A Samba password, which must first be obtained by clicking on the Samba Access link on the respective system's Webtools page below. The Samba password, separate from the RCI or Eden password, will be sent to the account owner's e-mail address. From the Mac OS X Toolbar click on the Go menu and select Connect to server. The Connect To Server. I have had nothing but trouble with SMB (Windows Sharing) services in Mac OS X Server 10.7. These problems were supposedly solved in 10.7.3, but my particular issues seem to still be there in several cases (Windows XP name browsing not working, Guest access not working, performance issues, dropped connections), and may be related to the Windows XP (versus Windows Vista/7) clients I'm dealing with.
Connecting to Windows on OS X. Once you've gotten everything set up you can connect to the other computer and begin sharing files. Connecting to a server on OS X is easy! In Finder, select Go and Connect to Server (Command+K) On the Conntect to Server dialog, type in smb:// followed by the name of the computer you wish to connect to.
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Below are suggested parameters to use in smb.conf file of the Samba server to improve operability with Mac OS X clients.Note that some parameters may not work with your version of Samba - read the smb.conf and vfs_fruit man pages (on Linux) for your system.Other than those shown in the [TimeMachineBackup] share below, I recommend you include all parameters in the [Global] section of smb.conf. For ease of copy > paste, a clean smb.conf section is included at the bottom of this page.
Apple extensions ('AAPL') run under SMB2/3 protocol, make that the minimum (probably shouldn't be running SMB1 anyway...) - defaults to SMB2_2 in Samba 4.11+:
Apple extensions require support for extended attributes(xattr) - defaults to yes in Samba 4.9+:
Load in modules (order is critical!) and enable AAPL extensions:
How to store OS X metadata:
For additional setting see the manpage vfs_fruit.
Server icon in Finder (added in Samba 4.5):
File cleanup:
For Spotlight backend indexing using Elastisearch (added in Samba 4.12):
See smb.conf for 4.12 for other Elastisearch parameters.Gnome tracker is still available (= tracker) or no indexing (= noindex), the default.
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For Time Machine backup share (added in Samba 4.8):
As far as I know, testparm will not validate vfs_fruit parameters. (my server runs an old version of Samba :-), but after you have built your smb.conf, you can check for errors anyway with
#: testparm
or #: testparm -v
(which will give you the defaults as well.Here is the smb.conf code - NOTE - THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE SMB.CONF!!!
Mac Smb Server
From Finder, connect to your Samba server using 'smb://User@Server'.Note that TM backups over smb may now be possible with your server.Other Mac models can be found in '/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Info.plist'. Use 'Quick Look', Xcode or plutil to view or convert plist.
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