Samba in Lion and ML Server keeps disconnecting, PC InDesign crashes

I have not been so lucky with SMBUp.

Windows clients are having lots of permissions errors. Has anyone else been having these errors?

"this folder has properties that can't be copies to the new location"

and

"you require permission from Unix User\ladmin to make changes to this folder"

I think the Samba settings hold the key but there are so many to choose from:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch08.html

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Morgs

SMBup is fantastic! It handles the installation BUT the configuration is entirely up to the user. It took me a solid 2-3 days to find the correct Samba settings for my needs. I am not sure if the error you are receiving is tied to this one "are you sure you want to copy this file without its properties". It tooks some digging around but ultimately I appeased the WIN7 system with adding this string into the OS X Samba config:

"streams_xattr" into the "vfs object" field.

My error has to do with WIN7 NTFS volumes storing ADS information which cannot get transferred to a non-NTFS volume. From what I read, this variable copies the ADS into an alternate data stream, thus appeasing WIN7 NTFS client.

I hope this can help.

As for the permissions. You will need to elaborate further on your user accounts, group accounts and their respective permissions across each system you are using. In my, the user account and it's permissions are universal across all systems and platforms, so I merely had to match the permissions in the Samba config. Once I did that, smooth sailing.

-M

We tried some many things and eventually got it all to work but I am not sure I could remember everything in an effort to tell anyone what worked.

Turning off 'acl check permissions' for each share certianly did help.

The big key though was understanding that installing smbup is far from the end of your work. Understanding Samba and there for the setting choices you might need to make is where it is all at.

I found too that maybe you need to hit that Save All button more than you might first think, so I started hitting after everything.

Good luck to all that need to implement this.

Lets hope that SMB2 in OS X Mavericks make life a whole lot easier.

Thanks

Morgs

I have a small office with windows 7 clients sharing off a new 10.8.5 server. We have been experiencing the same problems with disconnections, large pdfs crashing, etc. I have created the SessTimeout entry with a decimal value of 36000 which has fixed some of the issues with the pdfs crashing but I'm now seeing new errors. When someone tries to hit the back button in their explorer, they get "An error occurred while reconnecting to F: to \\computername\shared folder Microsoft Windows Network: The local device name is already in use. This connection has not been restored." message. They can then close the window, reopen explorer and then renavigate to the folder but this can be time consuming every time. Also, Windows clients are no longer able to delete pdf and other files from the server. They will delete them but the files will just reappear after a minute or two.

Is anyone else seeing behavior like this after changing the timeout parameters? If so, is there a tweak that can address this?

Or should I consider moving SMBUp which should hopefully fix all these things or will they? Or does anyone have experience with Mavericks server and is there a new implemenation of SMB that works better than ML Server?

Everything worked great with Snow Leopard Server. Sigh. Any insight or suggestions is always greatly appreciated.

We fould that the only thing that worked in the end was implementing SMBup but getting the settings right was a lot of trial and error.

We have not tested Marveicks Server in a mixed environment yet but I have seen some reports that it is not yet the SMB saviour that it is supposed to be.