Category: Filesharing / NFS / SAMBA / SMB

Samba4 on CentOS7 in under 10min – add windows file sharing user script – security – from SMB 1.0 to 2.0 – anti ETERNALBLUE EXPLOIT update trouble – SID “username” is not in a valid format – pdb_getsampwnam (tdb) error fetching database – solved
19.04.2018

update: 2019-02: everything was fine… until you decided to update because of the EthernalBlue exploit THAT ALSO AFFECTS OPEN SOURCE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF SMB 1.0! (WTF!? WHY?), samba now miss behaves on Debian and CentOS. (scroll down for details) EternalBlue, sometimes […]

Howto install and setup SMB File Sharing Server (dance Samba) with GNU Linux – virtualbox and kvm template vms – samba losing files after reboot (RAM cache not synced too often)
04.08.2017

the best about samba: thanks for samba, it provides users with a fast (of course depends also on harddisk speed) rock-solid no-limit-to-maximum-users file-server for maximum file-transfer-and-sharing-and-storage productivity (and they will USE that T: temp drive for EVERYTHING! prepare for TERRABYTES […]

06.07.2017

can be easily checked via: root@debian9:~# cat /proc/filesystems nodev sysfs nodev rootfs nodev ramfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev cpuset nodev cgroup nodev cgroup2 nodev tmpfs nodev devtmpfs nodev debugfs nodev tracefs nodev securityfs nodev sockfs nodev bpf nodev pipefs […]