NAS & OSX Mavericks

[Alex Gardiner]

[Bob Zelin] “you cannot run Thursby DAVE with OS X Mavericks. Thursby DAVE worked up to OS X 10.8.5. That’s it.
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Thursby do Dave version 11 for Mavericks. I’m running it in right here 😉

https://www.thursby.com/products/dave

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[Chris Murphy]

Mucking with configuration files without understanding the problem isn’t a good idea. It’s like throwing spaghetti at a wall. Yeah you might resolve the current problem, but then end up with some other problem, or at least a mess. Certainly the IT guy needs to see the relevant server and client logs, to get some idea why the two are becoming disagreeable after the handshake.

It’s entirely possible the two are already negotiating an SMB 1 connection, and yet are still having a problem. It’s possible the Linux Samba server is configured to deny falling back to SMB 1 so the problem may get worse by making unfounded changes. So ask him what sort of bribery is required to get him to look at server and client logs and suggest the next steps to get to a stable connection. At some point you could let him know that if he gets into a bind and prefers to configure Samba on OS X instead of using Apple’s homebrew, a relatively recent Samba 3 source for OS X is available at Macports. That means all of the hard work of getting the source code to compile on OS X is already done. You “only” have to install macports (free), and XCode (free), and learn how to use the ports command (non-obvious but not overly difficult) to download the source and compile it, and optionally create an installer package for deployment on multiple machines.