Hi,
We all know that Apple has been unable to use SAMBA now that it is protected by the Open Source GNU what ever and so it wrote it's own version of SAMBA which it put in Snow Leopard and Lion.
Has anybody here been able to get it to work with a Linux based Server SAMBA Share? (Or work at all really?)
I have personally contacted Apple Support after Snow Leopard came out over this very well documented bug in their SAMBA implementation. They escalated it to their Engineers (after charging me for the privilege) and after two months, got back to me saying that they were able to reproduce the fault, but they were not planning to fix it, and refunded me the money.
I work in an office with 15 Macs from Leopard up to Lion as well as 2 Windows Machines. We have been using a Linux File Server for years, quite succesfully, until Snow Leopard came along.
Now if you create a new folder on the Server, it wont let you name it. (It says you dont have permission - when you do - and leaves it as untitled folder).
If you create a new folder on your desktop, name it and drag it into the Server, it will let you do that, but my staff are all complaining (and rightly so) that you should not have to do this. There are many other little problems with permissions as well that only affect Snow Leopard and Lion. All of the Leopard (and the one remaining Tiger) have no problems at all.
Has anyone been able to use Snow Leopard or Lion to connect to a server without these bugs?
I am eagerly looking for a solution to this problem.
Cheers, Al.
We all know that Apple has been unable to use SAMBA now that it is protected by the Open Source GNU what ever and so it wrote it's own version of SAMBA which it put in Snow Leopard and Lion.
Has anybody here been able to get it to work with a Linux based Server SAMBA Share? (Or work at all really?)
I have personally contacted Apple Support after Snow Leopard came out over this very well documented bug in their SAMBA implementation. They escalated it to their Engineers (after charging me for the privilege) and after two months, got back to me saying that they were able to reproduce the fault, but they were not planning to fix it, and refunded me the money.
I work in an office with 15 Macs from Leopard up to Lion as well as 2 Windows Machines. We have been using a Linux File Server for years, quite succesfully, until Snow Leopard came along.
Now if you create a new folder on the Server, it wont let you name it. (It says you dont have permission - when you do - and leaves it as untitled folder).
If you create a new folder on your desktop, name it and drag it into the Server, it will let you do that, but my staff are all complaining (and rightly so) that you should not have to do this. There are many other little problems with permissions as well that only affect Snow Leopard and Lion. All of the Leopard (and the one remaining Tiger) have no problems at all.
Has anyone been able to use Snow Leopard or Lion to connect to a server without these bugs?
I am eagerly looking for a solution to this problem.
Cheers, Al.