Marius van Witzenburg » OS X http://mariusvw.com We fight for our survival, we fight! Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:35:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to fix broken Samba shares on Mac OS X Snow Leopard http://mariusvw.com/2010/03/13/how-to-fix-broken-samba-shares-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/ http://mariusvw.com/2010/03/13/how-to-fix-broken-samba-shares-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000 mariusvw http://mariusvw.com/?p=1338 I was searching for a way to get rid of my Finder problems...
I stumbled upon this blog post, this solved Finder crashes and hookups for me.

Thanks for this info!
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I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard on my Macbook and soon realized my Samba shares were broken through finder - but still worked from the CLI.

Worse still once I tried to access the shares Finder would basically be dead, you'd need to Force Quit it to make it work again.

Eventually I reached for tcpdump and wireshark and found it's the pesky .DS_Store files again, seems my QNAP is denying access to them, Finder did not cope well with this.

A quick bit of hackery of my smb.conf solved it:

veto files = /.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/.DS_Store/:2eDS_Store/Network Trash Folder/Temporary Items/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.@__thumb/.@__desc/
delete veto files = yes

Once I got this removed and samba restarted my shares were working again in Snow Leopard. A bit annoying but not too hard in the end.

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