smb sharing problem

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smb sharing problem

I have started having problems connecting to my 10.4 server SMB shares across the internet. Trying to connect via the finder (Apple+K), it does nothing for about 5 minutes, then gives me the following error: "The finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "smb://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)."

AFP filesharing is working fine.

Any advice?

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 17, 2006 6:34 AM

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Answer 1

lythaby

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Oct 17, 2006 9:15 AM in response to Barry Burciul

Is the Windows(SMB) permission set-up properly in the share, within workgroup manager /sharing?.

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Barry Burciul Author

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Oct 17, 2006 10:42 AM in response to lythaby

I think permissions are set up correctly. For the folders in question:

Share this item and its contents: yes
Enable acl's on this volume: yes

Owner: admin, read & write
Group: staff, read & write
Everyone: doesn't work regardless of how I set this

ACL: staff allow read and write, admin allow full control

Windows file settings: share this item using SMB, and allow SMB guest access are on. Enable oplocks and strict locking are off.

Enable network mounting of this share point: yes.

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Barry Burciul Author

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Oct 17, 2006 10:59 AM in response to Barry Burciul

Local users (same subnet) can connect via smb. I'm just having this problem across the internet. I don't think it's a firewall issue: temporarily disabling the server firewall didn't help.

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Camelot

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Oct 17, 2006 3:19 PM in response to Barry Burciul

You're sharing an SMB volume over the internet?

I don't mean to sound rude, but are you nuts? 🙂

I can't think of anyone, anywhere who would advocate this setup, especially since you're enabling guest access, too.

If you really, really, really, really, really need to do it, have you checked your port forwarding on your router? and have you checked with your ISP to see if they have a clue, and if they're actively blocking port 139. Hopefully they are, since that will force you to use a different protocol.

If you need to provide file access to remote users, consider enabling the VPN server built into Mac OS X Server and having the users connect over VPN. That way they appear as a local user, the data transfer is encrypted over the internet and you can control access to the resources.

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lythaby

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Oct 18, 2006 7:56 AM in response to Camelot

I was assuming this was over a VPN, if not then yes, you are mad!

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