{"id":247,"date":"2009-11-10T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/bioit\/?p=247"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:01:47","slug":"snow-leopard-and-samba-for-pangea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/snow-leopard-and-samba-for-pangea\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Leopard and SAMBA for Pangea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) there have been reports of slowness, and hanging of the Finder when attempting to access SAMBA (SMB) network shares.&nbsp; SAMBA network shares are essentially the most popular type of network share in use today, and the primary method of sharing files between Macintosh computers and Windows computers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-250\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pangea_classic.png\" alt=\"pangea_classic\"><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for us, Pangea uses SAMBA to share its files.&nbsp; So, we have been experiencing these symptoms, primarily the hanging of Finder when attempting to browse through sub-directories within your Pangea space.&nbsp; For the past couple of months since Snow Leopard has been released, I have been patiently monitoring several forum threads for a solution as well as silently hoping that the releases of 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 would address and fix these issues automatically.&nbsp; This has not happened.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, these forum threads have provided a solution to this problem which I have implemented on the Pangea server.&nbsp; This solution was to remove a line in the Pangea SAMBA configuration file that prevented certain files from being created by Apple client computers (those of you connecting to Pangea with your Macintosh computers).&nbsp; This line is called the &#8216;veto file&#8217; setting is now turned off and Macintosh computers will start freely placing these strange files onto the Pangea spaces they access.&nbsp; These files include .DS_Store, .AppleDesktop, .AppleDouble, and .Trashes to name just a few.&nbsp; These files will not be visible to Macintosh computers, but will start showing up in the file lists for Windows computers.&nbsp; The important thing is that this has solved the SAMBA access issues with Finder.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the end users who glaze over with the above technical explanation &#8211; Snow Leopard can now access Pangea normally, but will be creating strange files and folders (.DS_Store, .AppleDesktop, .AppleDouble, .Trashes, etc.) which will only be viewable by Windows clients on default.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your patience with this, and I will remain optimistic that at some point the future I can re-enable the &#8216;veto file&#8217; line.&nbsp; Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) there have been reports of slowness, and hanging of the Finder when attempting to access SAMBA (SMB) network shares.&nbsp; SAMBA network shares are essentially the most popular type of network share in use today, and the primary method of sharing files between Macintosh computers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-general-cnsit","category-the-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}