Hi Guys, I've have a samba share on a Linux platform (CentOS) and I've got Mac OSX clients connecting to it. Here is a copy of my smb.conf file: ============================= [global] workgroup = SAMBA unix charset = utf8 security = user [Work] comment = FileServer path = /path/to/folder/Work guest ok = no valid users = user force user = user writeable = yes browsable = yes inherit permissions = yes inherit acls = yes vfs objects = streams_xattr wide links = no follow symlinks = yes =============================== When the Mac client tries to create an alias of a file in the Linux smb share, the alias it creates doesn't open, in fact it says it is a Unix Executable file instead. When I try to open it, it opens up in a terminal window. This happens to all file types i.e. .png, .pdf, .jpg....etc when creating an alias within the smb share from the Mac OSX client. If I create a shortcut (alias on Mac) of a file in the smb share using Windows, this works fine. Is there a directive I'm missing in the smb.conf file to enable the Mac OS alias to function as how it should? Kind Regards GMSS
Hi Guys, I've now managed to solve my own problem and thought that I'll post my solution here to help anyone else who is experiencing the same as me. In essence after much research, it turn out that in order to get it to work with Mac OSX client you need to add these 2 lines in your smb.conf file (/etc/samba/smb.conf): ea support = yes vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr So now my smb.conf file looks like this: ============================= [global] workgroup = SAMBA unix charset = utf8 security = user [Work] comment = FileServer path = /path/to/folder/Work guest ok = no valid users = user force user = user writeable = yes browsable = yes inherit permissions = yes inherit acls = yes ea support = yes vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr wide links = no follow symlinks = yes =============================== Hope it helps someone who are/were experiencing the same problem as me. Please also take a look at these references I used: Unfortunately I'm unable to post link to my references as I'm a newbie to this site. But if you like this and if this article solves you problem, please like it and that would allow me to post my reference links to this problem. Kind Regards GMSS
This is fantastic! Sorted out my problem completely - thanks GMSS really appreciated, you a life saver - Solved
Wow, this is cool. I've been messing about with this for weeks with no fix, I had heard about (and used) VFS Fruit but didn't know how to append the extended attributes etc. etc. How cool is this? No need for our old Mac server anymore or to waste time with Windows which was incredibly slow at listing files and folders and frankly cronky. Brill job - Thanks
GMSS - my boss is going ot be so pleased that I've fixed this issue, we were having nightmares with our CENTOS Linux servers and the Macs in our Organisation, whenever anyone created an alias to a file or folder they'd just open in Terminal, then I read your article and I can't believe how quickly I was able to sort this! You're a Genius GMSS. I've always hated Windows servers but was starting to lose credibility with my Boss because of these problems I couldn't sort on Linux - you've probably saved my job! Fantastic
Hi Tereza, I'm glad this solved this for you. Here are the links I referenced as promised: https://www.mankier.com/8/vfs_fruit https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=126142 Kind Regards GMSS
