Where is the SMB client config is OSX 10.8 ?

[Jonathan Woodall]

I can't find an smb.conf file anywhere, and I can't find it anywhere online. 

Any clues? I need to change a locking setting.

[admf...@gmail.com]

not sure if this is correct but it  might be here

 /private/etc/smb.conf

found this from here 

http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/03/unleash-the-power-of-samba-under-os-x/

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:16:11 -0400, Jonathan Woodall <tomjo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't find an smb.conf file anywhere, and I can't find it anywhere online. 

Any clues? I need to change a locking setting.

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[admf...@gmail.com]

might be here if what i've found is right

 /opt/local/etc/samba3/smb.conf 

per this site 

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120401160655922

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:16:11 -0400, Jonathan Woodall <tomjo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't find an smb.conf file anywhere, and I can't find it anywhere online. 

Any clues? I need to change a locking setting.

[Jonathan Woodall]

There is no /opt on the system.

[stevea]

Seems you may need to create ....

/etc/nsmb.conf The global configuration file

~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf
The user's configuration file, conflicts will be overwritten by the global file.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/nsmb.conf.5.html



As always w/ UNIX/Linux,even SX, google's your pal.

[Bill Mayhew]

I've heard mixed stories about SMB being broken in 10.7 and 10.8.  Most of the grumbling is that XP and older clients have trouble authenticating to SMB shards on an OS X 10.8 host.  10.7 had some sysctl tricks to allow deprecated connection mode.  It changed in 10.8.  I'm sure if you nose around on a search engine that you'll find an answer since 10.8 has been out since July 2012. Here are couple clues I found in a quick search:

 

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=47&topicid=106619 and

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4697?viewlocale=en_US  (older reference, but applicable)

 

It is probably best to use the GUI for configuration and not trying to manaully tweak things in a sudo bash terminal session.  OS X has a tendency to like to spontaneously make changes to stuff to make it the way OS X thinks you ought to have it.

 

If you are trying to sort out an installation cabbaged up by a neophyte, if you're lucky, time machine was on, and you can simply go back to before the point where the damage was done.

[Jonathan Woodall]

Bill, 

Can you tell me where the setting to turn opportunistic locking on and off on the SMB client end of OS X is in the GUI?

I can't find such a setting to save my life.

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[Bill Mayhew]

I had trouble finding fresh documentation.  I don't have 10.8 becuase my Mac hardware, despite being a core2 duo machine, is not up to running 10.8 according to Apple's dictum.  Go figure.

 

Perviously, the vifs command could be used from a sudo'ed shell to edit your fstab, but now it is autofs, or something else?...

 

CIFS mounting option  documentation (general):

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.commadmn/doc/commadmndita/smbfs_mount.htm

 

If you can figure out where Apple has squirreled away the mount, ir seems you should be able to add -o op=0 to the mount string to disable oplocks.  Turning off oplocks may significantly degrade performance if the architecture of the application is such that it does a lot of small random writes.

 

Helpful information for debugging CIFS protocol:

http://www.codefx.com/CIFS_Explained.htm

 

Apollogies for not being any more helpful than that.