Mapping A Network drive and getting error 36

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Mapping A Network drive and getting error 36

Hi
i need some help as i am getting really frustrated

I have a iomega network drive that i have had connected into my router via an ethernet network cable from the drive to the network port in the router, it was then mapped to my windows PC and then i could save documents onto it. I have managed to connect to the network drive via the mac, and i can see all the files on the hard drive and i can drag them off the drive onto the apple mac, but when i try to drag documents onto the drive from the mac i get the following error

Finder cant complete the operation because some data in "file name" can't be read or written (error code-36)

when i load up windows on my mac via the boot camp, the network drive works perfectly and i can drag and drop documents on it. Just cant work it on the mac

Has anyone come accross this before, or do you know what could be causing this. I mapped it by going into finder and then connecting to server and entering the IP address of the network drive

any help would be gratefully appreciated

thanks
James
PS I am using the new snow leopard

MB418B, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 1:03 PM

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Oct 17, 2009 4:57 AM in response to JamesMac54

How is the drive formatted?

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Oct 17, 2009 12:50 PM in response to JamesMac54

Hi James,

i also have a network attached storage (no name product) which is using NAS-Basic 49B2 Loader 70. I've updated two MacBooks up to SnowLeopard (one time Update form Tiger and one time Leopard). Both systems could have access (read and write) to that NAS. But after i've updated to SnowLeopard, i just could connect to the NAS and read. By the way, now i can only copy files to my local drive, i can't access files stored on the NAS. When i click to a ZIP-file or another document, i just get a message that the application could not be found. When i want to write files to my NAS, there's the "error 36" you've mentioned. I'm using Samba-File-Sharing with the NAS, the harddisk inside is 400 GB and formatted with FAT32.
When i boot my old G3 PowerMac blue and white (using Tiger), i still can write files to the NAS, so the NAS is working well. The problem is the Samba-Client builtin SnowLeopard. So i think, lots of other people using a NAS with Linux and Samba, will also have this problems.
I'm waiting, maybe 10.6.2 can solve the problem.

Jan

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