File sharing from Ubuntu 9 with Snow Leopard

This is mostly a post to share my experience and confirm what I've seen...
Something in OS 10.6 seems to have changed with regard to Samba (SMB) sharing.
If you share a folder via Samba in Ubuntu (I have only tested this in Ubuntu 9), it will show up as such in Mac OS 10.5, but not in 10.6.
You can still connect to the SMB share point by using Finder > Go > Connect to Server and manually entering the IP address of the Ubuntu computer however.
Screen sharing works between 10.6 and Ubuntu 9, and the Screen Sharing option does appear in the Finder under the Shared section.
I've tested this on a G4 iMac running 10.5 and on an Mac Pro running 10.6. It would seem that this is a bug in 10.6 - can anyone confirm this with their own experience? Thanks.
Message was edited by: psignosis

I have the same experience.
But did you try to write to the local MacMini drive or to the Fire attached Raid?
I found, that my internal MacMini drives are fast over the network, but as soon as it comes to Firewire drives on the MacMini over the network, it's only half speed.
JO

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File sharing requires Internet in Snow Leopard?

I have two Snow Leopard Macs (10.6.5) and One Tiger (10.4.11) Mac all connected by cable to a router, each with a static IP address. When I have the Internet connection plugged into the WAN port of my router and modem turned on, file sharing works fine from any Mac to any other.
But if I have the Internet turned off and start up the computers, I cannot connect to a Snow Leopard machine to access the hard drive from either a Tiger machine or the other Snow Leopard machine. When I choose connect to Server in finder, and put in the IP address of a Snow Leopard Mac, it just times out, like that Mac don't exist on the network. I remain able to connect to the Tiger machine to access its hard drive via file sharing.
Why does Snow Leopard seem to need an Internet connection in order to be reached for file sharing on the LAN?
Thanks in advance.

I finally got to the bottom of the file sharing issue. I had the Snow leopard machines' network preference setting "Configure IPv4" set to "Manually". I had entered the IP address, router, subnet, and DNS server for each machine. DNS server was set to be the router, as I have my preferred DNS servers configured in the router. If I change Configure IPv4 to "Using DHCP with Manual Address" and remove the DNS server from Network preferences, causing it to be obtained from the router, this fixed the issue. (The DNS server still shows as the router's address, but it is now supplied by DHCP.)
I am still curious why configuring both the IP address and DNS manually causes the issue, while using DHCP for the DNS with fixed IP address fixes it.

Renaming a file in Finder changed with Snow Leopard somehow?

I've used an AppleScript for ages to:
1. choose a file (a screenshot)
2. prompt for a new name
3. File is renamed by Finder with new name
4. compose a command to copy it to another server
It seems Finder is not updating the "alias" to the file since I upgraded to Snow Leopard; this very code has worked for the last few versions of OS X:
set screencap to (choose file with prompt "Choose the screen shot: ")
display dialog "Enter new file name: " default answer "foo"
set newname to (the text returned of result as string)
set newnamepng to (newname as string) & ".png"
log "newname is " & newname & " newnamepng is " & newnamepng
log "screencap is " & screencap
tell application "Finder"
set the name of screencap to (newnamepng as string)
end tell
log "the name of screencap is now: " & screencap
set posixscreencap to the POSIX path of screencap
set scpcmd to "scp " & posixscreencap
log scpcmd
Here's what happens when I run it:
tell application "AppleScript Editor"
choose file with prompt "Choose the screen shot: "
--> alias "Einny:Users:swain:Desktop:Screen shot 2010-09-13 at 2.06.44 PM.png"
display dialog "Enter new file name: " default answer "foo"
--> {text returned:"newnameforscreenshot", button returned:"OK"}
end tell
(*newname is newnameforscreenshot newnamepng is newnameforscreenshot.png*)
(*screencap is Einny:Users:swain:Desktop:Screen shot 2010-09-13 at 2.06.44 PM.png*)
tell application "Finder"
set name of alias "Einny:Users:swain:Desktop:Screen shot 2010-09-13 at 2.06.44 PM.png" to "newnameforscreenshot.png"
--> "newnameforscreenshot.png"
end tell
(*the name of screencap is now: Einny:Users:swain:Desktop:Screen shot 2010-09-13 at 2.06.44 PM.png*)
(*scp /Users/swain/Desktop/Screen shot 2010-09-13 at 2.06.44 PM.png*)
For some reason the file alias "screencap" does not get a new name. Any suggestions?

When I run your script, the file name does get changed, it is just that the Finder is not keeping up with the script. There are a few fixes:
1) add a short delay after the rename (delay 1 seems to be enough)
2) use *System Events* instead of the Finder
3) add an update command after setting the name in your FInder tell statement (e.g. update screencap)
Note that an alias will still point to the same file item (even if it does have a different name), but the POSIX path of the alias object does need to be updated before you can use that.

How do I transfer files from mac with snow leopard to a new retina display mac

What is the easiest way to transfer files from my old mac(2008) snow leopard to my new retina display mac book pro?

Easiest? Well there is some sort of wireless transfer thing, but I hear it takes FOREVER like several days and it's glitchy.
The Retina doesn't have a Firewire port I believe, so Target Disk Mode is out, unless you have a adapter and I don't know how well that will work out. Cost another $30 for the adpatper I bet.
The likely most easiest?
Run down to any computer or office store and pickup a powered external USB hard drive that's the same size or larger then the old Mac's boot drive.
Boot the old Mac and download Carbon Copy Cloner.
(or use the TimeMachine if it asks, but it takes a reallly long time and if there are problems, then it's harder to recover files from)
Format the external drive in Disk Utility with Partition: option GUID and OS X Extended Journaled (default setting)
Use CCC to clone OLD A boot drive to External Drive B, takes about a few hours depending how much stuff you have.
Hook up drive to new Mac, (either clone or TimeMachine drive)
Use the free Migration Assistant in your Application Utility folder to transfer over, but creates a new user account (you can later delete one)
Or if you haven't set up the new Mac yet, when you do set it up during that process, you can transfer from the External Drive B and it won't have the account you set the machine up with naturally just uses the ones from the clone or TimeMachine drive.
Once your fine and dandy on the new machine, then Disk Utility erase and use the external USB to create either a bootable clone with CCC or a TimeMachine drive for backup.
Since you need a backup drive anyway, this method is better and happens to be reliable and easy.
Most commonly used backup methods

File Sharing Keeps Crashing on Snow Leopard Server

I use a Snow Leopard mini server running OS 10.6.4. The server works as a file sharing hub for my network. Lately, something strange has been happening. On several occasions, the network file sharing function has suddenly gone dead with no warning -- in other words, open file sharing connections are suddenly cut off, and when I try to re-access the server to reinitiate file sharing, it lists no drives available for browsing.
When I restart the server, the problem seems to resolve itself (temporarily), and the server gives no indications of anything having gone wrong. The other weird part is that this problem is exclusive to Mac systems trying to access the Mac server. In other words, PC computers on my network are still able to connect and share files without any trouble, even after the apparent stall has occurred.
Any ideas? It is getting annoying to have to restart the server every few days. Thanks!

tibbs01 wrote:
I have a Mac Pro, Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and experience a similar problem - Windows clients, XP Vista and 7 alike can not access the server, This was all fine before going to Snow Leopard.
To fix it , I switch SMB sharing off and back on again, then it works fine. This happens several times per day, I am so far unable to detect pattern or even any log entry that might shed light on it. This is a big problem for me, as I have approx 40 windows clients accessing that server and it's shares.
There are so many post all over the internet about SMB and Snow Leopard having problems, Is Apple aware of this , has anyone heard back from them about fixing this ?
Apparently there's a major problem in Snow Leopard using a version of Samba that is not compatible with Windows 7. I think there are workarounds - a search on Google should help.
However, the original poster was complaining of a problem with AFP, which is what I'm having a problem with as well. If anybody has the solution ...

Ubuntu with Snow Leopard Setup?

I am using a Mac Mini as my home server using Snow Leopard for AppleTV and printing
I Bootcamped the disk and installed Ubuntu.
I can boot either OS and run them with no problem.
I want Lion Server and Ubuntu on the same disk with the option to boot one or the other. I have Lion server on an iMac as the display for the mini. No problems.
Disk utility on the Mini will not let me change partition per Article: TS3926.
It shows the following partition structure:
DISKOS1 about 200MB
Macintosh HD at 99GB
UBUNTU at 9.02BG
DISKOS4 at 108.37 MB (funny DU shows GB on it, but it is MB)
I don't how I ended up with the above structure. It started as Sno Leopard. I ran Boot Camp to create the Windows partition and I installed Ubuntu.
What is the proper order and procedure to have a correct Lion install with Ununtu as an alternate boot?
I tried this once on the iMac and lost the Lion recovery partition in the process. I ended up reformatting and resinstalling to get it right. I want to leave the iMac a clean Lion Server install. I want to dual boot the Mini. I may then want to virtualize the mini if possible. It has 4GB RAM.
Is there a better approach?
Should I give up and keep Ubuntu on an external disk?
Thanks

Having spent some time getting a triple boot working on my MacBook Pro, I think the only option left to you is to reinstall windows. If you installed grub in the MBR for the Windows partition then you will need to reinstall windows in order to fix its MBR. As for Linux. You may be able to save that install by reinstalling grub in that partition.
Here is the link I used to setup my triple boot:
http://lifehacker.com/5531037/how-to-triple+boot-your-mac-with-windows-and-linux -no-boot-camp-required
One of these links may help you with the grub reinstall. Good luck!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

Can't transfer from iMac with snow leopard to Macbook pro with leopard

Hey
I Have a bit of a problem and hope someone can help me out.
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro running on Leopard and my wife has a 2010 iMac running on snow leopard. We were trying to share some files and there was no problem from mine to hers. I've put the folders on my public folder and she picked them up and transfered them to her computer. The other way was impossible. I can see her computer on finder and i connect to it as a guest (as she did to mine), but nothing appears there, altough the folders are on her public folder. I've checked the settings and everything seems to be the same on both computers.
Does anyone knows whats going on?
Appreciate some help

See this tip if your data isn't backed up:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689
In the future always backup your data before updating.

Server Admin. file sharing lion client to Snow leopard server

I'm running Lion on my client Mac and my Server is Snow leopard 10.6.8. I have to use Server Admin 10.7 on Lion but there is no "File Sharing" tab to set up or edit the file sharing options on my 10.6 server?. I understand this is correct for Lion Server, but how do I get round it for Snow leopard Server?? On the Apple website compatibility page (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1822) it states:
"Mac OS X Server v10.6
To administer a Mac OS X Server v10.6-based server, you can use the Server Admin Tools 10.6 on a Mac OS X v10.6 (client) computer. You should match the version numbers of the server, tools, and admin workstation as closely as possible; for example, use Server Admin Tools version 10.6.8 on Mac OS X v10.6.8 to administer Mac OS X Server v10.6.8. You may also use the Server Admin Tools 10.7 on an OS X Lion computer to administer Mac OS X Server v10.6."
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"open recent" from file menu not operating with snow leopard?

is anyone else having trouble with this?
did i accidentally disable this option? if so, how do i enable it?
thanks

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
I can understand why they have done this, although agree it is not a good idea.
Apple has made accessing the applications harder than need be, by nesting them inside the iWork folder. Without the manuals.
The User Guide says nothing about the need to leave the iWork components in the iWork '09 folder.
Is it difficult to understand that we don't buy three separate applications but one package?
The soluce of three apps in one package may have several reasons:
(1) developping Keynote then Pages then Numbers was more efficient in terms of cost than developping them as a single app.
(2) keeping them as separated items gives the ability to load an item smaller than a treeinone app so it requires less time and use less memory.
(3)…
If users are too numerous to break the 'rule', I'm afraid that Apple decide to pack the three apps in a single item so the problem would be definitely solved.
If someone want to have direct access to iWork components from the Applications menu, the correct soluce is to create aliases of thes apps and store these aliases in the Applications folder. Neat, simple and free of the described oddities.
as in the +Open With+ in File information,
The operating system apply a default setting for the "Open with" feature.
There is a problem for those which want an other setting.
But, as every user has its own needs, there will always be necessary to make individual choices.
Which app must open a .doc file ?
For me it's a moveit_to_thetrash tool
for some users, it's Word
for some, it's openOffice
for some, it's neoOffice
for some, it's Bean
for some, it's Pages
for some, it's TextEdit
and I know users having all of them installed.
Automatic link between a kind of doc and an app is an inaccessible dream.
The user action is required.
and the +Keyboard Shortcuts+ preferences.
The decision to apply this or that shortcut to a menu item is part of the design task. I think that it's the designer which must define them, not the user. You don't change the commands of your motorcar, I don't understand why you would change those of an application.
If you don't like the application GUI, use an other app.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 11 septembre 2009 17:24:59
The user is here to use program, not to design them.

I have a black macbook from 2006 with snow leopard can I upgrade to mountain lion?

Can anyone help me?

You cannot go to Mountain Lion, as stedman1 states.
But you can upgrade to Lion, possibly. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2404

Moving accounts from Snow Leopard Macs to Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

I got my brand spanking new Mac mini today with Snow Leopard Server! So far, we (at home) were managing our accounts on individual iMacs and a MacBook Pro. While I will be getting into the innards of account migration, management etc. I thought I'd post a quick question here; Currently I have an iMac with three user accounts on it (wife and two kids). I also have my own personal MacBook Pro with my account (the only Admin account) on it. We'll soon be getting another iMac for our daughter (who currently has an account on the existing iMac). My idea in getting the Mac mini was to move to and centrally manage all the user accounts in the household on the Mac mini server. What is the best way to accomplish this? What is the best way to move the existing accounts on to the server?
Additionally, I'll be looking into connecting the two stationary iMacs with Powerline Ethernet (where one runs Ethernet over existing electrical wires in the walls). My other option would be to rely on wireless network (I don't think this would be a good idea for if I am going to be placing the user accounts on the server and there needs to be a constant on, reliable connection between the server and the client computers as they will be talking to each other a lot!). Any thoughts on Powerline? (I am not looking forward to installing Ethernet cabling behind walls :o))
What say the wise men of Mactopia?!
Thanks,
Kenneth.
P.S. I had earlier accidentally posted this in the corresponding section of Mac OS X instead of the Mac OS X Server forum.

Ok so the esiest way to explain this is to tell you what i just went through.
I have 3 user accounts. All the accounts are network Users meaning that there home folder are kept on the server. I was having a problem with Time Machine giving me error 41 and error 11. After scratching my head for 2 days I ended up copying (Drag-n-Drop) the Home Folders to an External Hard Drive. I then proceeded to erase both of the internal hard drives on the mac mini and did a fresh local install of the Server OS.
Everything was fine at that point. Now this is where Snow Leopard stopped being nice.
I went and Created the user account again using WGM. I let WGW create the home folder and the 9 folder inside. I made sure the short names were the same and the passwords were the same as they were previously.
However, once i Copied files from the external drive to the home folders the permissions copied as well, Which i guess should be expected. So now at this point apparently the UID's of the newly created users wasn't the same as they were before the clean install. I have multiple instances of root listed in the ACL for several folders and also had several instances of System listed sporadically.
Now, This isn't to say that you can't drag n drop because now That I have it all squared away and everything is now working ok, I would probably still drag n drop the home folder off to an external disk, but only because I now know what to do to clean things up.
if you drag and drop be sure to use the CHOWN command and theCHMOD commands afterwards. Take a look at this MacFixIt article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20013630-263.html?tag=mncol;title
If you copy your local imac users to the home directory on the server you may want to follow the steps on the URL I gave plus you will most likely also have to do the following. In a nutshell you are going to use the chmod command to strip all the ACL Permissions then you are going to use the chown command to re-specify the correct owner and the correct permissions for the network user.
!) Go into ServerAdmin and click on Sharing
2) Go to the users folder you are using and select the user you are going to work with.
3) Click on the Permissions option
4) click on the +sign at the bottom (this will open the users & groups list to the right)
5) Drag the current user from the users list to the owner permissions line under posix section
5a) Click Save
6) Click on the Gear button at the bottom
7) Check the box for Owner Name and Owner Permissions.
8) Uncheck the box for Access Control List then click ok
Once you've gone through that rigmarole you can go back into ServerAdmin and fix the permissions for public and Sites folder which should only take a minute or so.
So the moral of this story and as I found out when i ended up calling Enterprise support is that the act of dragging and dropping user home directories from one server to another, or as in your case, from a local machine to a the server isn't anything that apple recommends or supports. you might want to read through the man pages for "Ditto" or so apple tells me, but honestly now that you know, the steps above aren't all that bad. It's true Knowing IS half the battle!
have Fun!
P.S. FWIW If you run into problems and have to call Enterprise Support be prepared for them to tell you to refer to the user Guides. So reading those would be to your advantage even though they aren't the easiest things to understand unlike apple's consumer products user guides

Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard, Win 7 & Ubuntu, can't upgrade to Lion

I have new 13" macbook pro with Snow Leopard on it. With a combination of boot camp and some disc partitioning trickery, I got windows 7 and ubuntu on it as well. Furthermore I also have a shared data (fat32) partition on the machine (so 4 main partitions - win,mac,linux,shared - plus swap partition, efi, etc).
I just download Lion and I'm trying to start the installer, but when it asks me which partition I want to install it on, all options are greyed out and the Macintosh HD partition says somethign to the effect of "this disc cannot be used to start the computer". Is there any way for me to get lion installed without having to erase all my extra partitions and start this whole agonizing process over again?

You may be out of luck without formatting your HDD. See this article from Macworld:
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Also, see these Apple KB articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1600

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Microsoft Office 2004 (Word) unable to save files
I have been running Office 2004 on my Intel iMac with Snow Leopard for some time and all of a sudden I cannot save a document. Word just stopped responding and I have to force quit. I can open Word and create a new document but I cannot save it. I reinstalled Word but that didn’t help. Then went to the Internet and found at least one other Mac user having the same problem which it suggests is caused by a recent Mac Security Update:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2004-macword/word-2004-wil l-not-open-or-save-documents/b04eb870-9b0d-4f3b-bb47-b122301e36f6
So I check for a new Mac Security Update and sure enough there was one. I downloaded it and now Word seems to be working, as it should. I can both open and save files. The only problem remaining is that when I open Word I get the following error message “An unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework library”. I contacted Apple but they were unable to help.
How can I get rid of this error message?

Look, I realize you might have to get your machine working, so this is how you revert back.
Restore proceedure to pre-Security Update 2012-001 v 1.0 & v 1.1
#1 Backup your personal data off the machine.
Backup files off the computer (not to TimeMachine). If you don't have a external drive, get one and connect to the USB/Firewire port and simply drag and drop copy your User folder to the external drive, it will copy all your files. It's best to have two backups of your data off the machine when trying to restore.
Disconnect all drives now to prevent any mistakes from occuring.
#2 Reinstall OS X 10.6 from disk
Get out your 10.6 install disk and make sure it's clean and polished (very soft cloth and a bit of rubbing alcohol, no scratches) If your disk is borked, you'll have to order a new one from Apple with your serial number.
Hold c boot off the 10.6 disk (wired keyboard, internal optical drive), use Disk Utility First Aid to >Repair Disk of your internal drive (do not format or erase!!), Quit DU and simply re-install 10.6.
Note: Simply reinstalling 10.6 version from disk (without erasing the drive) only replaces 10.6.8 with 10.6.x and bundled Apple programs, won't touch your files (backup anyway) or most programs, unless they installed a kext file into OS X itself. (only a few on average do this)
#3 Update to 10.6.8 without Security Update 2012-001 v1.0 or v1.1
Reboot and log in, update to 10.6.8 via Software Update, but EXCLUDE THE Security Update 2012-001 by checkinig the details and unchecking the blue check box.
#4 Reinstall any non-working third party programs
When you reboot, make sure to reinstall any programs that require kext files installed into OS X, you'll know, they won't work when you launch them or hang for some reason as they are missing the part they installed into OS X.
If for some freakish reason you get gray screen at any time when booting (possible it might occur when you reinstall older programs), hold the shift key down while booting (Safe Mode, disables kext files) and update your installed third party software so it's compatible with 10.6.8.
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
That's it really.

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I have a MacBook pro version 10.6.7 with snow leopard. After an scheduled software upgrade I could not open Quicken (It said it could not open the files). Now I can only open it if I have my external drive on. Can you help?
All the information that I had input on Quicken is gone. I have to have the external hard drive that I use to back up to be able to use quicken now. It is as if it was erased from the laptop hardrive

Try repairing permissions. My favorite way is with a utility called AppleJack. Info and download here. It's free. It only works when you boot in Single User Mode. When restarting or booting, hold down the Command key and S keys.
You will get a very different startup screen that looks like the Terminal app has hijacked the screen. Just let the lines of text scroll by. When that happens you will get a text entry prompt. Type in "AppleJack" without the quotation marks.
A DOS looking menu will appear. Choose 1 or d to run Disk Repair. If you get a message that Disk Repair found and corrected errors, run it again. Repeat until you get the "your disk appears to be ok" message. This rarely happens with my experience, though. This does the same thing as as booting from an external drive and running Disk Utility's repair. Only, no external drive is required!
Next, choose 2 or p to repair disk permissions. This will take a little while. AppleJack warns that it will take up to an half hour to run repair permissions. It'n never taken more than about ten minutes for my MacBook Pro.
As permissions are repaired, you will see each repair scroll on the screen. When done, the menu returns, choose q to quit. Then at the prompt, enter "exit" without the quotes. Your MacBook Pro should restart into Mac OS normally after this.
Hope this helps.

I can't read in Mavericks DVDs and Bluray data burn with UDF system files burn with Snow Leopard, please help me. Thanks

i can't read in Mavericks DVDs and Bluray data burn with UDF system files burn with Snow Leopard, please help me. Thanks

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