[Samba] Snow Leopard and Samba

[David Harrison]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:22 AM, jjrowan <samba at rownetco.com> wrote:

> A customer has an expanding number of Mac computers.  Last Friday and
> existing machine started having problems writing files to a Samba share on a
> CentOS 5.x server.  They had no problems prior to Friday.
>
>
This issue is caused by the recent OSX 10.6.3 update not supporting wide
links (see the Samba wide links security problem:
secunia.com/advisories/38454/).
See here for a discussion:
splatdot.com/fixing-snow-leopard-10-6-3-samba-write-access
<http://splatdot.com/fixing-snow-leopard-10-6-3-samba-write-access>

If you are running the latest versions of Samba you will not experience this
problem because wide links are disabled by default. If you are not running a
current version, you do not need to disable unix extensions entirely, simply
disable wide links in your Samba's smb.conf file:

wide links = no
getwd cache = yes

* Enabling the getwd cache is recommended here:
oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/appb_02.html
But whether it is relevant in this day and age I don't know.


David