[SOLVED] samba server on debian unusable by Mac client

Adam Hardy on 14/11/07 10:17, wrote:
>
> I'm trying to copy files from a Mac running OS X to a Samba share that I
> have set up on an Etch machine, using samba 3.0.24.
>
> The Mac complains that the file name is invalid (for any file even
> test.txt) and then refuses to copy, and the operation leaves a zero-byte
> file with the same name on the samba share.
>
> It lets me log in nicely through the Mac File Finder.
>
> I've spent hours searching the net without any luck at all, and the only
> reply I could get from the samba mailing list was that I should try
> running the server with Ubuntu.
>
> The samba share works fine from my other linux machine.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> Alternatively, is there another way of accessing a harddrive on my
> server from a Mac?

Found the answer in case anyone is searching this. The mac copies invisible .filename files and my smb.conf file had a veto rule blocking them by default. I removed it and they work fine.

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