[OT] OS X and Samba - Solved

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 21:41, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

Yeah well the Mac is still here so don't rule it out yet ;)

> > 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.
> 

I think its a BSD command. My OpenBSD boxes have it as well. It looks
like its pretty close too the chattr command.


Cheers,

Shawn