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How can I make Samba's vfs fruit work with large macOS extended attributes on a Linux kernel?
I have a macOS client (12.6.7) with APFS filesystem that supports large extended attributes (one attribute value being over 68 MB in a test).
I have a NAS server with Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS with ...
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Samba can not parse path when connect Time machine
I used freshtomato on Netgear R7000, and I wanted to make it as a time machine, so i installed Samba and Avahi, so I can find my hard drive in system preferences of macOS. But, mac keept asking me the ...
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How can a macOS SMB share be mounted on Linux so that symbolic links can be created on it?
There is lots of conflicting information about it and it seems to depend a lot on the versions of various modules, and specific mount options.
I'm not looking for the symlink "emulation" (mfsymlinks),...
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On Linux Samba share accessed from macOS, macOS has weird file permissions
The things I changed in my smb.conf on my linux machine are:
unix extensions = no
map archive = no
map system = no
map hidden = no
[myshare]
path = /home/bob/myshare
browseable = yes
read only = no
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Samba file permissions: Linux Server, Mac Client
I have Samba running on a Linux server, and access the files from a Mac client. I don't have any problem accessing the files over Samba, except that on the Mac, all files show up with the executable ...
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Deleting Ubuntu folder symlink deletes target folder's contents when done via OSX & Samba
I have a problem where deleting a folder symlink on a mounted Samba share also deletes the target folder's contents when accessed from my Macbook. This is actually a problem I have had for many years, ...
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What are the things I have to be aware of when changing a file servers file protocol from AFP to SMB?
In a Mac dominated network, I want to change the servers (Samba 4.1.20) file service from AFP only to SMB only due to AFP being more and more deprecated in macOS Sierra.
The main problem are the ...
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Can't access Linux Samba share from OSX
I have a samba share in an arch linux server, that I cannot access from OSX, but I can access it normally from any Windows machine. When I try to access it from the terminal (from OSX) with the ...
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How to set umask for a samba mount?
On linux (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid) I want to mount a samba share to a remote Mac (OSX) such that files created on the share have full read/write permissiona across user/group/other (like umask 0)
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How to share my Linux home directory with Mac OS X
I have an internal development server running Debian Testing. Some times, I find I'd like to do some "on the box" development. I can (have) setup a VNC server and do development that way, but some ...
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Sharing FUSE filesystem with Samba; Mac OS X cannot access it properly
I created a simple FUSE filesystem -- read-only, and the only thing it really does to files (a bunch of audio files) is changing their names. The filesystem is hosted on a Linux server, where it works ...
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Can't see SMB directory in Mac Finder when logged in
I setup SMB to show a "Media" section
[Media]
path = /home/Share/Media
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
valid users = stef
guest ok = no
Currently, when I check the Shared entry ...
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How to I create an open smb share on a Windows 7 box?
I have a Windows 7 (Home Premium if that matters) box witch I want to set up a SMB share on for a network media player to play videos from. Ideally I would like this to be open so it can be copied ...
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Samba, CentOS and OSX
I have a Linux server on the web with root/terminal access.
I am trying to make samba work on that machine, so I can have a drive on my MacOSX box mapped to a shared folder on the server.
I have ...
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Browser link to Windows share in Ubuntu and OS X
In Windows, I am able to create a bookmark in any browser to a file on a network share, like so:
file://network/path/to/file/example.htm
This works well in Windows because it avoids needing a ...
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