this issue.
cd /mnt/hgfs
If the folder is missing --> sudo mkdir hgfs
sudo vim /etc/fstab
Enter vmhgfs-fuse /mnt/hgfs fuse defaults,...
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How to create a Samba share that is writable from Windows without 777 permissions?
In the share settings in smb.conf, you'll need to specify the names of users and/or groups that are allowed to write to the share, using a write list = ... line.
Example:
[myshare]
...
write list = ...
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Permission denied on files in a directory on a CIFS-mounted Windows share in Linux
Further digging revealed a noperm parameter that can be used on the mount command:
sudo mount.cifs //HPSERVER/linux-bup/ /home/maxg/bmsOnSrvr --v -o user=linux,pass=****,noperm
result now:
# [2018-...
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Virtual Box - Shared folder issue with Ubuntu 16.04
Were you able to successfully restart the guest os? That is necessary to be able to see sf_Share through the Auto-mount option. In the Guest OS you can run:
sudo mkdir ~/Share
sudo mount -t vboxsf ...
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Change ownership of a share drive
It is not possible to change permissions on a windows share when it's already mounted, but it is possible to change them during the mount.
first unmount your share with:
sudo umount /mnt/windowshare/...
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How to mount a linux host filesystem with FreeDOS running in qemu?
This has worked for me.
qemu ... -hdb fat:rw:/dir/to/mount
However, it's limited to 512MB, and doesn't reflect any changes made to the directory from the host system after QEMU starts.
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Systemd service to start only after CIFS mount
After= is correct – you should add an After= for the .mount unit that represents your filesystem, e.g. After=mnt-data.mount.
Although in general you should pair it with either Requires= (in your case) ...
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CentOS 7.4 Samba share access denied
You're using an unknown account:
check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [pepe] -> [pepe] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER, authoritative=1
so your access to soft is as guest. You've ...
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How to view and browse windows shared folders in entire local network?
For a terminal based solution, you can use
nmblookup -S '*'
which shows all Samba shares in your broadcast domain.
More can be found here.
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How to let users collaborate by editing files in a shared directory
It's actually fairly easy. Most people seem to think that they need to set permissions of all files under a given directory, but this is not true. Just the toplevel directory will do:
chown :team /...
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Delete files and folders recursively in subdirectories
A failed answer:
rm -R transfer/user*/.
e.g.:
$ rm -R transfer/user*/.
rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping 'transfer/user1/.'
$
Eliminates the contents of all of the users, but ...
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SAMBA: Disable anonymous browsing of shares?
In your global section add:
restrict anonymous = 2
and change allow guests as it cancels out the anonymous restriction:
usershare allow guests = no
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How to make this Samba share accessible without any user/password login?
I finally found the solution:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = NAS
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
logging = file
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
...
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VirtualBox shared folders from OS X host are not writable on Ubuntu guest
Can you try this ?
mount -t vboxsf -ouid=root,gid=www-users,fmode=664,dmode=775 web-server /usr/share/host/web-server
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mount error(115): Operation now in progress
I got this error when mounting a remote windows 10 SAMBA drive on ubuntu 18.04. After waiting for 10 minutes and running the same command, it worked normally. Maybe the problem can sometimes be caused ...
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How do I create symbolic link in a VMWare shared folder that both host and guest see as a symbolic link?
You should use the tools for the filesystem in use.
In this case you need ntfs-3G-Advanced to be able to read NTFS junctions and need to use the Windows junction functions inside Windows (mklink Link ...
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Get a part of a folder name as variable
You can assign the output to a variable, then you can use pattern matching, for example:
VAR1=ABCD01
echo ${VAR1##*[[:alpha:]]}
This will remove all alphabetical characters from the variable and will ...
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uploading, storing and browsing millions of tiny files - best practices
Do not store all files in one directory. Regardless of which filesystem you use browsing will be very very slow. Create subdirectories or possibly two or three levels of subdirectories. It depends on ...
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How to create a Samba share that is writable from Windows without 777 permissions?
Basic working setup in my case (using SAMBA guest feature, /myfolder access rights suitable for [your_SAMBA-Unix_share_user_account]):
[global]
guest account = [your_SAMBA-Unix_share_user_account]
[...
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How to create a Samba share that is writable from Windows without 777 permissions?
I was looking for this because I was in a hurry and didn't even had time to focus on creating users and so...
Just had to take out the data of a debian 9 machine as soon as possible and this was the ...
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password protected samba share
This is explained very well in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q0mnAT1MRg
I found it works better if you backup old smb.conf file and create a new one from scratch.
Go to /etc/samba ...
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Make subdirectory world writable even if parent folder is not
To access a directory, the directory itself, as well as all the intermediate directories from the root down, has to have the x permission for the given user, their group or all. This would allow ...
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