[Samba] RH 9, Samba 2.2.8 and Mac OS X Clients

Tom Schaefer tom at umsl.edu
Thu Dec 4 15:32:23 GMT 2003


Right, I can't drag a file in the finder to a mounted samba 3.0 share, I'll get an "insufficient privileges error".  But if open the Terminal I can copy the file onto the samba share no problem with the cp command.

You've got me thinking though - the whole unicode, UTF8, character set conversion, codepages, all that bundle of fun, I could see that perhaps being a problem, I'm going to dig into that.

Thanks,
Tom

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:29:58 -0600
"Philip Edelbrock" <phil at edgedesign.us> wrote:

> Re: [Samba] RH 9, Samba 2.2.8 and Mac OS X Clients
> 
> What happens w/ 3.0?  You get permission errors when trying to copy files?
> 
> I have a couple servers here running Baltra+Samba 3.0.  Just as a sanity
> check, I logged in using my laptop (10.3.1) to a test server, created a
> new directory, copied a directory containing some files (an application
> folder), renamed, moved a folder inside another, and deleted it.  No
> problems.
> 
> Here's a relevent section of my smb.conf:
> 
> ---snip---
> ; UTF-8 encoding to match Baltra
> 
>    unix charset = UTF8
>    unicode = yes
> 
>   dos charset = ASCII
> 
> ; Allows you to save your password on the client (OS-X as well as WinXP)
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
> 
> ; Hide some irrelevent files
> veto files = /Temporary Items/Network Trash
> Folder/TheFindByContentFolder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
> 
> ; When deleting, remove those hidden veto files as well.
> delete veto files = yes
> ---snip---
> 
> Make sure you aren't blocking the creation/deletion of dot files (as
> Will suggested).
> 
> Phil
> 
> Tom Schaefer wrote:
> 
> >Thanks but yes I've tried 3.0, I should have mentioned that in my post.
> >
> >Thanks though,
> >Tom
> >
> >At 03:16 PM 12/3/03 -0600, you wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>   
> >>   It seems to solve a lot of the issues OS-X  
> >> btw-Samba 3.0 is what is used in OS-X as the SMB  
> >>server service. 
> >> Phil 
> >>http://www.baltra.org   Tom Schaefer wrote:   >  Yes, I experience that
> >>exact same issue with Mac OS 
> >>   
> >>
> >>>10.2.x and like you was waiting for 10.3 which I got to try for the first 
> >>>   As you say 
> >>>everything works fine if you drop to a shell prompt you can do all the cp 
> >>>-r, mv, rm whatever you want but in the GUI you get insufficient 
> >>> In fact I know 
> >>> From a post I 
> >>>found elsewhare I gather 10.2 is fine but then it all got mucked up with 
> >>>the subsequent releases 10.2.x and now 10.3. 
> >>>
> >>> Now in my case 
> >>>its not Redhat, its Sparc/Solaris and the weird weird thing about it is 
> >>>that its only a problem if I'm running a Samba compiled for Sparc as a 
> >>> A 32bit compile of Samba keeps the Macintoshes happy but thats 
> >>>really not an option for me due to a bug in Solaris where if you are 
> >>>running a 32bit samba you are limited to 255 users which is not nearly 
> >>>enough in my case. 
> >>>
> >>> But since then I've 
> >>>gathered up a bunch of postings, mostly from www.apple.com/support (most 
> >>>of which have expired off that server but I still have copies) of people 
> >>>describing these exact same symptoms on Redhat, Suse, Gentoo, Mandrake, 
> >>>and FreeBSD, and possibly IRIX (the guy wasn't specific enough to say for 
> >>> And now that I think about someone I work with was in touch with 
> >>>another site running Solaris like us and having the same problem. 
> >>>
> >>> I don't know if its an Apple problem or something in 
> >>> All I know is its been broke quite a while - at least for a 
> >>> I tried Samba on Redhat back 
> >>>in July to see if I could replicate the problem I was having with Mac OS 
> >>> In my experiment Redhat worked fine, go 
> >>>figure, thats why I thought it was a Sun problem until I've seen all the 
> >>>subsequent posts like the one from yourself. 
> >>>
> >>>If you figure out anything about it whatsoever please drop me a note as 
> >>>this is about to become a HUGE headache for me as the university I work 
> >>>for just bought a classroom full of these OS 10 boxes and expect the 
> >>>students to be able to mount their disk space just like how they get a 
> >>> So I'm scrambling 
> >>>for a solution. 
> >>>
> >>>Tom Schaefer 
> >>>UNIX Administrator 
> >>>University of Missouri Saint Louis 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:15:42 +0000 
> >>><> wrote: 
> >>>
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>>Been having very similar problems on RedHad-7.3 with Samba 2.2.7-3.7.3. 
> >>>> An entry 
> >>>>is created for the file on the server, but no data ever gets transfered. 
> >>>>
> >>>>I've found that if you manipulate the files from the Terminal there is 
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>> I found that while native 
> >>>>Aqua apps can't get a handle on the shares, an app such as jEdit on OSX 
> >>>>_does_ work without a glitch. 
> >>>>
> >>>>I waited for OSX 10.3 (panther) to come out in the hope that the problem 
> >>>> Still broken! 
> >>>>
> >>>>On the other hand, it appears that shares from a Windoze 2000 Server 
> >>>>work fine, so I'm not sure what to make of it - is it a Samba issue or 
> >>>>an Apple problem? 
> >>>>
> >>>>Does anyone else experience anything like this? 
> >>>>
> >>>>Jinn 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:00:20 +0200, Götz Reinicke wrote: 
> >>>>    
> >>>>
> >>>>       
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi, 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>we run a RH9 samba 2.2.8 ext3 Server and have some problems with MacOS 
> >>>>>      
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Clients: They aren't allowed to write directories containing files 
> >>>>>any of our shares. 
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>>>I connect to the sambaserver with smb://servername/sharename and a 
> >>>>>      
> >>>>>
> >>>>>user. This user is allowed to create new folders and he can copy 
> >>>>>into this folder. 
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>>>But if he tries to copy the local folder containing files to the share 
> >>>>>or into a newly created folder on this share, ther is an errormessage  
> >>>>>saying, that the user has not the necessary access rights.... :-( 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>An other RH9 Server with samba 2.2.8 did'nt have this problem.... 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I controlled the writelist option, the directory permissions. 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Any ideas?? 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Götz Reinicke 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--  
> >>>>>Götz Reinicke 
> >>>>>IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 
> >>>>> +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 
> >>>>>goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de 
> >>>>>
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> >>>>>Mathildenstr. 20 
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> >>>>>www.filmakademie.de 
> >>>>>      
> >>>>>
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>
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