Accessing SMB/Windows Shares on OS X

I have an invisible windows share called public$, which I allow anyone to (read-only) access on my network. But to be able to access it on a mac I had to give it a password. Are there anyways around this password problem? On windows machines I am able to access this folder without the need for authentication which is what I want since this is read-only and contains documents for general public use which I need the public to automatically have access to it without the need for authentication.

SMB never really likes symbols in shares.
A couple of things. Is this part of a Windows Domain (200,2003, 2008) or part of a Home network? Plus make sure the Mac and Windows machine are using the same Time Server. Also check out the reader reports at MacWindows.com:Snow Leopard and File Sharing Tips and Rerports because one of the current reports might help you.

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Timemachine Succesfully backing up to SMB windows share

Hi After much googling a post on this page
http://forum.dsmg600.info/viewtopic.php?pid=7395#p7395
states the following command allows timemachine to backup to any mounted network share, and they are correct. I am succesfully running my 1st backup to a Windows share over SMB. Will keep you posted on how it goes. But here is the command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

I have been running Time Machine on an network SMB mounted partition for a couple of weeks (using the trick where you disabled the time machine disk check
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1)...
I know it was a bad idea... but I have plenty of SMB space available at my lab, while no real hard disk (until today )
Everything went fine until today, where finally the disk filled up... and I got this in the console
20/11/07 15:10:42 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Trusting backup times for remote backups.
20/11/07 15:10:51 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Starting pre-backup thinning: 5.03 GB requested (including padding), 3.07 GB available
20/11/07 15:11:30 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-19-145728: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:11:30 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Removed all 1 expired backups, more space is needed - deleting oldest backups to make room
20/11/07 15:12:20 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-09-145354: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:13:08 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-12-085647: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:14:02 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-13-105151: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:14:57 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-14-094201: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:15:49 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-15-093340: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:16:58 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-16-091426: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:19:39 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-19-084944: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:19:51 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-19-160038: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:20:25 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-19-164736: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:21:14 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-19-174849: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:21:39 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-20-100005: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:22:07 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-20-104417: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:22:39 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-20-114450: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:23:00 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of Zig/Backups.backupdb/Zig/2007-11-20-124449: 3.07 GB now available
20/11/07 15:23:00 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Error: backup disk is full - all 15 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
20/11/07 15:23:00 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Backup Failed: unable to free 5.03 GB needed space
20/11/07 15:23:01 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
20/11/07 15:23:03 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
20/11/07 15:23:03 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[11539] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Do you see where I am coming? this is already scary... it deleted ALL but one backups, without recovering one byte... Jez... without a warning (despite the check box in the TM pref option pane)
Look at this:
[zig:~] felix% mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted)
//[email protected]/local/users/felix on /Volumes/felix (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by felix)
This is the SMB partition:
[zig:~] felix% df -g /Volumes/felix/
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
//[email protected]/local/users/felix 66 63 3 96% /Volumes/felix
[zig:~] felix% ls /Volumes/felix/
Zig_0017f2c89d46.sparsebundle/
[zig:~] felix%
<here I mounted the sparsebundle image using the finder>
[zig:~] felix% mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted)
//[email protected]/local/users/felix on /Volumes/felix (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by felix)
/dev/disk2s2 on /Volumes/Backup of Zig (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, mounted by felix)
[zig:~] felix% df -g /Volumes/Backup\ of\ Zig/
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2 132 129 3 98% /Volumes/Backup of Zig
So the Backup partition pretend to use 129 Gig (weird as its containing SMB partition is 66 Gig big) and 3 Gig left...
[zig:~] felix% cd /Volumes/Backup\ of\ Zig/
[zig:/Volumes/Backup of Zig] felix% ls
Backups.backupdb/
[zig:/Volumes/Backup of Zig] felix% ls Backups.backupdb/
Zig/
[zig:/Volumes/Backup of Zig] felix% ls Backups.backupdb/Zig/
2007-11-20-141210/ 2007-11-20-151041.inProgress/ Latest@
[zig:/Volumes/Backup of Zig] felix% sudo du -sk .
Password:
35637816 .
But all the files on this partition amount to 35 gigs... (which is indead more or less the size of one backup)... where are the other 31 gig gone? My explanation is that the space has not been properly recovered after the old backups deletion... (which indeed also explains why backupd deleted ALL but one backups)
In any case, I would advise any SMB mounted partition Time Machine user to NOT rely completely on those backup. I will try to see if one can recover the space in a sparsebundle image... but even so, it makes the whole process dangerous.
You have been warned...
Moreover:
[zig:/Volumes/felix] felix% hdiutil compact Zig_0017f2c89d46.sparsebundle
Starting to compactâ¦
Reclaiming free spaceâ¦
Finishing compactionâ¦
Reclaimed 19.5 GB out of 97.9 GB possible.
[zig:/Volumes/felix] felix% df -g .
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
//[email protected]/local/users/felix 66 43 22 66% /Volumes/felix
[zig:/Volumes/felix] felix%
Note that I only recover (by hand) 22 gig while 31 should be available... but this is explained in man hdiutil:
"For SPARSEBUNDLE images, completely unused band files are simply removed."
Completely... so Iguess only 22 gig of bands were free 9 gigas are in band which are partially used by good data.
[zig:/Volumes/felix] felix% cd /Volumes/Backup\ of\ Zig/
[zig:/Volumes/Backup of Zig] felix% df -g .
Filesystem 1G-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk2s2 132 109 22 83% /Volumes/Backup of Zig
[zig:/Volumes/Backup of Zig] felix%
So the space has been indeed returned to the SMB volume... and I was able to restart TM after that and complete a backup...
In any case, I say it again... do not rely on SMB mounted partition based TM backup.
As for me, I am ordering a 200 gig external HD :-D

Access unc windows shares like \\server\share\

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1 serves as an Open Directory System Master(10.4.3). 2 Serves as a file share & backup (10.4.4).
Both are production machines and cannot easily be restarted.
There is no Windows network, Active Directory or Windows domain in our network.
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I tried to access the smb share with my powerbook(10.4.4) and have the same issue. I'm presented with an authentication box but authentication fails.
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[2006/02/24 21:52:03, 1] authods.c:opendirectory_smb_pwd_checkntlmv1(427)
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(from a few different sources):
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Also check the logs in /Library/Logs/PasswordService
Try: id username
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You should get some info about uid, gid, groups.
sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService
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Be sure to re-issue
sudo killall -USR1 DirectoryService
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In Open Directory, you might want to revert to standalone (this will destory the existing OD setup) and then re-promote to OD Master. You'll lose all OD users however when doing so. If you don't have many, this may be best.
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Just migrated my Wife! Well, took her Windows XP computer and installed Archlinux.
Got everything to work, flash, java and so one BUT I can't access our Media server.
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How can I do this in arch?
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This solution worked for me!
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After finding this thread I did the following steps and it resolved the issue 100%.
1. Open Terminal
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Time Machine backup to Windows Share Now Failing Verify

Hi Everyone - I have searched everywhere and can't find any help.
This is my situation. I have my TM backup to an SMB windows share and its been working fine for months. Two things changed recently: a) I installed Windows 7 on my windows box and b) I installed that TM update that provides greater reliability. Backups worked fine for weeks after both of these changes, but just this week backups failed and TM wanted to create a new backup. I tried to recreate a new backup, but it keeps failing with errors below. When I try to run a verify disk on the sparsebundle (with disk util) I always get errors, but of course, I can not fix the errors when the sparsebundle is on an SMB. I am currently running a chkdsk on the windows drive, but I don't think its damaged.
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8/18/10 11:39:57 PM com.apple.backupd[800] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
8/18/10 11:39:57 PM com.apple.backupd[800] Ejected Time Machine network volume.
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8/19/10 12:31:04 AM com.apple.backupd[1120] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: smb://GUEST:@192.168.1.107/TM
8/19/10 12:31:07 AM com.apple.backupd[1120] Mounted network destination using URL: smb://GUEST:@192.168.1.107/TM
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8/19/10 12:31:19 AM com.apple.backupd[1120] Runtime corruption detected on /Volumes/TM-1/MYMBP_58b035f1b3d1.sparsebundle (fsck_hfs -q termination status: 3)
8/19/10 12:31:19 AM com.apple.backupd[1120] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: smb://GUEST:@192.168.1.107/TM
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abnospam wrote:
Hi Everyone - I have searched everywhere and can't find any help.
This is my situation. I have my TM backup to an SMB windows share and its been working fine for months.
Is that a "supported" destination? According to this Apple article: Disks that can be used with Time Machine
*+If your backup disk is on a network, the network server must use Apple File Protocol (AFP) file sharing, and both your computer, and the networked backup disk, should have Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later.*+
8/18/10 11:39:41 PM com.apple.backupd800 Copied 164129 files (18.4 GB) from volume IntelSSD160.
8/18/10 11:39:43 PM com.apple.backupd800 No pre-backup thinning needed: 828.7 MB requested (including padding), 578.34 GB available
8/18/10 11:39:51 PM com.apple.backupd800 Copied 379 files (7.3 MB) from volume IntelSSD160.
It appears to have finished the actual backup (two passes).
8/18/10 11:39:51 PM kernel hfs: node=4844 fileID=4 volume=Backup of MYMBP device=/dev/disk3s2
8/18/10 11:39:51 PM kernel hfs: Runtime corruption detected on Backup of MYMBP, fsck will be forced on next mount.
8/18/10 11:39:51 PM kernel hfs: cat_delete() failed to delete thread record on volume Backup of MYMBP
Then has a problem; apparently unable to delete the thread record, although listed 3rd, seems to be where it choked.
8/19/10 12:31:19 AM com.apple.backupd[1120] QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM DIRTY
8/19/10 12:31:19 AM com.apple.backupd[1120] Runtime corruption detected on /Volumes/TM-1/MYMBP_58b035f1b3d1.sparsebundle (fsck_hfs -q termination status: 3)
And can't fix it on remount.

Problem accessing smb share since change to Windows 8

Hy,
I have a smb share folder on my router (I connect a pen and is shared in the network), with no password.
I am able to access from Windows 7 and Linux, but not from Windows 8.
The reported error is:
The device or resource (SERVER) is not set up to accept connections on port "The File and printer sharing (SMB)".
Which is obviously wrong, since I can access it from other OS.
How can I solve this or get more information on the underlying issue.
I've read several threads in here about similar problems, but nothing worked in my case (services are running, smb-cifs is active and there's no error about IPRStackSize and I turned off firewall and antivirus).
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is your network public or private? in order to access shares you need to be on a private network in windows 8.
Change Network Status Using Settings Charm
1. Press Windows Key + I combination on the keyboard to reveal the
Settings charm. Now in the bottom, click on the Network icon there. Alternatively, you can click on the
Network icon in the notification area on the
taskbar.
2. Now in the Networks section, right-click over the network whose status you’re looking for to change, select
Turn sharing on or off.
3. Finally, you have the options to select between Private and
Public status for your network. If you select Yes, turn on sharing or connect to devices, the network will be switched to Private status.
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Windows computers can not access smb-shares in Lion

I have updated von SL to Lion Server. Now, I don't gave Access to my Windows shares from any Windows Computers. If I connect a Windows share u.e. froom Windows 7 Workstation I will see a window with username and password for the share. But the username und password from lion for this share will not work. It was no problem in SL. Any idea?

To get this to work on windows 7 I...:
Start > Computer
Disconnected my mapped netowrk drive that would not connect
Selected the Map network drive button in the toolbar at the top
Typed in the folder location manually (if you try the browse it will fail)
Selected Connect using different credentials
Selected Finish
On the credentials screen that pops up:
User name: <SERVER\username>I found that my server name had to be in capitals (/private/var/log/krb5kdc/kdc.log helps you know exactly what it is)
Password: <your password>
Select Remember my credentials
Select OK
After this i found no issues access any of the shares on the server and everything came back to life

No access on podcast share from Windows clients

Hello together!
I have the following scenatio at home:
* 1 Server with Windows 2008 R2 with logged in user and iTunes running (everything is shared)
* 1 Laptop with Windows 7 x64 & iTunes
* 1 Desktop with Windows 7 x86 & iTunes
* 1 Macbook with Mac OS X Leopard & iTunes
With this constellation I want to have access to my iTunes library located on the server from all other computer. With the MacBook this funktions without any problem to access everything (podcasts too).
On both Windows computer the directory pocasts is invisible. I can find the podcast files in the main directory but they are grey and the the playback does not start.
Is here anyone who had already the same problem and perhaps solved it? Thank you in advance for your replies.
P.S. Generally I can play the files by changing the kind of media to movie.
Message was edited by: Mattn81

Oleg,
I had the exact same problem here - we have two XSERVE machines here running OSX 10.5.7 server, and we're accessing a samba share on these servers from Windows XP SP3 clients.
When moving a file, I noticed a message in /var/log/samba/log.smbd :
[2009/06/15 12:45:30, 0, pid=50709] /SourceCache/samba/samba-187.8/samba/source/modules/vfsdarwin_acls.c:fsp_setacl(126)
darwinacl: failed to set ACL on <filename>: Invalid argument
!#acl 1
I tried to look this up on google, but had no success.
Searching the file /etc/smb.conf for "acl" showed the following line:
vfs objects = darwinacl,darwin_streams
(Un)commenting this line (inserting a ";" in front of the first character) and restarting s,b solved the problem here - I'm now able to move files without having the permissions set to 0000, and the error in log.smbd doesn't appear any more.

New Mac user, need help accessing windows shares

Hi All,
I have a new MBP 13" and want to be able to easly access shared folder on my PC network. None of the PC's appear under the 'Shared' left menu in the finder, not even my aging eMac.
I have successfully used connect to server and smb the pc name, but this seems to wok once, then when I go to reuse it, i can not access it again. deleting the save server favourite and rebooting works occasionally, however for the most part it is bery hit and miss. My thoery is that if you can access it once, you should be able to again and again.
Obviously none of my pc's have any issues accessing the shares, it is just the mac . I have input the windows workgroup in the WINS section of Network Settings as well as my router ip address.
Can anyone advise how to get the pc's to appear under the shared tab in the finder.
At the moment, I am starting to regret buying the Macbook Pro, and really thought this type of issue would have been sorted out on the Mac side by now. But alas, it seems that I will just use windows 7 on the macbook pro until I can get this sorted. I can't not have access to windows data stores.
Any help will be appreciated. I have tried to resolve this by viewing similar threads, but have not found a reliable solution yet.
GeekGuy

Really ... no-one can shed some light on this situation?
Can someone at least recommend a forum where I can get some help.

How to access Windows shares on Arch?

I would like to access my Windows Vista shares (on the same network) as any other folder in Arch. For instance, I have the "Public" folder shared on Windows and I was able to access this folder in Nautilus by navigating to smb://nazbtm/Public. This worked and pointed to the correct folder...
But I don't know how to navigate to that folder in a terminal (which I need).
How can I mount the "Public" shared folder to /home/nazgulled/public, for instance? And do it with every boot of course...

Nazgulled wrote:
This works:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/Public /home/nazgulled/public
This doesn't:
mount -t cifs //vmhost/Public /home/nazgulled/public
To use the vmhost name instead of the IP address, make sure your /etc/hosts file contains the following line: (assuming the IP address is static. if it changes at every boot with DHCP, then this obviously ain't gonna work too well )
192.168.1.100 vmhost
And you mentioned that you would like to have this mounted at every boot, so instead of having to manually do a mount -t cifs //blah, blah blah every time, simply throw this in your fstab.
//192.168.1.100/Public /home/nazgulled/public cifs user=whatever,password=whatever,uid=whatever,users 0 0
And if you don't want to put your user and password in the fstab where others on the same computer can see them, use a reference to a credentials file:
//192.168.1.100/Public /home/nazgulled/public cifs credentials=/home/nazgulled/.smbcredentials,uid=whatever,users 0 0
Then, in the /home/nazgulled/.smbcredentials file have:
user=whatever
password=whatever
And if your home directory is mod 700, other people using the same computer won't be able to read your password file, but fstab during boot will.
And, a third option, and the way I do it since I don't necessarily want everything mounted at every boot is to mount only when you want, but without needing to type a long mount command, change the fstab line to:
//192.168.1.100/Public /home/nazgulled/public cifs credentials=/home/nazgulled/.smbcredentials,uid=whatever,user,noauto 0 0
Note the user (without the s) and the noauto, which means it won't automatically mount at boot, but has the information ready so that later, if you execute the command mount /home/nazgulled/public it will mount (without needing to be root). (Make sure you chown and chgrp that directory to you).
Hope that helps
Bob
Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-03-28 22:34:07)

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