When working on Office documents like Word, Excel they create a temporary file when they are being worked on. This can sometimes confuse people working on SAMBA shares. See example These temp files will begin with a tilde (~) There is an option in SAMBA to hide certain files with a wildcard. Simply add this line: hide files = /~*/ This means any files with tilde will be hidden until ‘Show hidden files’ are selected in Windows explorer. To ensure they are not seen…
To install smbclient on CentOS simply use the following command. yum install samba-client
To install smbclient on Fedora simply use the following command. yum install samba-client
To install smbclient on Fedora simply use the following command. yum install samba-client
Problem If you get the following message in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog Global parameter guest account found in service section! This means that a global variable has been put in a share section of the smb.conf to fix this remove the global variable in this case it is ‘guest account’ from the share. Solution If you require this variable put it in the [global] section of smb.conf and not the individual share remove this line from [share] and make sure it…
