Piping password to smbpasswd
Thanks to Mark I found the answer: (echo newpassword; echo confirmNewPassword) | smbpasswd -s BTW: (echo oldpasswd; echo newpasswd) | smbpasswd -s does not work.
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What is the meaning of these Windows Environment variables: HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, HOMESHARE, USERPROFILE
USERPROFILE is set by userenv!LoadUserProfileW which is called when, well, loading the user’s profile (the HKEY_USERS\<sid> hive). This typically happens the first time a process is started for the user. If you specifically arranged not to load the profile (e.g. with /noprofile for runas) then the process is run in the Default User profile which … Read more
What does cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 indicate
I ran into this problem when using a host name and solved it by using an IP address. E.g.: use mount -t cifs //192.168.1.15/share rather than mount -t cifs //servername/share Another possible solution is to install cifs-utils .
Cannot bulk load because the file could not be opened. Operating System Error Code 3
I do not know if you solved this issue, but I ran into the same issue. If the instance is local you must check the permission to access the file, but if you are accessing from your computer to a server (remote access) you have to specify the path in the server, so that means … Read more
Meteor: unexpected mongo exit code 100
Using meteor reset erases all the data from your database. If you’re worried about this then navigate to your project folder. cd /path/to/my/project Here you need to erase the mongodb.lock file. rm .meteor/local/db/mongodb.lock Now you can run Meteor using the command, meteor
preserving file permissions for samba shares when file is edited
Could finally figure out why permission was changing. The confusion arose from the map archive = yes setting being the default value in Samba. After setting map archive = no, the owner execute bit started behaving like I expected it to behave. Found the answer by reading the documentation over here: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch08.html in the File … Read more
How do you force a CIFS connection to unmount
I use lazy unmount: umount -l (that’s a lowercase L) Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierarchy now, and cleanup all references to the filesystem as soon as it is not busy anymore. (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)