Marius van Witzenburg "Learned my lesson in life, now setting my action to stay in life."

8Apr/100

Fix write access problem for Mac OS X 10.6.x to Samba share on FreeBSD or Linux

Nothing is more irritating than not being able to copy the files you want to a share.

This problem has been bugging me since the release of Mac OS X 10.6.

The fix seems to be quite simple, I added the following to my global block in smb.conf:

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[global]
dos charset = UTF8
unix charset = UTF8
display charset = UTF8
unix extensions = no

Now we can work without errors again. :-)

Ps. Don't forget to unmount and re-mount your share before the changes take effect.

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13Mar/100

Snow Leopard and Samba

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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4Mar/100

Using fstab to automatically mount samba drives

Using fstab to automatically mount samba drives from for example a WD ShareStore drive with CIFS and SMB share support.

My configuration runs on FreeBSD 7.

First put your password information into a special tiny file /etc/nsmb.conf

[SERVER]
addr=192.168.1.5

[SERVER:USER1]
password=PASS1

[SERVER:USER2]
password=PASS2

Next you want to add these to /etc/fstab to auto mount:

# Mount shares
//server@user1/administration /mnt/server/downloads smbfs rw,auto 0 0
//server@user1/communicatie /mnt/server/documents smbfs rw,auto 0 0
//server@user2/creative /mnt/server/music smbfs rw,auto 0 0

I hope this helps you out with easy mounting it :-)

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