Comments on: Fixing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Samba Write Access

By: dean

dean — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:48:07 +0000

@Sam: Did you read the entire post? This was a temporary workaround while we waited for Apple to fix the problem. The choice for many of us was either turn off Unix extensions or not be able to access Samba shares at all. I don’t think anyone deserves to be called “stupid” for making that choice.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:33:10 +0000

Another stupid Mac user. Disabling unix extensions is not a good solution. Lose file permissions and links.

By: mk3d

mk3d — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:17:23 +0000

Yeeeaaahh!! Thanks for this topic, it’s work fine!!! Many thanks!!!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:20:52 +0000

I too must express my gratitude.

However in the near future I will be moving to FreeNAS where I don’t think there will be a problem but I need to sort through and backup my videos and photos.

By: dean

dean — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:05:18 +0000

Sorry, no ideas and I couldn’t find anything that seemed relevant with a quick Google search.

By: dean

dean — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0000

The problem was fixed in 10.6.4 for most people.

By: dean

dean — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:56:36 +0000

Thanks for the info on fixing performance when turning off wide links. I understand that having Unix extensions on has benefits, however being able to write to my Samba mounts from OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 is an even bigger benefit. That’s purely a side effect of turning off Unix extensions and when Apple fixes the problem I’ll turn Unix extensions back on.

UPDATE: Apple appears to have fixed this problem in 10.6.4.

By: dean

dean — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:55:03 +0000

I verified that the problem is fixed in 10.6.4 on several systems. Thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:56:42 +0000

T H A N K Y O U ! ! ! ! You just ended hours of misery!

By: Elias Solis

Elias Solis — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:20:25 +0000

Apple fixes the problem -> 10.6.4