badbass Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I have been having a tough time setting my share drives up from my Ubuntu server. I see my machine I click on it in network neighborhood. It asks me for a password I try my user PW no good. I don't have a smb PW set. I try to set one for my user I'd no dice. I was thinking about a NFS server setup. Short story long mapping NFS to a drive or NFS period is not available in win7 pro or 8.1. Is there commercial NFS client. Last post this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Personal experience: After a server restart, no client would connect successfully. Restart samba on the server and one of the two processes turns out to have died on me or not come up at all. Nothing in the logs, no clue as to what the issue is. Once restarted I connect without a hitch and the connection remains fine even after several client restarts. Never bothered me enough to look into it (it's a server after all, I don't restart it particularly often) but maybe something to consider. All my accounts had passwords setup. Sometimes really stupid passwords (mplayer/mplayer) but passwords nonetheless. I don't like NFS. I'd prefer NFS4 but the dependencies there were so many it just put me off. Setting up Samba was, comparatively, a breeze. NFS client option: NekoDrive According to this NFS client support is in Win7 Pro and up. Just not installed by default (of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 For security reasons, I disable all file sharing features on my windows machines and just use FileZilla when I need to get something off windows and WinSCP when logging into *nix machines. May sound like the long way around, but if you're uBuntu machine has SSH installed, setup an SCP client on your other machines and move files over SCP. Encrypted, and if port forwarded from the internet, you can access your files securely from anywhere so long as you have an sFTP or SCP client at the other end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbass Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 Sadly I have no problem with filezilla and scp/sftp. For users they really need a drive mapped is the problem. The security is not a problem it is on the inside of the dmz. I don't know I will keep pluging along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Not sure what to say then. If the SMB share is setup properly, either the client end doesn't like the security of the connection or something else is not setup correctly. First link on google though "map a drive in windows 7": http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-shortcut-map-network-drive#1TC=windows-7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbass Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 (edited) Fixed the samba config I will put that-on a flash drive as a templaate. I still think the mini files server is cool. Edited January 4, 2015 by badbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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