Please note: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2 Warp Connect and OS/2 Warp 4 clients don't need any extra software in order to run talk to a Samba server. These OS's come standard with TCP/IP which is all you need. Mac OS X also ships with a native CIFS client. Since OS X 10.9 Apple moved away from AFP to SMB as standard.
Samba - Mac OS X an applications, along with other 'makes more sense' helpers, that the typical Mac user (just turn it on and create) needs, because Apple has lost it's direction in OS building.
After installing the OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 update, I found that I could no longer write to Samba (SMB) volumes shared from my Linux server (running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala) that I had mounted on OS X.
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10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
What I find most interesting is that the errors only occur when using finder. If I was working with files from a shell prompt, no problems at all.
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
I found several 'smb.conf' files in my Ubuntu 9.10, but I can't figure it out which one to modify. Could you just give me the path to the file? Thank you.
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
I replied to skeeks by email before I saw this comment, so for anyone else with the same question the Ubuntu Samba config file is found at /etc/samba/smb.conf. In other Linux distros it is typically found either there or at /etc/smb.conf.
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
unix extensions have never been working with osx, especially when acls are used. http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4164 http://serverfault.com/questions/43977/mac-os-x-clients-cannot-see-extended-acls-through-samba-or-netatalk-on-a-debian-s
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
Several people have written to me to point out that there are advantages to having Unix extensions on. That's true and this should be considered a workaround rather than a fix. When (if?) Apple fixes the underlying problem you should turn Unix extensions back on in your Samba server.
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
WOW! I was going through a lot of this when I recently set up a FreeNas box and was getting extremely frustrated with it. My solution was to manually upload everything via FTP to the server, but that did take a while. Next time I have files to copy over, I will see if this works. Thanks for the awesome and timely tip!
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
I hit this problem the other day after upgrading to 10.6.3.
I did a little bit of digging and discovered that it's apparently due to extended attributes on the files.
I was trying to copy some dmg images to my file server (Ubuntu 9.10, Samba 3.4.0) and it wouldn't work. If I tried to copy them via 'cp', I'd get an error about extended attributes.
I used 'xattr' on the affected files at the command line to remove all the extended attributes, and after that I was able to copy the files to my file server without a problem.
I thought maybe this hint would also fix the issue, but I didn't have a chance to test that before this hint about unix extensions came along (which works great, btw).
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
Samba File Server
Hmm, so you need to adapt the external machine in order to correct a bug in OSX..? not very encouraging. I am still stucked with the 'numerical passwords only' bug in SL. When connecting to my NAS (on a Linux box) I only get access if a I choose a password with numbers. Any character there will give me a 'non correct password' error in OSX 10.6.3 :-(
Samba Configuration Mac Os X
10.6: Fix Samba write access from OS X to Linux servers
Samba For Mac
Hi, Still i'm having the same issue after adding unix extensions = no. Still i can't rename the sub directories of my shared folder. I'm using Snow leopard 10.6.3 client and Ubuntu 9.10 Samba server. Looking forward your support. Thanks, Gulab Pasha