[MACEP] Tiger OS vs. Samba

[John Bromley]

This solution was suggested on the MacFixIt.com website:
SMB connection problems, solutions

Some users experience issues connecting to SMB (Samba) shares under  
Mac OS X 10.4 -- usually resultant in error -36.

Solutions
Changing the SMB configuration file MacFixIt reader Jim reports that  
changing a line in the smb.conf (configuration) file to be  
uncommented resolves the issue in his case.

Jim writes:

"I've solved my Samba problems - it seems Tiger is sending encrypted  
passwords. If Samba isn't configured to receive them, Tiger can't log  
in.

"In smb.conf, the line:

encrypt passwords = yes
"must be uncommented (make sure there is not a ";" at the beginning  
of the line).

The smb.conf file is located at /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf.

You can access the smb.conf file in the terminal via the command:

sudo vi /etc/smb.conf
which will open smb.conf in the text editing utility "vi".

Re-establishing keychain passwords Resetting keychain passwords  
(deleting then re-entering them) can resolve some SMB networking  
issues introduced by Mac OS X 10.4. We've since received several  
notes of confirmation for the fix.

MacFixIt reader Stewart writes:

"I could connect to other Windows machines successfully under Tiger,  
however, with one particular Windows machine, I get the following  
error:  'The finder cannot complete the operation because some data  
in 'smb://(windows machine' could not be read or written  Error Code  
-36 )'."

"It was Keychain. I reset my keychain and everything worked. I can  
now logon to a share in that windows machine. I had copied the  
keychain from Panther to Tiger installation for my main user. I found  
this by logging into another user on my Mac and found that I could  
connect to a share ( and this one had the default tiger keychain ). I  
found the keychain item that was problematic, removed it and now  
everything is fine."


-- 
John Bromley
(503) 668-3332

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just  
sit there." -----  Will Rogers



On Feb 7, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:

> Hello Folks,
>
> OK, so I have 4 new Mac Minis running 10.4.4. They can't connect to  
> our samba server. It shows up but all I get is a spinning beach  
> ball and a frozen finder when I try to authenticate. I've googled  
> this and it seems like it's been a problem since Tiger came out.
>
> I'm still looking for a solution but suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> ;-) Paul
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