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Commands tagged samba

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umount -t smbfs
2012-02-23 10:46:44
User: Velenux
Functions: umount
Tags: samba
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Unmount all mounted SAMBA/Windows shares

smbfs or cifs, depends on which you are using

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mount|grep -e '//'|cut -d ' ' -f3| xargs -I {} umount {}
2012-01-17 01:20:09
User: thund3rstruck
Functions: cut grep mount umount xargs
Tags: samba
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Unmount all mounted SAMBA/Windows shares

This is a handy command to put into ~/.bash_logout to automatically un-mount windows shares whenever the user logs out. If you use this on as a non-root account then you'll need to append sudo before umount and the user will need to have the appropriate sudoer rights to run the /bin/umount command.

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chflags -R nouchg ./
2011-08-17 08:39:16
User: matths
Tags: svn samba osx folder
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make a samba shared folder writable, when doing an svn commit on OSX

otherwise you get this error message:

svn: Can't move '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries': Operation not permitted

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arp-scan -I eth0 -l | perl -ne '/((\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})/ and $ip=$1 and $_=`nmblookup -A $ip` and /([[:alnum:]-]+)\s+<00>[^<]+<ACTIVE>/m and printf "%15s %s\n",$ip,$1'
2011-07-08 07:41:41
User: bandie91
Functions: arp perl printf
Tags: scan samba arp-scan netbios
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Scan for [samba|lanman] NetBIOS names and ip addresses in LAN by ARP.
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net rpc -I ADDRESS -U USERNAME%PASSWORD service {stop|start} SVCNAME
2010-06-29 17:12:36
User: f0rk
Tags: Linux windows smb samba
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Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine

Control (stop, start, restart) a Windows Service from a Linux machine which has the `net` command (provided by samba).

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echo "message" | smbclient -M NAME_OF_THE_COMPUTER
2010-02-28 21:10:46
User: mvrilo
Functions: echo
Tags: windows echo smb samba smbclient
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send a message to a windows machine in a popup

It will only work if the service NETSEND in the Windows machine is enabled.

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nmblookup -A <ip>
2010-02-26 11:08:46
User: ivanatora
Tags: samba
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Display network pc "name" and "workgroup"

Checks for PC samba name and workgroup. Works fine for Windows hosts and Linux/UNIX PCs running Samba.

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sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/path/to/credenials //hostname/sharename /mount/point
2009-11-23 23:55:20
User: magma_camel
Functions: mount sudo
Tags: sudo mount samba cifs
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Mount a Windows share on the local network (Ubuntu) with user rights and use a specific samba user

mounts a samba share on a remote machine using a credentials file that can be in a file tht is not accessable by other users the file will look like:

username="username"

password="password"

best option i belive

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smbpasswd -r <domain-server> -U <user name>
2009-08-12 07:46:48
User: greppo
Tags: Linux macosx samba
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Change Windows Domain password from Linux

If you use Linux in a Windows domain and there are N days to expiry, this is how you can change it without resorting to a windows machine.

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while (( $i != 0 )) { smbstatus; sleep 5; clear }
2009-06-03 13:26:30
User: unixmonkey4084
Functions: clear sleep
Tags: unix samba zsh
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See smbstatus all the time

See smbstatus Output within a 5 second interval (for monitoring smb access)

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sudo vi /etc/fstab; Go//smb-share/gino /mnt/place smbfs defaults,username=gino,password=pass 0 0<esc>:wq; mount //smb-share/gino
2009-04-02 16:04:35
User: GinoMan2440
Functions: mount sudo vi
Tags: Filesystem bash vim sudo Linux mount macosx unix vi smb smbfs samba fstab gino
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automount samba shares as devices in /mnt/

the middle command between the ; and ; is the vi commands that insert that line into the last line of the file, the esc with the carets is literally hitting the escape key, you have to have the smbfs package installed to do it, I use it to access my iTunes music on my mac from my linux PC's with amarok so I can play the music anywhere in the house. among other things, it allows you to access the files on that share from your computer anytime you're on that network.

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