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Title: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: morpheus on May 16, 2017, 12:03:04 PM

G'day, business has added a couple of Mac desktops and laptops much to my dismay. I have spent a long time trying to find how to allow the Macs to access the file-sharing system. Could find nothing in Documentation to assist me (plenty on Windows connections, setup). So I would humbly suggest that a section be added to Chapter 7 configuring the computers on your network to give a quick reference to the procedure to allow the Mac OSX users to map the shared folders and access them.

I am still to test the following:

     Finder->Go->Connect to Server
     Enter the following: smb://[server-ip]/[share-name],
     Enter sme-server username and password
     Connect

If this is not the correct procedure, please correct. If I have posted in wrong place, please move to appropriate place.

Title: Re: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on May 16, 2017, 02:14:55 PM

This is a good suggestion.

Google night give you few results including http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/30/connect-smb-nas-network-shares-os-x-mavericks/

Would you be able to write something for us to include with some pictures and reference to the os version?

Title: Re: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: morpheus on May 17, 2017, 11:40:05 AM

Thanks for the link as this issue has been very irritating. I will check the use of cifs instead of smb tomorrow, and if it works I will write up my notes to include in the appropriate manual section.

Title: Re: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: mmccarn on May 18, 2017, 01:20:57 PM

My Macbook Air running El Capitan (10.11) "sees" my SME 9 server in Finder.

- Open Finder
- "show" (expand) 'Shared'
- Locate the hostname of the SME server
- Click on it
- enter SME user and password when prompted

I now get two shares in Finder - 'Primary', and the share belonging to the user whose account I used to login.

The 'Primary' share shows me the contents of /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/

The user share shows me the contents of /home/e-smith/files/users/mmccarn/home

I have made no customizations to the SMB portions of my SME, and I don't have it configured as an active directory controller.

Title: Re: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on May 18, 2017, 04:28:04 PM

So simple and stupid, no tricks ?

Great to hear

Title: Re: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: morpheus on May 19, 2017, 04:27:34 AM

using cifs://[ip address] instead of smb://[ip address] solved my issues.

Title: Re: Suggestion re Samba/SMB and Mac OSX
Post by: Stefano on May 19, 2017, 07:12:38 AM

You'd never use the IP address
Use the FQDN of your server