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I have had nothing but trouble with SMB (Windows Sharing) services in Mac OS X Server 10.7.

These problems were supposedly solved in 10.7.3, but my particular issues seem to still be there in several cases (Windows XP name browsing not working, Guest access not working, performance issues, dropped connections), and may be related to the Windows XP (versus Windows Vista/7) clients I'm dealing with. All of these were working fine with Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 when a string of hardware failures required replacement with the current version, which is working well for the Mac OS X clients. I have found that replacing the Apple supplied services with the open source Samba version (dropped by Apple in Mac OS X Lion for apparent licensing issues) has solved these problems, and provided faster performance. Unfortunately setup isn't well documented, takes a while, and has no GUI tool (SharePoints I miss you!). In hopes that I can give someone a head start for doing this if they need to, I've cobbled together a recipe from various sources.

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They did a few fixes in the 10.8.1/2 update I think, tried that If this does not work I would suggest using samba and smbup instead, because they do have a lot of problems with SMB on 10.8. There are likely some flaws, and it is probably missing some details and options. I would suggest disable and re-enable the SMB through: System Preferences -> Sharing -> File Sharing -> Options and check the box to enable SMB. Please feel free to add or update in the comments.

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Steps to install and configure samba3 replacement for Apple Mac OS X Server 10.7.x SMB services.ġ. Download XCode Command Line Tools (in Preferences of XCode - requires Developer ID)ģ. I guess it’s not ideal, and WD should in their next update fix this issue, but in the meantime this method works well.Install samba3 (in Terminal type 'sudo port install samba3')ĥ. Just select it and press the green tick and your folder should be right there. It should then show you the IP address of your mac. To see your folder go to Select Content Source>Network Share>Linux Shares.

Scroll down until you get to ‘Linux Share (NFS) Support’ and make sure it says ‘On’.

In your WDTV Live menu screen, go to Settings>Network Settings.

Change one setting on your WDTV Live to enable Linux Share Support You’ll probably be asked to enter your password.ĥ.

Drag your ‘exports’ text file from the desktop into the ‘etc’ folder.

SMB compression allows an administrator, user, or application to request compression of files as they transfer over the network. A proper article is now up on SMB compression at.

In the Finder menu bar, go to Go>Go to Folder Today I announced the new SMB compression feature for Windows Server 2022 and Windows Insider at the Windows Server 2022, Best on Azure webinar.

Copy the ‘exports’ file to a mysterious folder called '/etc’

Select the file name and delete the extension, so it just says ‘exports’Ĥ.

The text file you just created will now be called ‘exports.txt’.

Tick the box that says ‘Show all filename extensions’ (you can change it back later).

In the Finder menu bar, go to Finder>Preferences and click the ‘Advanced’ tab.

txt file extension from the ‘exports’ file you just created

Save the file (in plain text format) on your desktop as ‘exports’ģ.

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For example, I’m sharing a folder called ‘Movies’ on my desktop, so the line of code looks like this:.

Write the file path to your folder, then a space, then the following text: -alldirs -ro.

Use TextEdit to write a single line of code

In Get Info make sure the box that says ‘Shared Folder’ is tickedĢ.

Select that folder and and in the menu bar go to File>Get Info.

On your mac, choose the folder you want to access from your WDTV.

I don’t know much about this stuff, but I kept checking help sites and trying different things. But because Macs are based on Unix, you can use the NFS functionality on the mac to talk to the Linux functionality on the WDTV. I posted on another thread last night, but thought I might as well post here too.Īlthough it looks like there are a lot of steps below, it’s actually really simple and only takes a minute or so.Īpparently Macs that use Lion and above aren’t compatible with the WDTV. I was having the same issue, but worked out a way to get around it.

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