Date: 17 Mar 2003 04:10:28 -0900 From: Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Matthew Ryan <matt@overdose.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS X clients - Samba Arrrrggg!! Message-ID: <1047906627.1963.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3E75C831.1040904@potentialtech.com> References: <9804DEB6-5874-11D7-BF01-0030654886A6@overdose.com> <3E75C831.1040904@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 04:05, Bill Moran wrote: > Matthew Ryan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm running a Samba server under FreeBSD Release 4.8, so far everything > > has been just spanky but I added a new share yesterday and now I have an > > odd problem with my OS X clients. > > > > Actually I only tried to copy files to the server from an OS X machine > > for the first time yesterday so I don't actually know how long the > > problem has been around. I do remember having some trouble organising > > files on the server from an OS X client a week or so again. > > Well, I just tested here with my IMac vs. FreeBSD/Samba server and I > could not repeat the problem. I'm using Mac OS 10.2.4, FreeBSD 4.8-RC > (from March 3) and Samba 2.2.4_1 from ports ... looks like it's time > to update that. > Actually, I seem to remember some documented problems with certain > versions of Mac OS and SMB shares. Is your version of Mac OS up to > date? > > > In fact, shortly after the server crashed "No more mbufs?" I restarted > > and it's been fine since. > > You may want to raise the number of mbufs available on this server. > > > The problem is this: > > > > When I try to copy files from the OS X clients (and I have tried 2 to be > > sure), I see a > > > > "Could not complete the operation because you don't have enough > > privileges" error. > > I tried copy and create with both files and folders with no problems. > > > Of corse, I am sure that the user I am logged on to the server as has > > full read write access to the directory concerned. To be sure I have > > logged on as different users. I find this problem in the Home > > Directories as well! > > > > Just to further confuse things - I am able to create a new folder and > > delete it again, although I am never permitted to put a file in it. And > > even stranger - when the copy fails it leaves a 0k file at the > > destination with name of the file I try to copy. > > This sounds vaguely familiar. I can't remember details, but I seem to > recall installing a server a one point where files would be created, and > when the client actually tried to write to the file, they had no > permissions. The error was somewhere in the permissions and create > ownership settings in Samba. Basically, Samba was being told to create > all files as another user, with somewhat strict permissions, but then > the permissions were too strict to access the file. > > Check the unix permissions on the 0 byte file that gets created. If they > would prevent writing to that file, check your file creation options in > samba. > > > All this works perfectly on Win XP, Win 200 or Win 98 clients. > > Are the Win machines logging in differently than the Macs? > > > We also run a Win 200AS file server and the OS X clients seem to have no > > problem coping files to shares on that machine. > > > > Confused? - I am! > > Yeah, so was I ... assuming that you're having the same problem I was. > > > Chances are that I'm doing something daft - usually the way but I can't > > see what. > > Check the perms and the samba options. I may be wrong, but that's what it > sounds like. I just got over this problem about a month ago. What I believe the problem was is that on the samba server in the shared folder I found some .(dot) files like FBCFolderLock and .DStore. When I deleted all these dot files that the Macs had created I no longer got the permissions problem. As always, back up before trying anything. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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