SMB alternative
Ok after a hectic two weeks of no joy SMB in 10.5.5 I have given up.
Does any one know any way to install an alternative version of SMB into server 10.5.5.
I have spent untold hours trying to resolve the SMB issue that 10.5 has with no luck. I have spoken to apple and they appear know about it. The reports on the internet are all different and I have come to the conclusion that different programs react in different ways to the SMB sharing that 10.5 server provides. Some apps can write to the shares but not read from them. Others can read, but not write some can not do either.
I have tried just about every combination of permissions using acls, posix and propagating both. Tried this in OD mode and local dir mode Nothing fix's it. A college of mine came up against the same thing today with another windows program not being able to open files off a 10.5 server.
Another issue I have is my intranet which is a linux machine. It access pdf's stored on the server. It logs in with a user name and password using SMB, but again it can not load the pdf's because the SMB permissions are all wrong.
I came across this today while trying to find a solution. http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html I installed the demo and straight away the programs I am having trouble with work. Only problem is it seems to share out folders to users and not groups which does not help me with an 80+ user network.
So I am pretty much sitting with an xserve that is absolutely useless to me because I can not use it. Apple have told me I can not install 10.4 server onto the xserve because it will not work. True or not I don't know.
Really this needs to be sorted out and quick.
To quote apple
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/filesharing.html
"Sharing made easy.
It’s easy to share hard drives or individual folders and assign custom access permissions with Mac OS X Server. To facilitate collaboration, each group gets its own shared folder on the server. Whether they’re on Mac or PC systems, all group members can read and write to files in the shared folder, just as if they were using their own hard drive."
Blatantly not true. I am pretty annoyed with this now as I have to switch back to the 10.4 server and have no use for my new 10.5.5 xserve. Apple said they will not exchange it even though it does not do what they say it does. This xserve has been sitting doing nothing for the last 6 months because apple have yet to fix the issue.
If some one can solve my problem I will be more than happy, but if not what a waste of time. My advice would be to any one do not buy or upgrade to 10.5 server if you need SMB sharing in any way until this issue has been fixed.
Does any one know any way to install an alternative version of SMB into server 10.5.5.
I have spent untold hours trying to resolve the SMB issue that 10.5 has with no luck. I have spoken to apple and they appear know about it. The reports on the internet are all different and I have come to the conclusion that different programs react in different ways to the SMB sharing that 10.5 server provides. Some apps can write to the shares but not read from them. Others can read, but not write some can not do either.
I have tried just about every combination of permissions using acls, posix and propagating both. Tried this in OD mode and local dir mode Nothing fix's it. A college of mine came up against the same thing today with another windows program not being able to open files off a 10.5 server.
Another issue I have is my intranet which is a linux machine. It access pdf's stored on the server. It logs in with a user name and password using SMB, but again it can not load the pdf's because the SMB permissions are all wrong.
I came across this today while trying to find a solution. http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html I installed the demo and straight away the programs I am having trouble with work. Only problem is it seems to share out folders to users and not groups which does not help me with an 80+ user network.
So I am pretty much sitting with an xserve that is absolutely useless to me because I can not use it. Apple have told me I can not install 10.4 server onto the xserve because it will not work. True or not I don't know.
Really this needs to be sorted out and quick.
To quote apple
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/filesharing.html
"Sharing made easy.
It’s easy to share hard drives or individual folders and assign custom access permissions with Mac OS X Server. To facilitate collaboration, each group gets its own shared folder on the server. Whether they’re on Mac or PC systems, all group members can read and write to files in the shared folder, just as if they were using their own hard drive."
Blatantly not true. I am pretty annoyed with this now as I have to switch back to the 10.4 server and have no use for my new 10.5.5 xserve. Apple said they will not exchange it even though it does not do what they say it does. This xserve has been sitting doing nothing for the last 6 months because apple have yet to fix the issue.
If some one can solve my problem I will be more than happy, but if not what a waste of time. My advice would be to any one do not buy or upgrade to 10.5 server if you need SMB sharing in any way until this issue has been fixed.
xserve 2x3ghz quad core 14gig ram 2x80gig sas drives XRAID, Mac OS X (10.5.5)
