[OT] OS X and Samba - Solved

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:11:55PM -0500, Shawn L Johnston took 25 lines to write:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:50, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> > Anyone know how to keep Mac OS X server (panther) from helpfully
> > overwritting your smb.conf file?
> > 
> > Additionally any ideas on why OS X samba doesn't recognize the "read
> > size" option in the smb.conf file?
> > 
> > I want to kill myself.... thanks,

We're glad, *I'm* glad, you didn't have to resort to self-defenestration
to resolve your Samba/OS X problem.

> Ok so here's one way to prevent OS X from messing things up, use the
> chgflags command
> 
> chflags uchg /etc/smb.conf
> 
> will prevent the OS from correcting your mistakes.

Is chflags an OS X command? It looks like it might be comparable
to Linux's chattr command.

Kurt
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