10.5: A workaround for -43 error mounting SMB shares

After upgrading to Leopard, I found I was unable to mount any of the shares on my Linux file server, getting the following error: The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -43) At first I thought this was because of the security configuration I was using on the file server, or perhaps because Leopard had changed the type of authentication method it was expecing from an SMB file server (NTLMv2 for example). It turns out it was a lot simpler -- it was because all of the shares on the file server were set as non-browseable (Browseable = No in /etc/smb.conf. Changing at least one share to be browseable corrected the issue and let me connect to the file server and mount the shares available, regardless of if they were set as Browseable or not. It should ...
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:30:05 +0100

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