I only used Apple's utilities and command line. I never did trust SWAT as it always messed up my config files pretty badly.
I am also having several shares mounted to the OS X workstations both from our fileserver (Linux/Samba 3) our Apple Fileserver (Panther) and 2 Windows Servers (windows 2000). I am not experiencing the problems you describe. I never loose connection to the Servers, all the shares remain on the desktop unless you "eject" them.
can you further describe how you are mounting? I use an apple script at login on the OS X workstations that does several things including executing a shellscript that mounts all shares for that user...
Tom
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Well, I experience the following problems, which I've seen many people gripe about on Apple's discussion board.
In the first place some shares are on Windows servers and some are on Linux servers w/Samba.
Also, note that I am using Automounting, but mounting the shares by going through Finder > Networks > [Domain Name] > [Server Name] >
at which point if it is the first time after a boot or something, I have to push the Connect button. Once on connectivity is pretty good, but sometimes it is lost, in which case a folder for the share remains which is inaccessible. The only cure seems to be a reboot, which really sucks. Perhaps you know of a way to avoid that? HUPping xinet.d perhaps?
Also, have you had any success using SWAT? I've tried setting shares up using SWAT and that really seems to mess things up. Perhaps Apple doesn't really want you to use SWAT, but their own built in utilities.
Curtis Vaughan
On 03 Mar, 2004, at 21:57, Thomas Mikl wrote:
I am having roughly 25 PCs connecting (Win2k, WinXP) that automount 4 volumes from the server. So far no problems.
Also connecting 8 Macs using OS X, they also connect via smb. No problemo there.
And last but not least: 4 Linux Clients running debian. They also mount via smb and also no Problems.
Hope that helps Tom
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Yeh, I'm not worried about OS X server, but client computers accessing Samba shares.
Curtis Vaughan
On 02 Mar, 2004, at 23:43, Thomas Mikl wrote:
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
Are there any OS X users on this list, who are having real success with Apple's implementation of Samba?
I would like to start a discussion about several problems with Samba on OS 10.3.
Curtis Vaughan
Successfully set up OS X 10.3.2 Server as a Windows PDC, including several file shares, logon scripts .... well everything there is and had not a single problem.
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