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Essayons Author

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Problems with SMB and file sharing in Lion

I have an HP OfficeJet 8500 Premier that is only 2 years old. One of the things I loved about it was the ability to scan documents to a folder on my Mac. Unfortunately, the only filesharing HP supports is SMB. In SnowLeopard, SMB worked great (as long as SMB was set up in "Sharing").

Now, however, I cannot connect my HP printer/scanner to my Mac via SMB. I have rebooted my Mac, rebooted my printer, turned on then off the SMB sharing, tried to re-setup the scan-to folder on my printer...all to no avail.

One other oddity--when I try to turn off my SMB account (my login account) in sharing, it won't let me. It asks for a password then unchecks the account briefly, then re-checks the account (leaving it on). I have the opposite problem on my MBP--when I try to turn on SMB sharing and select the account, it asks for a password and briefly checks the account box, then un-checks it.

Anyone have any solutions for getting an HP printer/scanner to Scan-to a Mac running 10.7?

Thanks,

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 24, 2011 4:26 PM

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Outsider

Level 1

115 points

Jan 29, 2015 8:03 AM in response to Essayons

Okay so I've recreated all my users and have gotten everything set up thus far. At this point I believe I only have one more question: do I simply add the top directory of my share (similar to my current Server file sharing setup) and the permissions will retain from the ACLs?

P.S. I just perused the Advanced Server Configuration tool and noticed there was an option for profile acls; how is that different from the group/user ACLs I have currently?

Thanks again.

Daniel

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Jan 30, 2015 7:27 AM in response to Eduardo Gutierrez De O.

P.S. I just perused the Advanced Server Configuration tool and noticed there was an option for profile acls; how is that different from the group/user ACLs I have currently?

Thanks again.

Daniel

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115 points

Feb 3, 2015 10:37 AM in response to Eduardo Gutierrez De O.

Well after reassigning all of my "Services-only" accounts over to "Local Accounts" in order for samba to play well with them, I've run into a problem that I had no idea would present itself. As I've mentioned previously, our permissions are a bit more complex by necessity, and as such we have some members who are in five or six Server-created groups. Having said that, I know that there aren't any users who belong to more than nine or ten groups total (maximum, including 'staff'), yet SMBup is giving me an error message on the first few members that I tried to create in Samba. The error is stating on every single user thus far (even one I know is only a member of five total groups) that "the user has more than 15 groups assigned to it by Mac OS X...."; for brevity's sake, I'm including an image taken by my phone (unfortunately due to protocols I've put in place for our security, a screen grab was impossible). What is your provided solution to this error? Should I be downloading a newer version of Samba, etc.? Also, I'm not sure that I can even create user accounts from within SMBup, and the ad hoc suggestion does nothing for my permissions given that we have multiple members on multiple groups, and having a single "share user" for an entire group seems asinine considering the implications it would have on file-locking, etc.

Finally, when I test SMBup at home on my PC and two Yosemite machines I was able to connect to each other perfectly fine. However, the moment I put the program and Samba on my Mavericks Server, nothing could connect or even see the computer via NETBIOS. It could have been a setting I may have missed but it was completely nonresponsive to file sharing or network discovery. I understand that SMBup prompts the user that it will shut off Apple's iteration of SMB, but I experienced a complete inability to connect whether the checkmark on Apple's Preferences for File Sharing is on or off (not SMB or AFP, simply the file sharing setting).

ab1900

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4 points

May 15, 2016 12:48 AM in response to wrxtasy

Thanks heaps. This was a real help getting my HP M277DW to scan to my Mac. Running Mavericks OS10.9.5. Did the usual file sharing sequence. Then in the browser printer tool I set up the scan folder link using the path:

\\MACBOOKPRO-xxxx\Macintosh%20HD\path\to\folder\

Name of the Mac is from the Network WINS page. DHCP was set to auto IP address.

Problems with SMB and file sharing in Lion