To quickly setup an FTP server or SMB share using a Docker container instead of fiddling with the system daemons, I’ve found these: FTP For bringing up an FTP server, I’ve found Gareth Flower’s vsftpd container: Here, it’s important to also map ports 40000 – 40009 for PASV FTP to work. The container automatically creates… Read More »
After an upgrade to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, all Samba shares were missing symlinks, esp. symlinks to directories outside the share. To enable these again, add the following lines into the [global] section of your /etc/samba/smb.conf: Then restart smbd and you should see the symlinks again.
Windows XP Professional only allows 10 simultaneous connections to shares and printer spoolers. The eleventh user gets a System error #71 message. The unused connections get freed after 30 minutes which is a bit late since often you just need a few files or to print some pages but this blocks the connection for 30… Read More »