Comments on: Ubuntu and Mac OS X Integration

By: jhon

jhon — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:33:03 +0000

HELLO I AM NEW TO UBUNTU LINUX AND RECENTLY MADE THE MISTAKE OF TRYING TO INTALL UBUNTU ON MY MAC LABTOP IS WAY FASTER OPERATING SYSTEM BUT IS A PROBLEM THE SCREEN IS SPLIT SCREEN CAN ANY ONE HELP ME PLEASE HELP

By: emp

emp — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:41:58 +0000

Hi, how did u manage to split afp and samba in 2 services advertised? I browsed a lot, but seems I cannot find any reference.

By: Dean H. Saxe

Dean H. Saxe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:19:41 +0000

Charles,

I have done this and done a few backup/restore operations at this point.

-dhs

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:39:40 +0000

I’ve used Time Machine to restore individual files. I don’t trust Time Machine for a full system backup–I have a local FireWire drive and a copy of Super Duper for full system backups. (And yes, I could have used Time Machine with the local FireWire drive, but what’s the fun in that?)

By: Charles Francis

Charles Francis — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:12:50 +0000

Have you tried to do a Time Machine Restore yet? I’m wondering about doing a backup across the network and then having to do a complete rebuild restore.

Any success or attempts?

By: L337Tech

L337Tech — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:00:44 +0000

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-L337Tech

By: slowe

slowe — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:43:35 +0000

Fernando, I just set the group on the directory to something like “users”–then I create all users with membership in that group–and used the command “chmod g+s” on the directory. This ensures that all files created in the directory have that group assigned to them. Combined with a umask that allows write permission to group members, you’ve created yourself a shared directory that anyone can contribute to and edit files in.

If you want people to contribute files but only be able to modify their own, then you’ll need to adjust the umask accordingly.

Hope this helps!

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:40:52 +0000

Thanks for the response. I was able to give the shared volume an unmask value of 0. But I cant find any documentation concerning sticky bit. I just want to turn this shared volume or folder in the volume to a public folder. Just like Mac OS would. Can you tell me how you did it?? Im a newbie to ubuntu, but I feel I am very close to accomplish this. Thanks again!!

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:47:03 +0000

Fernando,

You may need to set the umask on the directory, and set the group’s sticky bit on the directory as well (this will ensure that files inherit the group of the directory, not of the creator, and that the default permissions are set properly). I had to do both of these to make sure that Samba file sharing worked as expected.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:58:44 +0000

I’ve been trying to do the exact same thing last weekend. I was able to do most of your steps, but I go stuck in the permissions part. Everytime Windows writes on the ubuntu volume, ubuntu can’t modify that file (it’s locked), and neither can Mac OS. I assume it’s a permissions deal, so I wonder if you can point me in the right direction with this. I have a 3 network pc: ubuntu as server, and mac os x and windows xp machines connection throught apf and samba respectively. I wonder if there’s something about the authentication that can influence the restricted permissions I get.