Leopard Server : SMB corrupts files

[fleecy]

OS X Server, OD Master, 10.5.2 update applied. 4 GB RAM, SMB server enabled and set to be PDC. Windows XP Pro SP2 clients.

Users accessing shares through SMB experience major issues. If they open a file on the server, try to make a change and save the file, they receive a permissions error. The file on the server gets wiped, replaced by an empty file whose name begins with a tilde (~); a bunch of .tmp files are also created and not deleted. Mac AFP clients work fine, BTW; connecting a Mac through SMB generates the error, this time about the file being read-only. No TMP files are created from Macs.

The SMB File Servce log shows the following error repeatedtly :

[2008/03/17 10:27:05, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-187/samba/source/smbd/server.c:main(890)
smbd version 3.0.25b-apple started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2007
The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug.]

I tried to switch SMB back to standalone server; doesn’t help. I tried to demote OD to Standalone and promote it back up, then promote SMB to PDC again (as was suggested on the Apple forums); didn’t work. The error stays.

[cichlisuite]

I am having the exact same problem with my server. Any chance you found a fix fleecy?

[Dave Hagan]

I have an idea. Disable ACLs on the volume where the shares are. In Leopard this can only be done in the Terminal since Leopard’s default is ACL enabled. Download the command line guide from Apple’s site and do a search for ACL.

Edit: IIRC, I think you have to unshare the shares, then do the command line to disable ACLs, then reboot. Reshare the shares.

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