[yukon]

excuse the slight scent of a rant....

i just noticed a lot of newer files were missing on one of my main network mounts. i couldn't quite figure out what was going on, so i checked my smb.conf - the configurations necessary for me to properly create new files, has disappeared. it's back at the defaults, just after a couple weeks of use. OS X has somehow clobbered my smb.conf, and caused me to lose over two days of work.

I've heard of installers doing crap like this, as well as OS updates, but i have installed none since i replaced Appletalk with SMB. damn it, OS X is a Unix (for all "intensive purposes" ;). Unix veterans are drooling and finally switching - is Apple handing them an OS that might mysteriously undo their work in the terminal? now, i'm pissed off! and i want Apple to keep the Unix switchers!

i've got to reconfigure now, then lock the file (as if that'll help).

[utidjian]

Originally posted by yukon:
excuse the slight scent of a rant....

i just noticed a lot of newer files were missing on one of my main network mounts. i couldn't quite figure out what was going on, so i checked my smb.conf - the configurations necessary for me to properly create new files, has disappeared. it's back at the defaults, just after a couple weeks of use. OS X has somehow clobbered my smb.conf, and caused me to lose over two days of work.

I've heard of installers doing crap like this, as well as OS updates, but i have installed none since i replaced Appletalk with SMB. damn it, OS X is a Unix (for all "intensive purposes" . Unix veterans are drooling and finally switching - is Apple handing them an OS that might mysteriously undo their work in the terminal? now, i'm pissed off! and i want Apple to keep the Unix switchers!

i've got to reconfigure now, then lock the file (as if that'll help).

Not to put too fine a point on it... but there is a thing called backups that "Unix veterans" are fairly religious about doing. This becomes all the more important when you are not sure exactly what an installer or updater will do to your system.

With that said.... smb.conf is usually kept in /etc/ (or /private/etc/) and it is fairly trivial to make a tarball of the entire /etc/ folder, say, once a day and store it elsewhere.

Did you do a search for smb.conf in case it may have been moved somewhere else?

[superfoo]

Locking the file does fix it... this, and many other annoyances are why I stopped using OSX server on my primary fileserver... I found that the amount of Apple-installed utilities and services that I was having to strip out and replace due to stupid quirks or compatability problems was getting to the point that it defeated using OSX server to begin with.

As on aside, the PowerPC port of Linux runs great on a mac

[gatorparrots]

What are the permissions on the file? It should be unwritable by default:

Code:
-r--r--r--   1 root    wheel    1602 May  5 11:07 smb.conf

[proton]

Originally posted by yukon:
i just noticed a lot of newer files were missing on one of my main network mounts. i couldn't quite figure out what was going on, so i checked my smb.conf - the configurations necessary for me to properly create new files, has disappeared. it's back at the defaults, just after a couple weeks of use. OS X has somehow clobbered my smb.conf, and caused me to lose over two days of work.

I've heard of installers doing crap like this, as well as OS updates, but i have installed none since i replaced Appletalk with SMB.
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OS X in a standard configuration does not overwrite smb.conf. I've had a customised smb.conf for a long time (at least 5 or 6 months) and OS X has not overwritten it.

In cases where OS X updates have an updated configuration file for a service, they will save the old configuration file as filename.applesaved, for example, when Rendezvous was introduced to Apache, my edited httpd.conf was renamed to "httpd.conf.applesaved". Very easy to just diff the two files to see the changes and re-incorproate my changes into Apple's, or replace Apple's file with mine.

I'd say it was a non-Apple program which did this, in which case you can hardly blame Apple can you...?

- proton

[yukon]

backup? i had to stop when i got my 80gb hd, that's a lot of CDs ;-). The configuration wasn't important enough to back up, a simple matter to reconfigure, it was what I lost when it was down.

lol, i'm about to get another linux server going, so I won't bother OS X about the services. it'll be nice, this one is a celeron, i could put it in a closet somewhere.

nope, there's no .applesaved file there. just my own copies. i have no idea what killed it, i mean, i haven't run anything that should affect smb, and writing to the configuration requires root (i'm not running as root or admin even). I'm not sure, something with root access did it, better check the running processes, change password, and check for bad blocks.....i did just update to 10.2.6 (it was a fast download, did it early ;-), and to Apple's credit, nothing broke :-)