OSX client automatic afp/smb mounting

We have a osx 10.8 server and osx 10.7.-10.9 clients.
Recently I've been having prblems with an osx workstation that for some reason wants to mount the server file share with smb instead of afp (and for some reason with wrong username) – and can't save to the share in Word, Excel or ArchiCAD.
The thing is I don't have a clue why the workstation mounts the server as server.local – smb I've understood – instead of afp. Where ar ethe automatic mount settings stored so I can reset them?

There are several ways to mount a share automatically.
Easiest and most common way is to have it in the Login Items of the Users PreferencePane. Check there and if listed then remove it. Next open Keychain Access, and look for the smb share and delete the entry.
Once this is deleted then you can remount the share as AFP, and set it up to automount in the Login Items.

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ISCSI, AFP, SMB, and NFS performance with Mac OS X 10.5.5 clients

Been doing some performance testing with various protocols related to shared storage...
Client: iMac 24 (Intel), Mac OS X 10.5.5 w/globalSAN iSCSI Initiator version 3.3.0.43
NAS/Target: Thecus N5200 Pro w/firmware 2.00.14 (Linux-based, 5 x 500 GB SATA II, RAID 6, all volumes XFS except iSCSI which was Mac OS Extended (Journaled))
Because my NAS/target supports iSCSI, AFP, SMB, and NFS, I was able to run tests that show some interesting performance differences. Because the Thecus N5200 Pro is a closed appliance, no performance tuning could be done on the server side.
Here are the results of running the following command from the Terminal (where test is the name of the appropriately mounted volume on the NAS) on a gigabit LAN with one subnet (jumbo frames not turned on):
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/test/testfile bs=1048576k count=4
In seconds:
iSCSI 134.267530
AFP 140.285572
SMB 159.061026
NFSv3 (w/o tuning) 477.432503
NFSv3 (w/tuning) 293.994605
Here's what I put in /etc/nfs.conf to tune the NFS performance:
nfs.client.allow_async = 1
nfs.client.mount.options = rsize=32768,wsize=32768,vers=3
Note: I tried forcing TCP as well as used an rsize and wsize that doubled what I had above. It didn't help.
I was surprised to see how close AFP performance came to iSCSI. NFS was a huge disappointment but it could have been limitations of the server settings that could not have been changed because it was an appliance. I'll be getting a Sun Ultra 64 Workstation in soon and retrying the tests (and adding NFSv4).
If you have any suggestions for performance tuning Mac OS X 10.5.5 clients with any of these protocols (beyond using jumbo frames), please share your results here. I'd be especially interested to know whether anyone has found a situation where Mac clients using NFS has an advantage.

With fully functional ZFS expected in Snow Leopard Server, I thought I'd do some performance testing using a few different zpool configurations and post the results.
Client:
- iMac 24 (Intel), 2 GB of RAM, 2.3 GHz dual core
- Mac OS X 10.5.6
- globalSAN iSCSI Initiator 3.3.0.43
NAS/Target:
- Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, 8 GB of RAM, 2.2 GHz quad core
- OpenSolaris 2008.11
- 4 x 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda SATA II in ZFS zpools (see below)
- For iSCSI test, created a 200 GB zvol shared as iSCSI target (formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled)
Network:
- Gigabit with MTU of 1500 (performance should be better with jumbo frames).
Average of 3 tests of:
# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/Volumes/test/testfile bs=1048576k count=4
# zpool create vault raidz2 c4t1d0 c4t2d0 c4t3d0 c4t4d0
# zfs create -o shareiscsi=on -V 200g vault/iscsi
iSCSI with RAIDZ2: 148.98 seconds
# zpool create vault raidz c4t1d0 c4t2d0 c4t3d0 c4t4d0
# zfs create -o shareiscsi=on -V 200g vault/iscsi
iSCSI with RAIDZ: 123.68 seconds
# zpool create vault mirror c4t1d0 c4t2d0 mirror c4t3d0 c4t4d0
# zfs create -o shareiscsi=on -V 200g vault/iscsi
iSCSI with two mirrors: 117.57 seconds
# zpool create vault mirror c4t1d0 c4t2d0 mirror c4t3d0 c4t4d0
# zfs create -o shareiscsi=on -V 200g vault/iscsi
# zfs set compression=lzjb vault
iSCSI with two mirrors and compression: 112.99 seconds
Compared with my earlier testing against the Thecus N5200 Pro as an iSCSI target, I got roughly 16% better performance using the Sun Ultra 24 (with one less SATA II drive in the array).

Best way of making redundant AFP/SMB server

We have bought two XServe G5 systems in the hope of setting up a load balanced pair that would provide redundant access to AFP/SMB file shares (plus web and email). We have an XServe RAID box which we where going to attach to both servers.
What have people done to get the redundancy we want. These are the options I have looked at:
1) Put XSan on the RAID and connect both servers to it and then reshare the connection. Reading the XSan I see that XSan is not good for re-sharing via AFP/SMB. Also, it seems that I would have to setup everything on each machine seperately as the settings are stored locally.
2) Split the jobs between the two servers say email/web on one and AFP/SMB on the other. Then setup IP Failover for each server to the other, so that if one server fails the other takes over it's jobs. I presume I cannot simply use a single volume for this as mounting the same volume on each of the servers will cause problems. Is that correct?
3) Put all the services on one machine and setup IP failover to fall back to the second machine as required. This removes the issue of two machines accessing the RAID array at the same time.
Any advice would be greatly accepted.
Thanks
Ian
iMac CoreDuo Mac OS X (10.4.6)

This may help:
About IP Failover
First off, the IP Failover feature won't magically
configure the backup server to do what the primary
one was doing. In other words, with one server
configured for file services and the other for web
and email services, if the file server failed, the
other one wouldn't just start up file services by
itself!
IP Failover is best used where one server is
configured exactly as another. One server is used,
and the backup server is not used until the first one
fails. The backup server has a separate IP address
and network connection that it uses to periodically
poll the main server. If the main server leaves the
network, then the backup server enables a second
Ethernet interface which has been configured with the
main server's IP address. (You may be able to
multi-home one Ethernet connection, but I haven't
tried that. Plus, each of your Xserves has two
Ethernet ports, so that shouldn't be a problem.)
Yes, but you are not getting good value for money out of that solution.
Looking at the IP Failover it seems to work by having the secondary server monitor the primary. Once it fails it activates that address on the secondary and then enabling the required services on there. This doesn't seem to preclude each server being the master for the others secondary, as long as the services on each master are different.
Lets say mail runs on server 1 and AFP runs on server 2. Server 2 acts as the secondary for server 1 and has a script that activates mail on server 2 when it detects failure. Similarly if server 2 fails it will migrate the ip address server 1 and then startup the AFP service. Obviously each will have to be configured with matching services on each server.
Using the Xserve RAID
If you plan on storing all of your data on the Xserve
RAID, you need to know how "full" the RAID unit is
going to be and how many RAID volumes you wish to
create so that you can decide on how to connect it to
each server.
As we're migrating from an existing server to these we have a very good idea of what the sizes and volumes should be. We have a Xserve raid with four disks all on one side. Setup as a Raid 5 array that is suffient space for all our services. We can either partition that down into multiple volumes for each server/service.
What I don't have my mind around yet is how you control which server sees which volumes. We have to have each server be able to access each volume (so it can run that service in the event of failure) but I think it's going to be an issue to have two servers access the same volume at once. Is that correct? If two servers access the same volume at the same time it's going to cause trouble?
Think of the Xserve RAID as two
devices: each one has a fibre-channel port and holds
seven hard drives. Each "group of seven" can be
connected to any other device on the fibre-channel
network. Without a fibre-channel switch, you can
connect one or two other devices (one or two other
Xserves) to the Xserve RAID.
So you have these scenarios:
Using 1-7 drives and creating one large RAID volume:
you'll use one of two RAID controllers on your
Xserve RAID. You can connect the RAID to only one
Xserve or to a fibre-channel switch in order to
connect it to more devices.
Using 2-7 drives and creating two RAID volumes:
you'll use both RAID controllers (say, 3 on one side
and 3 on the other). Each RAID controller connects
to another fibre-channel device; thus, without a
switch, you can connect one to each server or both
to the same one.
Using 8 to 14 drives and creating one large RAID
volume: you'll be filling up one RAID controller and
all or part of the second, connecting both
fibre-channel connectors to the same Xserve, unless
you use a switch.
Using 8 to 14 drives and creating two RAID volumes:
You have the same options as with 2-7 drives.
See http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/deployment.html
for some pictures, which may help.
We have the fibre switch so each server can access all drives. I just don't know to limit what sees what, or if I need to do that.
Xsan
If you're just connecting the Xserve RAID to one or
two servers and planning to reshare the volume(s)
created on the Xserve RAID, then Xsan is not
necessary, nor should it be used.
But is it possible for two servers to use the same disk, I know it is with XSan but what about without it.
I think what you want is the ability to use the
Xserve RAID as a locally-connected volume on each
server, where share points can be defined. The
server is connected to the Xserve RAID using a
fibre-channel cable, just as a FireWire, USB, or
eSATA hard drive would be connected to the server.
As far as the server is concerned, the Xserve RAID
controller or controllers represent external hard
disks. The difference is that the Xserve RAID also
has Ethernet connectivity so that you can manage it
without having to log into your server. Once
connected, addressing using fibre-channel is
automatic; the Xserve RAID gets a WWPN address and
the RAID volume appears on the desktop of the server
- no Xsan required at all. From there, it's
perfectly safe to create share points and share them
via AFP or SMB; clients would connect using AFP or
SMB protocols with IP addressing over an Ethernet
network to which both the Xserve and the client
computers are connected. Even though the Xserve
RAID may also have an Ethernet connection to that
network, no read and write commands are sent via
Ethernet to the RAID; the server sends those via its
fibre-channel connection to the Xserve RAID as it
would with any other drive when housing share
points.
As I say it's fine for one machine at a time, what about 2.
For load balancing concerns, see Apple's File
Services Guide for recommendations. On an Xserve G5
with 2GB or more of memory, you should easily
accommodate 50 simultaneously connected users
(mixture of AFP and SMB) without a performance hit.
Depending on what your users are doing (and the
speed of the Ethernet network to which your clients
and Xserve are connected), you may be able to handle
more or less users. More RAM in the Xserve and a
Gigabit Ethernet network for the server and clients
would allow you to simultaneously balance more
clients with less of a reduction in performance.
Xsan works differently, and its requirements are
somewhat different. With Xsan, your Xserve RAID is
connected to a fibre-channel network. (In the
previous direct-to-server example, the fibre-channel
network consisted of just the Xserve and the Xserve
RAID.) In this network, all clients, at least one
Xserve, and the Xserve RAID are all connected via a
fibre-channel network. The Xserve has Xsan software
installed on it and becomes a dedicated metadata
controller. Clients must have special Xsan client
software installed for the SAN volumes to appear. In
such cases, the protocol used to mount the SAN
volumes is the Xsan client protocol, not AFP or SMB.
Although you technically can reshare an Xsan volume
via AFP or SMB, performance would take a hit. Since
the Xsan volume is writeable by all other clients on
the fibre-channel network, adding an Xserve to
reshare the SAN volume via AFP or SMB would allow
clients to connect via Ethernet (Wi-Fi, etc.), but
the server wouldn't have exclusive access to the SAN
volume.
To be honest, two Xserves and an Xserve RAID simply
aren't enough to warrant a SAN in my book. Typically
SANs are used where there are a large number of "done
servers" doing computation tasks, and they all need
to be able to have access to the same "local volume."
They're also used in cases where clients need access
to large amounts of storage set up to work like a
"local disk" on a few video production computers.
Just for comparison, Gigabit Ethernet offers
throughput bursts of up to 125MB/s (megabytes per
second), and Fibre Channel offers burst of up to
200MB/s. (Apple's 400MB/s claim only somewhat makes
sense if you're using both Xserve RAID controllers
connected to the same server.) Even so, both media
sustain around 50MB/s to 75MB/s, which is quite good.
In fact, that matches local disk performance. The
local serial ATA hard disks that are used in Power
Mac G5 models are serial ATA 1.5Gb/s (gigaBITS per
second) or 187.5MB/s at maximum bursts;I typically
see performance in the 40MB/s to 50MB/s range.
Just for fun, here are throughput speeds of several
common connectors, in megabytes per second:
Serial ATA "3.0": bursts up to 375MB/s, sustains
about 75MB/s
LVD SCSI 320: bursts up to 320MB/s, sustains about
100MB/s
Fibre Channel: bursts up to 200MB/s, sustains about
60MB/s
Serial ATA "1.5": bursts up to 187.5 MB/s, sustains
about 50MB/s
SCSI-3 LVD SCSI 160: bursts up to 160MB/s, sustains
about 60MB/s
Ultra ATA/133 (PATA): bursts up to 133MB/s, sustains
about 50MB/s
Gigabit Ethernet: bursts up to 125MB/s, sustains
about 50MB/s
FireWire 800: bursts up to 100MB/s, sustains about
50MB/s
ATA/66 (PATA): bursts up to 66MB/s, sustains about
40MB/s
USB 2.0: bursts up to 60MB/s, sustains about 30MB/s
FireWire 400: bursts up to 50MB/s, sustains about
20MB/s
10/100 "Fast" Ethernet: bursts up to 12.5MB/s
Judging by your request, I think the "no Xsan"
scenario is the one you want.
--Gerrit
I would love to take XSan out of the picture and if that means that I can only use one of the servers at a time then fine I can live with that, but, I would rather have both active and working for me even if I have to split the services between the systems.

Launch Services crashing - AFP, SMB, NTFS, exFAT, FAT32 all unmountable

My Mac Pro was working fine until this month hit... first I noticed that I could no longer mount my network shares (AFP and SMB shares on a Drobo 5n). My first assumption was that there was something wrong with my shares, but that's not the case as every other computer and device I have has no issues connecting and mounting the shares. Not only that, but my Windows partition on this Mac Pro connects fine as well. That's when I noticed my Windows partitions were no longer mountable in OS X either. So I ran some tests with a flash drive in disk utility, after formatting the drive in exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS the flash drive is no longer mountable... HFS still mounts of course, but not anything else.
So at this point, I've got AFP, SMB, NTFS, exFAT and FAT32 all completely unsuable in OS X. Pretty messed up.
Taking a look at console shows the same messages over and over again:
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
5/3/13 11:49:30.314 PM ReportCrash[11888]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
5/3/13 11:49:30.328 PM com.apple.kextcache[11922]: Child process /usr/sbin/kextcache[11923] exited due to signal 6.
5/3/13 11:49:30.328 PM com.apple.kextcache[11922]: Error 107 rebuilding /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache.
5/3/13 11:49:30.329 PM com.apple.kextd[11869]: kextcache error while updating / (error count: 10)
5/3/13 11:49:30.329 PM com.apple.kextd[11869]: async child pid 11922 exited with status 6
5/3/13 11:49:30.362 PM ReportCrash[11888]: Saved crash report for kextcache[11923] version 268.12 to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/kextcache_2013-05-03-234930_LaBonty.crash
I've tried literally everything I can think of... clearing caches, repairing disk permissions, rebuilding launch services, rebuilding spotlight, rebuilding the kext cache, running maintence scripts, etc. etc.... nothing has helped.

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, or by a peripheral device.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Post for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin. Test while in safe mode. You won't be able to mount network shares, but a flash drive should mount. Same problem? After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

User Passwords Rejected on AFP share mounts?

User Passwords Rejected on AFP share mounts?
(OK, my last post got buried, and perhaps too long), try again. Very brief
Issue:
After so many days, a User's AFP share password is rejected? What gives.
If you reset it, several days later, same thing, rejected.
Is Netinfo Database corrupted, what can / should be done?
- Stand Alone server (with AFP and FTP services running, all other services off, not running.
Summary Info for user having issue:
Location: 192.168.0.50/NetInfo/DefualtLocalNode
Home: No Home Directory
Primary Group: Users (20)
Password: Shadow Password
I have deleted that troublesome user name and created a new name (for that user), just in case, in the re-creation of the same user name (after deletion) some corruption gets inherited.
thanks,
macguitarman
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Using Tiger Server, I have found that enabling ACLs, or Access Control Lists on the volume, and then specifying users and/or groups into the specific ACLs for the share point has been very helpful. Also note that 10.4.10 server seems to work better than 10.4.11, so if you haven't upgraded, don't go beyond 10.4.10. .11 seems to have some permissions issues and other problems.
I assume you are connecting to the server via AFS (i.e. Go > Connect to Server > ip address) and not SMB? SMB sometimes is more problematic about ownership. But either way, Mac or PC clients, it seems ACLs are the way to go.
Crazy as it seems, on my server, even if the owner is, say, admin, and the group with r/w permissions is, say, Prepress, it helps to specifically add the Prepress group to the ACL for that share. Then be sure to propagate the permissions down (unless you don't want to, for some reason). To do this, click the little gear icon and propagate all the permissions -- owner, group, acl, etc. down. This will take a bit of time depending on how much stuff you have. I also find that a server reboot can be helpful.
[[ All this said, 10.5.1 seems to do some crazy things, and I hope 10.5.2 addresses them. I have one machine (not user ID) that always creates a folder on a share with no permissions for anyone. Only from that Mac; the same login on another works just fine. Go figure]]

Need help getting servername from afp volume mount

Hello I am trying to write a script to take the path of a selected file or folder, put it on the clipboard, and make it a PC friendly link/path to email to pc users in my company. We are sharing files off of 3 servers.
My problem is not with the scripting, but with the fact that all mounted volumes from these servers show up only from their mountpoint in the Volumes folder, i.e. /Volumes/DeptShare/Inbox/ and the like. In the "Get Info" Window I can see the servername (Server: afp://servername/pathtofile/etc) but I cannot find any clean way to call that from a script, to tie a mountpoint (Volumes/DeptShare) to the server it's on, if the user has volumes from more than one server mounted...
So my script can't replace "Volumes" with the proper servername.
Hope Im being clear, happy to elaborate, much obliged for any help.

Hi Bob, thank you so much for the quick response.
Unfortunately system_profiler SPNetworkVolumeDataType isn't revealing a server name for me. I think part of the problem is that it is afp; smb does reveal the server name there. Similarly, when I type "mount" in terminal, the afp server/login for the volume is just listed as a long character string starting with afp_ instead of a username@servername like with smb. With the SPNetworkVolumeDataType all I'm seeing re: server info is this: (I think the first part is just bonjour looking at our domain, I actually can't browse any servers through that. But I included it anyways in case)
Servers:
Type: autofs
Mount Point: /Network/Servers
Mounted From: map -fstab
Automounted: Yes
MyShareName:
Type: afpfs
Mount Point: /Volumes/MyShareName
Automounted: No
Another way I was trying to do this was to try and somehow "ping" a path to filename on each server, to see if the file/path could be checked or return an error and the script could know which server it was on. But I can't figure out the right language to do that either. I can do it like this in terminal:
\[-a /Volumes/path/file\]
but not like this:
\[-a /servername/path/file\]
or this:
\[-a afp://servername/path/file\]
so I still don't have the server name tied to the path.
The only other thing I can think of is having the script check the mountpoint name against a list of share names on each server, but that's a little heavier than I was hoping this would be. Plus it drives me nuts that the "Get Info" window can see the servername I can't call it easily somewhere!!
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Lsince update to lion osx my imac will not mount windows created video dvds my othe imac running snow leopard will

since update to lion osx my imac will not mount windows created video dvds my other imac running snow leopard will

You could've backed up your iPad prior to the "forced" upgrade which, by the way, you could have cancelled. iTunes doesn't upgrade your iPad, automatically, on its own. You had to click the Upgrade button to initiate the upgrade. You didn't have to do anything with that button. You can just leave it be.
iOS 8 is garbage on iPad 2 and 3 and even though iTunes keeps giving me the Update button option, I continually choose to ignore it.
Ignoring the Upgrade/Update button doesn't affect the normal iTunes/iDevice syncing/backing up operations.
You could've just left that button alone.
When was the last time you backed up your iPad?
While there is no way way to revert to a previous iOS version once you upgrade your iDevices iOS, iTunes saves multiple backups of your iDevice and if you backed up your iPad previously to this latest activity, you should be able to restore your iPad from an older backup that should appear by date when you plug your iDevice into your Mac, was for iTunes to launch and sync your iPad, then cancel the backup in progress and use the Restore function in iTunes to restore your iDevice from another previous backup version date.
If your current version of iTunes doesn't recognize your iPad2 under iOS 8, you need to check the iTunes update feature, in iTunes or in OS X Software Update feature in OS X Preferences panel to see if there is a iTunes update available for OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

Wrong or negative disk space in large SMB mounts, "not enough free space"

Hi,
MacOS 10.4 and perhaps earlier sees large SMB mounts as having incorrect or, which is crazier, negative disk space. It's an obvious signed integer overflow. E.g.:
$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
//XXX;xxx@xxx/xxx 973G -1.9T -1.2T 225% /Volumes/xxx
It doesn't seem to be an inherent problem of the SMB protocol as MacOS X 10.5 can correctly recognize and report the terabytes for the same SMB share:
$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
//XXX;xxx@xxx/xxx 5.0Ti 2.1Ti 2.8Ti 44% /Volumes/xxx
Windows XP has no problems with the share either as verified with Explorer and "dir".
The server s/w in my case is Samba but it shouldn't really matter.
The most annoying consequence from the bug is that Finder refuses to copy files to the share as it tries to check if there is enough free space in the destination volume beforehand.
Are there any immediate workarounds known for the issue, at least to make Finder copy work?
Thanks!
Yar

Sorry, but can you guys tell a client from a server and a protocol from its implementation? Camelot keeps telling his favorite tale about inherent 2TB limitation in the SMB protocol while it is clearly the MacOS client that had been broken until 10.5 came out.
Answering my own question, as usual:
Fortunately, Samba (the server-side thing) can compensate for broken clients with this handy option <[http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html]>:
max disk size (G)
This option allows you to put an upper limit on the apparent size of disks. If you set this option to 100 then all shares will appear to be not larger than 100 MB in size.
Note that this option does not limit the amount of data you can put on the disk. In the above case you could still store much more than 100 MB on the disk, but if a client ever asks for the amount of free disk space or the total disk size then the result will be bounded by the amount specified in max disk size.
This option is primarily useful to work around bugs in some pieces of software that can't handle very large disks, particularly disks over 1GB in size.
A max disk size of 0 means no limit.
Default: max disk size = 0
Example: max disk size = 1000

Tricky SMB mount...

We're running approximately 35 of our 500 clients as mobile, managed - non-syncing accounts.
They're bound to OD to be able to be managed from WorkGroup manager and bound to AD to use single login authentication and to have access to AD network resources.
All of our accounts have their own private folder on their respective domain's DC. What I need is that when they're authenticated on the OD server to have a SMB mount for that specific user - using their login name, something like this:
SMB://ourdomaincontroller/username$ (with the $ because it's a hidden share)
I have written a script that can do this for me using ${USER} from env, but you cannot manage scripts for a group in workgroup manager. And when adding an SMB mount via workgroup manager you're only prompted with a browser dialog, and can't edit it once selected.
I cannot add the script as part of the loginhook on the local machine because if they login off property (they're mobile) they'll be hit with an error - that and we're planning on adding more mobile units in the future - and will be turning them over to the user after a set period - at which point I just want to be able to unbind them - not be deleting login hooks, etc...
So from what I can see there's 2 options:
1) find some way to enable scripts for a managed group
2) find a way to add an SMB mount for a managed group that accepts an environmental variable
Neither of these I know how to do (if at all possible). Is there a way to do one of those - or another way
Thanks

I have the exact same issue. I'm hoping someone will shed light on this

Leopard Server PPTP VPN and Airport, can connect VPN but not AFP/SMB/VNC

I have on several occasions enabled a PPTP VPN service on Leopard Server and forwarded the appropriate ports in my Airport Extreme with this result: Outside clients can connect to the Leopard Server, but trying to connect to the server with AFP, SMB, Screen sharing or Remote Desktop over this VPN just times out.
The VPN seems to be working OK, but after establishing the VPN I can't use it. The client (iMac with Mac OS X 10.5.3) gets an IP, DNS, Router etc. from the network's DHCP.
I have tried setting the server as default host with no effect.
Everything is running the latest available updates.
Is there any bug/problem with PPTP VPN passthrough an Airport Extreme on the Server side? Is there anything that needs to be configured other than forwarding port 1723 on the Airport?

I had a similar problem. Hope my solution can help you.
Check if the routers on both sides of the VPN connection use the same ip address style (ie. 10.0.0.x, 192.168.1.x). If they both use the same style then they conflict.
I have a Airport Extreme at home and was VPNing to a server behind a time capsule. Both were using the 10.0.0.x style IP. I switched my home IP style to 192.168.1.x and everything worked right away.

Client automatically cache the data got from cache server?

Hi expert,
I have 2 questions about the client local cache. Would you please help to give me some suggestion？
1. Will client automatically locally cache the data got from cache server the first time and automatically update the data in local cache when getting the same data from cache server again? I go through the API reference but cannot find any API to query the data currently cached in the local cache.
2. If client will automatically cache the data got from cache server. Is there any way for a client to get the data event that happens to its local cache, such as entry created in local cache, entry deleted from local cache and entry updated in local cache? In my opinion, when getting an entry from cache server the first time, the MapListener's entry create event should be triggered. When getting the same entry again, the entry update event should be triggered.
However, I have tried a client with replicated cache, a client with partitioned cache, an extend client with remote cache and a client with local cache(front cache part of near cache), the client (the NamedCache object has been set the MapListener) cannot get any event notification after getting data from cache server. By the way, my listener is OK since when putting data the entry create event and entry update event will be triggered.
Your suggestion is very appreciated. :)

Hi
If I were you I would read this http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14526_01/coh.350/e14510/toc.htm
and particularly the section about Near Caching here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14526_01/coh.350/e14510/nearcache.htm#CDEFEAJG
which is what you are asking about in your question.
Near Caching is how Coherence stores data in the locally - which is the answetr to your first question. How Near Caching works is explained in the documentation.
Events, which you ask about in your second question are explained here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14526_01/coh.350/e14510/delivereventsjava.htm#CBBIIEFA
It might be that ContinuousQueryCache is closer to what you want. This is explained here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14526_01/coh.350/e14510/queryabledatafabric.htm#sthref38 A ContinuousQueryCache is like having a sub-set of the underlying cache on the local client which you can then listen to etc...
JK

10.4, active directory and smb mounts

I am having a problem mounting windows shares using smb mounts. I am getting the dreaded data could not be read or written error -36 problem. I have tracked it down to the number of groups an account is a member of. If I login with an account that is a member of roughly 6 groups, I can connect to shares just fine. But if I connect to shares with an account that is a member of roughly 30+ groups, I get this error. I get the error about Socket is not connected when I try to connect through the terminal. I have tried the nsmb.conf file. This is a fresh install of 10.4.1 with the 10.4.4 patch applied. I am also using the Active Directory plugin (Windows 2003 domain, shares are located on 2003 also).

all security groups. They have the network set up for every share there is a group setting permission. Te accounts I am having trouble with is the student accounts. They have a default set of groyup membership that allows them access to all related student activity. This has lead to some very large number of groups that they are members of.

Finder Content not updating with files on SMB mount

I have Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on a Mac Mini. I work in Adobe Lightroom 4 and Photshop CS6 with files hosted on a PC running Windows 7 Ultimate, and access these files via an SMB mount on the Mac. Both machines are up-to-date on their respective updates.
This worked fine up til recently, when I started noticing Finder contents don't necessarily update when the files change on the SMB-mounted filesystem. For example, if I create a new file, say, using Photoshop, and save the file, then try to see the file in Finder (so I can copy it to another location), the file doesn't show up. Force-quitting Finder & restarting it causes the new file to appear, but this is a temporary fix, as the problem sometimes recurs again when I create more new files.
It seems like this problem appeared after the 10.8.2 update, as I never noticed it with earlier releases. Have any of you seen this? I do my SMB mounts via the "Connect to Server (CMD-K)" dialog. Would I be better off mounting it from the command line with some specific options?
Thanks in advance...

Try deleting this file: com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot. See if that helps...
Seems to me that Adobe is very picky about where the files are kept on the hard drive. You might not want them in the Sidebar. Whenever you do an Adobe software update, the installer needs the path to where those files go. If it's missing in action, it can wreak havoc.
Make sure when you do Adobe updates, if there is a link included or a Read Me file, check that out first before installing anything.
Run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions BEFORE and AFTER any software updates:
Launch Disk Utility. Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.
Carolyn

NFS/SMB mount solution, Netware to Linkstation

We have a remote office with small backups to do on a daily/weekly basis and they are using a Buffalo Linkstation live to do them. They do this from an XP/Pro workstation. Essentially they have the Netware volume they wish to back up mounted as a share on the workstation. The Buffalo Linkstation drive is connected to the local switch with a static IP. They mount (windows, e.g. \\linkstation\backup) the drive and then use xcopy to back up the files of interest.
I would like to be able to do this on the server as a scheduled task. Is there a practical way to initiate an NFS or SMB mount and then use bash scripting to backup?
We are talking Netware 6.5 SP6. (OES Linux soon, but not quite soon enough.)

If Linkstation 'exports' its drive as an NFS volume, then you could use
NFS Gateway
(http://www.novell.com/products/netwa...quicklook.html) to mount
it so it appears as a local volume; this is my impression from the way
your question was worded but I don't think this is what you really want?
I think
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...s.html#unx-nfs is
what you're looking for instead: exporting a NetWare volume as NFS/SAMBA?
Peter
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Trouble with OSX client registering in SCCM

I am having a weird issue with a OSX client failing to register in SCCM. Our infrastructure is a CAS and three primary sites. On one of the primary sites (we will call it "Site 3"), I have a DP with the MP role on it to support HTTP
clients and a separate DP\MP server strictly for HTTPS (OSX) clients. It works fine and runs well. On another site ("Site 1"), we have the same setup however when I try to register a test OSX endpoint it is showing weird behavior.
The HTTPS MP has a message about a registration response pending for the GUID displayed in the configuration manger client window in System Preferences and the enrollment status reports Enrolled, but it never appears in the SCCM console. Another thing is if
I click the "connect now" button in the client applet, a new client GUID is generated and another registration response pending shows up in the dmprp.log file.
The message "Registration response status is: CCM_REGISTRATIONRESPONSE_PENDING" appears in the DMPRP.log for the HTTPS DP\MP for Site 1 but I don't think that is a normal message for enrollment when things are working. MP_RegistrationManager.log
shows DDR processing matching the cert name and client GUID.
A bit of additional info is that we are using third-party SSL certs for the endpoints and are not going through the typical ADCS PKI/SCCM enrollment point process. The networking group reports no dropped packets on the hardware firewall everything
is sitting behind but if you have any ideas of ways a firewall could cause this behavior I would love to hear it.

Hi,
Please refer to the link below:
Enrol Mac OS X Clients in Configuration Manager 2012 SP1
http://www.jamesbannanit.com/2012/10/enrol-mac-os-x-clients-in-configuration-manager-2012-sp1/
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