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Mac 10.4.9 crashing on connection attempt with Bubba
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Mac 10.4.9 crashing on connection attempt with Bubba
We have recently bought a Bubba to act as a file server for our small office. Everyone can access the home and storage areas fine except for two Mac Pros running 10.4.9. Other macs running 10.4.8 have no problem.
Has anyone else had this problem.
Also, can you create folders and write to 'storage' or do you have to use the 'music'/'pictures'/'videos' folders. I wanted to create a 'work' folder in 'storage' but it says access is denied either logged in as a user or admin. I can however write into the media folders.
Thanks for any help
Cheers,
Ben
Has anyone else had this problem.
Also, can you create folders and write to 'storage' or do you have to use the 'music'/'pictures'/'videos' folders. I wanted to create a 'work' folder in 'storage' but it says access is denied either logged in as a user or admin. I can however write into the media folders.
Thanks for any help
Cheers,
Ben
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this is the permissions of /var/samba/public on my bubba, default-installed without any updates:
this indicates that members of the group "users" cannot create any folders within the "storage" share.
since samba is configured to have a create-mask of 0777 one could argue that the public-folder should have this.
the command on bubba as root:
will remedy that situation, but i cannot promise that this won't break future updates from excito-team (although i can't see why it should).
/Bjorn
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drwxr-xr-x 5 1008 users 4.0K May 9 19:35 public
since samba is configured to have a create-mask of 0777 one could argue that the public-folder should have this.
the command on bubba as root:
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chmod -R 777 /var/samba/public
/Bjorn
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Hi,
afriendcalledben, your system is up to date? The problem bjorn is refering to is actually an old bug. The /var/samba/public folder should be writable by all. But if you have done a reinstall without adding the updates you most likely will run in to the access problem mentioned above.
/Tor
afriendcalledben, your system is up to date? The problem bjorn is refering to is actually an old bug. The /var/samba/public folder should be writable by all. But if you have done a reinstall without adding the updates you most likely will run in to the access problem mentioned above.
/Tor
Co-founder OpenProducts and Ex Excito Developer
Regarding the crashes, this is totally new to us. Could you please specify in a little more detail?
/Tor
/Tor
Co-founder OpenProducts and Ex Excito Developer
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Hi Tor,
Sorry for the late reply. I've been away for the weekend.
Regards to bubba's installation, we have been using it fresh out the box with no additional installations of anything performed by us. I have clicked 'Update Software' in the web admin and it informs me I'm completely up to date with no packages to install. The version number is 0.31.4-1.
With the problem of the Macs with 10.4.9 crashing, the process goes like this. These macs are able to see Bubba in their network folder within the Excito workgroup folder like the other computers on the network. However, when they click the 'Connect' button, there is a two second pause and then the spinning candy of death appears and Finder needs to be relaunched. As I mentioned before, there are a couple of Macs with OS X 10.4.8 which do not have these problems and can connect to Bubba.
Apart from the OS version, I can't see any difference in the set up to these Macs.
Thanks in advance if you can help with either of these problems.
Cheers,
Ben
Sorry for the late reply. I've been away for the weekend.
Regards to bubba's installation, we have been using it fresh out the box with no additional installations of anything performed by us. I have clicked 'Update Software' in the web admin and it informs me I'm completely up to date with no packages to install. The version number is 0.31.4-1.
With the problem of the Macs with 10.4.9 crashing, the process goes like this. These macs are able to see Bubba in their network folder within the Excito workgroup folder like the other computers on the network. However, when they click the 'Connect' button, there is a two second pause and then the spinning candy of death appears and Finder needs to be relaunched. As I mentioned before, there are a couple of Macs with OS X 10.4.8 which do not have these problems and can connect to Bubba.
Apart from the OS version, I can't see any difference in the set up to these Macs.
Thanks in advance if you can help with either of these problems.
Cheers,
Ben
Regarding the crashes.
Ok, sounds stranger. But is it only with 10.4.9? And afriendcalledben is it reproducable on your machines?
/Tor
Ok, sounds stranger. But is it only with 10.4.9? And afriendcalledben is it reproducable on your machines?
/Tor
Co-founder OpenProducts and Ex Excito Developer
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Hi,
Regarding the permissions problem, the folder problem. This really should not be a problem either. But something must have failed. Could you check your permissions on the folder /var/samba/public ie ls -l /var/samba and then follow bjorns advice above on chmod. That really should fix that problem.
/Tor
Regarding the permissions problem, the folder problem. This really should not be a problem either. But something must have failed. Could you check your permissions on the folder /var/samba/public ie ls -l /var/samba and then follow bjorns advice above on chmod. That really should fix that problem.
/Tor
Co-founder OpenProducts and Ex Excito Developer
Mac OS X 10.4.9 -- any luck at all?
I read about Bubba on LinuxDevices.com and I'm quite interested in getting one, but I'm a little hesitant after seeing there are problems with OS X. My home network has a brand new MacBook and a WinXP notebook on it, so obviously I want a potential home server to work with the machines I already have.
Does Bubba work at all with the latest OS X, i.e. are the problems reported in the minority, or does it have general problems with 10.4.9?
Cheers
Jerry
Does Bubba work at all with the latest OS X, i.e. are the problems reported in the minority, or does it have general problems with 10.4.9?
Cheers
Jerry
Hi,
Regarding the crashing Finder in MacOSX. This is an "incompatibility" between Bubbas Samba server and the "client" in some MacOSX versions.
If one have a problem, the solution is not to browse for the service but rather use a direct connection. To do this choose Go in the finder menu and then Connect to server. When prompted for location use either smb://bubba/storage to reach the public part or smb://bubba/home for the private share.
(And as a note, we are not able to reproduce the above crash on our MacOSX 10.4.9 test system. So not all systems with this version is affected.)
/Tor
Regarding the crashing Finder in MacOSX. This is an "incompatibility" between Bubbas Samba server and the "client" in some MacOSX versions.
If one have a problem, the solution is not to browse for the service but rather use a direct connection. To do this choose Go in the finder menu and then Connect to server. When prompted for location use either smb://bubba/storage to reach the public part or smb://bubba/home for the private share.
(And as a note, we are not able to reproduce the above crash on our MacOSX 10.4.9 test system. So not all systems with this version is affected.)
/Tor
Co-founder OpenProducts and Ex Excito Developer