On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:16:48PM +0100, Maarten de Boer wrote: > > a shot in the dark here, but i have a similar problem regarding huge > > sample libraries on my Mac. despite having hfsplus 1.0.4 installed on > > the redhat machine and OS X's samba active, i can access the volume > > from redhat, but can't access any files... > > > > anybody overcome these obstacles? > > i am accessing files shared with samba by macosx from linux without any > problem. you won't need the hfsplus. i don't remember what i did to set > it up at the mac site (and i don't have a monitor attached right now), > but i am quite sure it was the basic stuff as explained in the help. > > how are you mounting the samba share on the linux side? my guess is that > you don't specify the user id that the mounted share should have on the > linux side. > > if my linux users' uid is 1021, and i want to mount the homedir of user > mdeboer on the mac, with hostname the_mac: > > mount -t smbfs -o username=mdeboer,uid=1021 //the_mac/mdeboer /mnt/mac > > maarten > If you're using KDE, then you can just enter 'smb://the_mac' in Konqueror. I'm not using user-based permissions with samba though... cheers, Christian
