[Samba] OSX losses link when samba is restarted

[James Peach]

On 25/05/07, Alexander Lazarevich <alazarev at itg.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > alazarev at itg.uiuc.edu wrote:
> >> We run Samba 3.0.24 on a FC5 and RHEL4-AS systems. Works great with windows
> >> clients, and OSX clients work great with it too except for one problem:
> >>
> >> Whenever I restart samba (with /etc/init.d/smb restart) any OSX client that
> >> has a samba share open will lose that connection, and so if a person had a
> >> file open and was editing, all changes made since the last save are lost.
> >> This of course does NOT happen with windows clients, they are smart enough
> >> to recognize the link is reconnected. But OSX losses the link completely,
> >> and the share has to be remounted, which is really silly.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if there is some smb.conf setting that will fix this for OSX,
> >> and not screw things up for windows clients. Or maybe there is an OSX tweek
> >> to make on each client? I searched this list for OSX and found no similar
> >> problems. Arghgh.
> >>
> >> Anyone see this behavior and know of a fix.
> >>
> >> Our OSX clients are 10.4.9.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> > This is normal behavior of OS X, I'm afraid. I would love to have a way
> > around it too.
> >
> > Andy
>
> Well shoot, okay so it's normal behavior, but isn't there some system
> setting that can be changed on the mac that changes the behavior? There
> must be some fix for this, I mean this is nuts if that's just the way it
> is and there really is no way around it.

Unfortunately there is no fix in 10.4. You could file a bug with
Apple, but I don't like your chances.

> Is there any documentation you can point me to that talks about this
> issue?

there might be something on http://www.apple.com/support

> My boss uses OSX and I don't think he's going to be happy if I just
> say, " there is no way around it", and don't say nothing else.

FWIW, the SMB client is noticeably improved in 10.5.

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James Peach | jorgar at gmail.com