Re: connecting from MAC OS X to a Samba share

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 08/08/05

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    On (08/08/05 21:33), Frank Guthorel wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I got a problem in our network here - a recently purchased Mac Powerbook
    > on OS X 10.4.2 cannot seem to find any shares that are available on the
    > Debian server.
    >
    > Other machines can access without any problem - Linux, Win2000 can
    > browse and access the files on the shares. I have been reading a lot of
    > stuff about this online - but it contradicts, or is not related to the
    > issue we are having.
    >
    > Samba version was quite recently updated to 3.0.14a on the Debian
    > server- I cannot tell whether it was already broken before the upgrade,
    > since we did not have the powerbook yet.
    >
    > Could somebody tell whether this is the client (MAC) or the server
    > (Debian) that is causing the problem ? Any solutions or links I could
    > try or follow ?

    On samba networks, we've setup, serving Mac, Linux and Windows clients,
    I've found that /home directories aren't found by MacOSX unless you
    explicitly set up the individual shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf

    As an aside I've yet to find a reliable linux network browser; they all
    seem to read files OK but writing to shares is erratic at best. The
    only reliable method I've found is to add the samba shares into
    /etc/fstab on each client.

    Regards

    Clive 

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