Hi all..

I was experiencing some weird behavior with my Tonido plug and using SAMBA/SMB mounted shares on my macs, dragging and dropping an application in finder would fail part way through the copy and I would be unable to delete what was there (Id get an error that the resource was in use) in finder).. I would have to manually SSH into the plug and issue an RM command to remove the failed copied file directory.. I discovered that apparently Leopard’s SMB/CIFS supports the Unix Extensions, which include support for server-side symbolic links which can cause all kinds of weird problems with some files (specifically application bundles that contain symlinks e.g. JollysFastVNC) ..

I found this webpage that had the solution I was looking for .. adding
"unix extensions = no"
to the global section of the smb.conf and restarting the plug fixed the problem I was having of copying certain applications to SMB shares.

SMB mounted Tonido plug shares now work perfectly as expected on a mac using 10.5+ ..

http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2007/11/19/fi ... 5-leopard/

Fixing the SMB Symlink problem with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

by Rodney.Campbell on Nov.19, 2007, under Technology

I have a number of samba shares on a Sun Solaris machine which we wish to access from a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Within these shares I often have a number of symbolic links in the unix filesystem pointing to various files and directories. In Tiger everything worked just fine. But in Leopard it tries to translate these links (aliases) to the local filesystem, which of course results in the links being dead.

The problem is that Leopard’s SMB/CIFS supports the Unix Extensions, which include support for server-side symbolic links.

I havn’t yet found a solution which could fix this at the client end however adding:

unix extensions = no

to the servers smb.conf file disables these unix extensions and returns the overall functionality back to how it was with Tiger.

Thanks we will check if this can be added to our TonidoPlug updates.

Or atleast as an "option" in a settings/administration panel somewhere..