Almeister9
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I work in an office with 4x OSX 10.4, 4x OSX 10.5.6 and one WinXP Pro. One of the 10.5's was used as a server with an external HDD as storage. This machine died and needed a re-install but was then unable to access the storage HDD due to permissions. I extracted successfully the data to another storage device.
I created a File server using Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server and Samba 3.2.3 setup with No Authentication:
smb.conf:
The rest of the smb.conf file was left as default.
I then:
the OS HDD and the DATA HDD are both ext3
The DATA HDD is mounted in fstab using:
All was working well for a couple of days, all machines could access all files read/write. The main program used is Adobe InDesign all versions are CS.
The problems started when files opened in InDesign by OSX 10.5 machines made changes to files, when they saved the changes, the files showed in finder on all mac machines as aliases and could not be opened. This only happened randomly to some files that had been opened in OSX 10.5 but never with files that had been opened with 10.4 though once this occurs, neither 10.4 or 10.5 can open the file.
The WinXP machine however has no problems browsing to and opening the file and if the file is saved with a different file name, all machines can again open it and the original changes made by the 10.5 machine are not lost.
Opening the file with XP and making a change and saving the original, however does not fix the problem, it needs to be saved as a seperate file.
I then found out that deleting the "._" copy of the file instantly makes the file openable again without needing to even open the file in XP.
The next problem to show up was that after a file had been altered and saved by a 10.5 machine (without the first problem happening), when a mac of either 10.4 or 10.5 tried to open it,(by double clicking the .indd file in Finder), it would copy itself and open the copy.
The only fix for this is to open the file from within InDesign - File - Open and choose "Open Original". Again, XP not affected.
The next problem to manifest is that if a 10.5 machine moves a file from one folder to another, a lot of the images in the file are no longer linked and need to be relinked. This happens to files where i haven't deleted the "._" corresponding file.
This has been happening for approx six weeks now and I have already replaced the HDD for the OS and re-installed the server using Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest Samba (last week) with no change to the situation. The DATA HDD is brand new and no errors are reported within Ubuntu.
I am rapidly losing my mind and my reputation, and standing, as the only IT person in the office.
Any help or suggestions or even clues would make me greatly appreciative.
Cheers in hope
Al
I created a File server using Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server and Samba 3.2.3 setup with No Authentication:
smb.conf:
Code:
security = share
[JAJA]
comment = Ubuntu File Server Share
path = /mnt/JAJA
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0777The rest of the smb.conf file was left as default.
I then:
Code:
mkdir /mnt/JAJA
chmod 777 /mnt/JAJA/
chown nobody.nogroup /mnt/JAJAthe OS HDD and the DATA HDD are both ext3
The DATA HDD is mounted in fstab using:
Code:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/JAJA ext3 defaults 0 0All was working well for a couple of days, all machines could access all files read/write. The main program used is Adobe InDesign all versions are CS.
The problems started when files opened in InDesign by OSX 10.5 machines made changes to files, when they saved the changes, the files showed in finder on all mac machines as aliases and could not be opened. This only happened randomly to some files that had been opened in OSX 10.5 but never with files that had been opened with 10.4 though once this occurs, neither 10.4 or 10.5 can open the file.
The WinXP machine however has no problems browsing to and opening the file and if the file is saved with a different file name, all machines can again open it and the original changes made by the 10.5 machine are not lost.
Opening the file with XP and making a change and saving the original, however does not fix the problem, it needs to be saved as a seperate file.
I then found out that deleting the "._" copy of the file instantly makes the file openable again without needing to even open the file in XP.
The next problem to show up was that after a file had been altered and saved by a 10.5 machine (without the first problem happening), when a mac of either 10.4 or 10.5 tried to open it,(by double clicking the .indd file in Finder), it would copy itself and open the copy.
The only fix for this is to open the file from within InDesign - File - Open and choose "Open Original". Again, XP not affected.
The next problem to manifest is that if a 10.5 machine moves a file from one folder to another, a lot of the images in the file are no longer linked and need to be relinked. This happens to files where i haven't deleted the "._" corresponding file.
This has been happening for approx six weeks now and I have already replaced the HDD for the OS and re-installed the server using Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest Samba (last week) with no change to the situation. The DATA HDD is brand new and no errors are reported within Ubuntu.
I am rapidly losing my mind and my reputation, and standing, as the only IT person in the office.
Any help or suggestions or even clues would make me greatly appreciative.
Cheers in hope
Al