So I’ve had my new Mac Mini about a week now, and I’ve slowly been tweaking odd things, and playing with this and that as I go along. I’ve got PHP working (albeit PHP 4), and MySQL is running. I’ve yet to join the two up though as it’s not playing nice, but that’s next on my list of things to
thing that has been causing me consternation has been the Samba server. Mac OS X has had this excellent suite of software for some time (since the first version I believe) and it allows Macs and PCs to interact with file and print. My usual method of getting files onto a web server is to just have a share on the server mounted on my PC, so I can use my local software to hack pages and load them in a browser.
So far, I’ve not had much luck. I enabled file sharing, and enabled my account to connect, but I can’t get the damn thing to log in. There seems to be something weird going on with the back end authorisation. It doesn’t use the standard smbpassword back end, instead connecting to opendirectory internally. Obviously the subtle link between samba and opendirectory has broken somewhere in the Intel build of OS X Tiger, as there’s quite a few people on the Apple forums with the same sort of problem. The trouble is, the people trying to help are providing answers that would probably get most average users going. I provide log traces and other info and basically get ignored. Still, I suppose I’ll get to the bottom of it sometime. Just takes a bit more digging!