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I'm in a similar position at work, with a mixed environment. We use WinShortcutter, which is freeware. The allows you to right-click on a UNC path (such as \\FileServer01\topfolder\subfolder\shared.doc) and Open as Windows Link:
It's quite configurable as well, and allows drive mappings (so when you are sent a link that starts S:/folder, it will allow you ...
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You could install Samba3 through Macports and then you'll have smbpasswd available again.
Install Xcode from Apple - If you download Xcode from the Mac App Store, be sure to use the Xcode preferences to subsequently download the command line tools or use the xcode-select tool to get the BSD command line tools placed in your path. MacPorts needs make, gcc ...
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If you're using Lion, you can use smbutil:
usage: smbutil [-hv] subcommand [args]
where subcommands are:
help display help on specified subcommand
lookup resolve NetBIOS name to IP address
status resolve IP address or DNS name to NetBIOS names
view list resources on specified host
dfs list DFS referrals
identity identity ...
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Mount the share that you want and then open "System Preferences - Users and groups - Login items"
Click the + symbol to add a new login item and then select the network share from the window that opens. The volume should open on every login.
Check the box next to it to hide the item. This should keep the Finder window from appearing.
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I ran across this today which is one way to do it.
In summary for Mountain Lion:
Edit the file /etc/auto_master
Within add /- auto_smb
Create /etc/auto_smb
Within add /Volumes/mount_point -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:pass@smbserver/share
The author goes onto mention a second method using the vifs command, but I've never tried that one and it seems to do ...
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We have had a very similar (if not the same) problem ever since we upgraded our server to Windows 2008 R2. (WinServer 2003 was fine.) However, the main symptom we encountered, is somewhat different:
We work in a mixed Mac / PC environment. Desktop operators work on Mac only, whereas our backend services are Windows based. Also some manual operations are ...
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It depends on how this was set up to launch. From boot, Go > Connect to Server > (click the dropbox) and select clear recent servers, if not using any. Then go to System Preferences > Accounts and see if there is something set up in the Login Items tab related to the server and clear. Restart and test. If it continues I'd check Macintosh HD > Library > ...
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Chad,
Thanks for the link. Petrock had the solution. Here it is:
I used the free Pref Setter app to edit the plist file.
You probably used one of those "set hidden finder features"
apps/utils, didn't you... naughty person you is... If you open up
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist with Property List Editor
and see an entry for ...
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“The operation can’t be completed because the item is in use” when deleting from Samba mounted drive
There are actually two messages you're referring to:
"This operation can't be completed because the item is in use"
and
"The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to
access some of the items."
If you see the first one - I sometimes get that message too. Quite often this can be resolved by running: sudo lsof | grep ...
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You are correct. Since both server volumes have the same name, Login Items will think you are trying to add the same exact shares to Login Items.
To get around this, create an Automator application that follows this basic pattern:
Then drop this Automator application into your Login Items. Every time that you login going forward it will run the script, ...
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Feels a bit cheeky answering my own question but I've spent enough time searching through boards that don't go anywhere to know how frustrating that can be.
It's not a permissions issues, I like a lot people assumed it was a permissions issue. It's file locking. The Mac opens a file that's hosted on the server and closes it, but the directory above the ...
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You don't have to manually edit a configuration file; it's possible to share drives via SMB using the Sharing control panel. Under the File Sharing service, hit the "Options..." button to enable SMB:
This will make your shared folders accessible via SMB to the specified users. It shouldn't matter what the source filesystem is (FAT, HFS, or other) as long ...
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To be honest it sounds like it could be a bug in DropBox, and you should contact them to find a solution (and please post the solution here if they give you one).
Why do you have the DropBox folder on the server? Why not have a dropbox folder on the server and a completely separate one on your notebook?
Perhaps it's not what you want, but it seems like ...
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Solution: Join the Mountain Lion system to the Active Directory domain. User can still log in with their local user name, but when connecting to smb://servername, OSX will stop defaulting to .local for credentials. This is new to ML, and I think it is a bug, but this is the only solution that we have found.
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We faced the same issue. At the office you can't see the shares, but connect through smb. Through a VPN this ain't possible. The answer is in the length of the share-name. Mountain lion can only see them if the length of the sharename is 12 characters or less. Seems like a bug to me. Changing the sharenames is what we did to resolve this issue.
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Does the server has Remote Desktop enabled? If so, your users could open an RDP connection to the server and change their password.
You could also use this workaround, as Lion (as you wrote) does not comes with smbpasswd.
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I'm going to assume its windows server as you're mounting a wwwroot. Ensure your user david.hall has file permission access to the correct hierarchy not just share permissions. This is usually why stuff mounts as read-only from the win side.
OS X just mounts the share as normal unless you specify otherwise.
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Did you have a look at the man page?
Shouldn't smbutil lookup [-w host] name do the job?
Global options are as follows:
-h Print a short help message.
-v Verbose output.
The commands and local options are:
help command
Print usage information about command.
lookup [-w host] [-t node_type] [-e] name
Resolve the given ...
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I, too, find this a pain with my QNAP box. FYI the firmware has now been updated to 3.6.0 released just a few days ago, and there is some noticeable improvement with the update. However, you may consider using the iSCSI feature among the QNAP settings to make the file shares appear as a hard drive showing up on your desktop for better speed. I've noticed ...
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From here
(specifically noted to help with Snow Leopard / SMB / Windows Server 2008)
Launch the Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal).
You can use the vi or the pico editors included with Mac OS X to edit the smb.conf file by typing sudo vi /etc/smb.conf or sudo pico /etc/smb.conf. [Note, as always when changing system files, back up the original ...
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There is USBG-MAC-PC cable which does exactly what you want. It doesn't require installation of any drivers or any intervention of your company admins.
Here some guy shows how it works: http://www.usbgear.com/link/index.html .
Note, that he shows different cable model, the one that you need is on the bottom of the page.
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Have a look at the answers to this question: Auto sync local files to remote
many of those suggestions are also relevant to you.
Another approach, if all you are trying to do is get Spotlight to index the SAMBA share, is to try running the commands:
mdutil /Volumes/x -i on
mdutil /Volumes/x -p on
where x is the Volume name of the drive.
I have heard ...
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Until Apple makes Spotlight available for network drives, the best solution is Devon technologies EasyFind. We have it installed on all our campus Macs for just this purpose. It is fast, can save search parameters, and best of all - free.
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Look at http://netatalk-ddwrt.blogspot.com/
Try the builds mentioned and install them on your router with the following commands:
ipkg install libdb_4.7.25-3_mipsel.ipk
ipkg install netatalk_2.2.0-2_mipsel.ipk
make sure that you use
ipkg install libdb_4.7.25-3_mipsel.ipk -force-downgrade
in case your libdb version is newer than 4.7.24.
Best regards,
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