From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 0:20:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561C737B414 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:20:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.destar.net (240-7-237-24.gci.net [24.237.7.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40E0543F85 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonr@destar.net) Received: (qmail 21626 invoked by uid 5000); 5 Feb 2003 08:21:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (192.168.1.1) by mail.destar.net with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 08:21:58 -0000 Subject: Re: samba serving mac and windows From: Jon Reynolds To: "Denis N. Peplin" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200302051100.19638.info@volginfo.ru> References: <1044428465.3125.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200302051100.19638.info@volginfo.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1044433003.3125.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 04 Feb 2003 23:16:44 -0900 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 23:00, Denis N. Peplin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:01, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > We have a FreeBSD4.7 box setup as a fileserver using samba, this works > > great for our windows users but not so good with our mac users. The > > problem is this: > > > > A windows user can take a document off of the fileserver and edit that > > file and save it back to the fileserver, no problem. > > > > A Mac user can connect to the fileserver and edit the same document but > > when trying to save back to the fileserver they are asked to rename the > > file because one by that name already exists. > > Mac clients often buggy and have poor support for smb networks. > Try netatalk, native server for apple networks. > /usr/ports/net/netatalk We also tried netatalk with the same results. We did try some basic tests with moving files and copying back and forth we would get the error "file locked or in use". This seems to be a mac osx issue as more than a few websites have threads talking of file corruption between the mac and freebsd. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message