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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Kimball Larsen <kimball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: February 2, 2010 7:58:49 PM MST
> To: Andy Liebman <andyliebman@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Samba] OS X Clients Can't Create Sub-Directories
>
>
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Andy Liebman wrote:
>
>>
>> Kimball Larsen wrote:
>>> I'm running samba on a local linux server, with a bunch of shares. Over
>>> the last several years, this has worked perfectly in our heterogenous
>>> network of OS X and Windows. All my windows clients still work perfectly -
>>> my users can mount the samba shares and create, rename, move etc files and
>>> folders.
>>> However, recently (starting yesterday) my OS X clients are unable to rename
>>> any sub directories on any of my shares.
>>> So, if I have a structure like this:
>>> Share Root
>>> FooFolder
>>> Bar Folder
>>>
>>> My OS X users are able to create and rename directories in the share root,
>>> but are unable to rename folders they create in sub directories.
>>>
>>> So, if my OS X user navigates to FooFolder and tries to create a new folder
>>> there, a new folder is created called "untitled folder", but I'm unable to
>>> rename it. Every time I do, the finder says "You don't have permission to
>>> rename the item "untitled folder".
>>>
>>> But, again, I can create and rename folders in the root of the share
>>> without issue.
>>> Here are the relevant bits from my smb.conf (Neighborhood is the name of
>>> the share):
>>>
>>> [global]
>>> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>> load printers = no guest account = nobody
>>> passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
>>> *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
>>> socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>>> obey pam restrictions = yes
>>> encrypt passwords = true
>>> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>>> passdb backend = tdbsam
>>> dns proxy = no
>>> delete readonly = yes
>>> server string = %h server
>>> invalid users = root
>>> workgroup = lappygroup
>>> security = share
>>> syslog = 0
>>> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>>> max log size = 1000
>>> unix extensions = no
>>>
>>>
>>> [Neighborhood]
>>> comment = Who are the people in your neighborhood...
>>> path = /mnt/brick/Neighborhood
>>> public = yes
>>> writable = yes
>>> create mask = 0777
>>> directory mask = 0777
>>> force user = nobody
>>> force group = nogroup
>>>
>>>
>>> And here are the permissions on the root of the share:
>>> root@jake:/mnt/brick# ls -la | grep Neighborhood
>>> drwxrwxrwx 46 nobody nogroup 2360 2010-02-02 15:31 Neighborhood
>>>
>>> And the "Advertising" directory where I want to create a sub directory.
>>> root@jake:/mnt/brick/Neighborhood# ls -la | grep Advertising
>>> drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nogroup 144 2010-02-02 15:49 Advertising
>>>
>>> And the resulting "untitled folder" that is created by the OS X client.
>>> root@jake:/mnt/brick/Neighborhood/Advertising# ls -la
>>> total 11
>>> drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nogroup 144 2010-02-02 15:49 .
>>> drwxrwxrwx 46 nobody nogroup 2360 2010-02-02 15:31 ..
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 6148 2009-05-04 10:03 .DS_Store
>>> drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 1064 2008-12-17 15:38 Lead Tracking
>>> drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 48 2010-02-02 15:49 untitled folder
>>>
>>>
>>> What should I be checking?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> -- Kimball
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> Hey Andy,
>
>> Hello Kimball,
>>
>> What version of Samba Server are you running?
>
> Samba version 3.4.0, running on ubuntu 9.10
>
>
>>
>> What version of OS X are you running? There have been huge changes in the
>> use (and setting) of extended attributes with Snow Leopard. These can cause
>> all sorts of issues that were not there before. Have your Mac clients just
>> updated to Snow Leopard?
>
> The ones having the problems described above are all Snow Leopard, but were
> upgraded some time ago - shortly after Snow Leopard came out last year. It
> is possible that the .DS_Store files you mention below are only just now
> beginning to conflict, as we don't typically create new directories on these
> shares. I'll investigate that next.
>
> There are 2 10.5 OS X machines on the network as well, and today when I
> started mucking around with the samba server their finders both went belly-up
> - had to reboot both macs to get their finders to start and run again. I
> presume there are similar problems on OS 10.5?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Kimball
>
>
>
>>
>> I see that there is a .DS_Store file in the directory. The permissions on
>> those files can prevent User B from accessing a share that User A accessed
>> (or at least the directories in that share that were accessed by User A).
>> In a shared environment accessed by multiple OS X servers, it's usually best
>> to disable the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes, as the wrong
>> permissions on these files can prevent users from doing things they expect
>> to be able to do.
>>
>> There are many postings on the net about how to disable the creation of the
>> .DS_Store files, for example:
>>
>> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051130083652119
I have removed all .DS_Store files, and disabled creation of new ones on all
the macs in the office.
I'm still having the issue where I cannot create sub directories as described
above. Other thoughts?
Thanks!
-- Kimball
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