SMB weirdness

andy_devs · #1 June 12th, 2008, 05:38 AM

I have 10 Mac users on system 10.3.9 with read/write permissions on Windows 2K3 shares. Inside the shares there are number of nested folders that have been causing problems with the Mac guys. These are:
1) can't save MS Excel files
2) 'file in use' error when trying to move files between folders
3) Previews of InDesign documents are not visible when browsing the folder
4) Can't rename files
The Mac guys are connecting via smb.
These problems first started on an older Win2000 server and we have recently upgraded to Win2003 on a new box. It seems like these problems have been inherited after the data was copied over. The Windows Administrator has told me that all the permissions are correct, and that he has re-applied them.

If anyone can shed any light on resolving this I'd be really grateful.

**Giaguara** · #2 June 12th, 2008, 06:25 AM

This could partly a legacy issue with Finder's problems since at least 10.1...

If you use Terminal to connect from Mac OS X to these smb shares, will any of these issues behave differently?
smbclient //fqdn/sharename -W workgroupname -U username
If you rename files in Terminal, do you get the same error when trying to rename, or will renaming be more successful? I suspect renaming them will work.
Moving files between folders should work when using smbclient in Terminal as well.

andy_devs · #3 June 12th, 2008, 06:30 AM

Thanks for your reply Giaguara!

The Mac guys never had a problem when using AFP, now we've got messy permission problems under SMB. I haven't tried the terminal angle, although I can't see any of my guys going near that just to rename a few files.
Would something like DAVE get round this problem??