error code -36

I'm having the same problem when i try and save or copy to our Windows server.

Anything that has to do with Windows causes problems. It so frustrating. I frickin HATE windows.

I have yet to figure it out, but i'll let you know if i do. I have copies of files everywhere and don't know if i can delete them or not because I get this error. Then I still get the error when i see the files on the windows server? So I don't know if they copied ok, or not?

Very frustrating.

Not just a Mac to Windows problem. The fault seems to be in the way the OSX 10.6 Finder tries to connect to and authenticate SMB/CIFS shares on a lot of Windows servers and NAS boxes running SAMBA.

Several threads under Mac v 10.6 Snow Leopard > Getting Online and Networking.

Error -36 happens if you try to double click on a network file.

Problem seems to only occur with late 10.5 and 10.6.x. - I'm suffering too!

glad to find this post and will look under 10.6 Finder - I have exactly the same with accessing files on a NAS drive: thing is iPhoto and iTunes are fine - music and photo libraries of reasonable size are both on the NAS.

I rang Apple support at the weekend and they refused to log a trouble ticket as they said they wouldnt be able to investigate/confirm a problem due to the 3rd party equipment being involved.

Even the logic of "but two of your software products are producing different results" would not sway them!!

Not impressed!

Thanks

I think this is related to the problem I posted in: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2250808&tstart=0 because my husband remembers seeing an error code something like -36.

but I was able to replicate it locally, by copying the files from the external volume to my MacBook HD using "cp -r" and then trying to copy again from the local folder using the Finder to another local folder on the HD.

I wonder if it is some sort of permissions/extended attributes thing that percolates through from the Windows box to the files being opened/copied onto the Mac.