1. Configure the samba share in linux. It needs to have the “delete readonly = yes” line, if not, you will permission errors in .svn/entries when checking out projects in mac. so we need something like this:
[homes]
comment = LAM IT Home Directories
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Just like microsoft active directory, having a centralised authentication server in linux is important especially when you have more than one server or service to manage. Just imagine each service (ssh, samba, httpd…etc) has its own user database… Sooner or later, you will find managing users very difficult. A simple task like deleting a user [...]
following the samba/nfs post – http://www.azhowto.com/2009/08/07/mounting-file-systems-and-autofs-tips/ earlier, what if we do not know the ip address of the samba server?
if you just have the samba server name say ri-fnp, smbclient can find it easily for you, just do
smbclient //ri-fnp/backup -U user -W MYDOMAIN
If you want to mount it, you will need to know the ip [...]
I find “man samba_selinux” really well documented. All the common problems associate with samba selinux can be found there.
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