10.5: Working with Windows workgroups in 10.5
I have been struggling with browsing Windows workgroups in 10.5.x. Hints on these forums fixed the workgroup name sticking, but when trying to connect to the Samba share on my print server, OS X wouldn't display the workgroup name. Although SharePoints no longer works in Leopard, I had used it previously to set an OS X Mac to be the Workgroup Master Browser to reduce the number of elections in a Windows 2000/XP network.With nothing left to lose, I fired up SharePoints, set the workgroup name (on the SMB Properties tab), and set the Mac to be the master browser. Problem solved.
published on Wednesday, the 27. February 2008, macosxhints
Security Update 007-009 finally fixes SMB problem
This is not really a hint, but a happy announcement. Since March 2005, I've been unable to connect to my university's server using SMB via the Finder on Tiger. I'd get a "Mount tree phase error -36," which happened only when connecting thru the Finder -- using the smbclient Terminal command did the trick. I finished my Masters degree, and yet this was still broken in the first release of Leopard. This bug appears to be solved, finally, with the release of Security Update 007-009 for 10.5.1. Maybe the 10.4.11 version fixes Tiger's problem, too, but I can't test that...
published on Wednesday, the 23. January 2008, macosxhints
10.5: Automount Bonjour-published NFS shares in Finder
Mac OS X Leopard does not discover and automatically mount NFS shares publsihed via Bonjour/ZeroConf as Tiger did. (If you own a Linux based server, you can publish all kinds of Bonjour servers via a daemon called avahi). 10.5 only discovers AFP and SMB Bonjour published shares as far as I am aware. To work around this temporary bug/missing feature, I wrote a simple Ruby-based daemon which you can install so it starts up every time Leopard boots. This daemon simply continuously browses for and resolves published NFS shares and will mount them automatically if they are not already mounted for your user account. Let's hope Apple will fix this soon so we do not need anymore workarounds like this. [robg adds: I have mirrored the source [4KB download] here o...
published on Friday, the 30. November 2007, macosxhints
10.5: A workaround for -43 error mounting SMB shares
After upgrading to Leopard, I found I was unable to mount any of the shares on my Linux file server, getting the following error: The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -43) At first I thought this was because of the security configuration I was using on the file server, or perhaps because Leopard had changed the type of authentication method it was expecing from an SMB file server (NTLMv2 for example). It turns out it was a lot simpler -- it was because all of the shares on the file server were set as non-browseable (Browseable = No in /etc/smb.conf. Changing at least one share to be browseable corrected the issue and let me connect to the file server and mount the shares available, regardless of if they were set as Browseable or not. It should ...
published on Monday, the 26. November 2007, macosxhints
10.5: Extended character set passwords and SMB shares
After upgrading to Leopard, whenever I would try to mount SMB shares on my company's network, the Finder would hang interminably on the "Connecting to Server" progress dialog (the network is Active Directory-based).My password, like many that of many people, contains some extended characters. Today I tried URI-escaping the password, and it worked! I was able to connect immediately to all shares. To URI escape a password, try the following:ruby -ruri -e 'puts URI.escape("YourPasswordHere")'Copy and paste the result in the Finder's username/password dialog, and mount away!
published on Monday, the 12. November 2007, macosxhints
10.5: Access advanced SMB printer setup options
The first thing I tried at work, after installing Leopard today, was to add a printer, which is a Canon PCL. Usually in Tiger, I connected to it via SMB in our local windows server, like this: smb://login:password@name _of_server/name_of_printer But with Leopard, I just couldn't add any shared SMB printer. No matter what I tried, only Bonjour, IP and AppleTalk printers were available to install, but not my usual Canon PCL. Maybe you remember in Tiger: when we needed to add another printer in the Advanced tab, we held down the Option key while pressing Add, and the next screen would pop up the "Print to Windows via SMB" option. But no such trick in Leopard, it seemed. Well, to get the Advanced tab choice, I had to customize the Add Printer toolbar: there you can add a handy Advanced button. Press that, and there you'll find the Tiger functionali...
published on Wednesday, the 31. October 2007, macosxhints
Inside Apple's Leopard Server OS
An anonymous reader writes "Mac expert John Welch, author of the widely read OS X versus Vista comparison, delves into Apple's Leopard Server OS. He and Information week have on offer a deep dive into what's known so far about OS X Server 10.5, which will be showcased at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Welch weighs in on Leopard's iCal, Wiki, file, Quicktime, and mail services, along with Xgrid 2, Open Directory 4, and 64-bit capabilities. What does it all add up to? His assessment: Apple probably isn't aiming at 'big' enterprises; just the same, Leopard Server is shaping up to be a great SMB (small and mid-sized business) product. Welch writes: 'For about a thousand bucks on existing hardware, or for the cost of an Xserve, you get a really solid server, able to support Web services, collaboration, groupware, IM, and file services. You can run it with its own directory service, or as part of an Active Directory implementation out of the box. It provides some features that due to pricing and/or setup requirements, have traditionally been reserved for big enterprises — in particular clustering of both email and calendaring servers.'"
published on Tuesday, the 27. March 2007, apple-slashdot
Will Leopard Pave Apple's Road to Small Business?
Small business seems to be one of the markets that Apple intends to target with Mac OS X Leopard Server. One of the key indicators of Apple's success is that third-party developers are noticing the steady switching and adoption of Apple technologies in the SMB market. The growing list of available Mac OS X SMB software has been able serve virtually any kind of business.
published on Monday, the 5. March 2007, macnewsworld