Thumbs.db, Windows XP, and Leopard Server

So, it seems that with a default installation of Leopard Server and a Windows XP client, you will be able to write a Thumbs.db file to a Samba share, but not read it. Seems silly enough but here is what fixed it for me:

Edit /private/etc/smb.conf and replace this line:

vfs objects = darwinacl, darwin_streams

with this: (removing “, darwin_streams”)

vfs objects = darwinacl
Then change these lines:

; The darwin_streams module gives us named streams support. stream support = yes ea support = yes

to this:

; The darwin_streams module gives us named streams support. stream support = no ea support = no

References

Samba shares and HFS extended attributes – MacOSX.com

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Published:: September 13, 2008 / 11:04 pm

Category:: How-To, Troubleshooting

Tags:: Leopard, OS X, Samba, Server, Troubleshooting

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This worked for me but for a different/similar problem. Users with roaming profiles were getting errors when logging out. When the copy process would hit certain *.url files stored in the favorites folder it would fail. No strange permissions or anything, it would say it was unable to update the given file because of network or permission problems. There would be a long space after that followed by a detail, saying there wasn’t enough space on the disk to write the file. (multiple Gigs were in fact available).

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