After I had a problem transferring file over CIFS with my Macbook Pro, there are a lot of issues: stopping copying, missing files in a destination although successful operation. That was frustrated and surely I can’t give up on Samba just yet. I even have to do rsync or cp to get expectable outcome from such a simple task. By the way, after stumble across threads, KBs, I found the solution that make me happy for couple weeks so far.

Here is what I was looking for Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS

What you have to do is pretty simple, enabling named streams on Mac OS X client–yeah my machine! By opening up Terminal and type as following:-

echo "[default]" >>  ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf
echo "streams=yes" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

That is enabling named streams as a default for all smb connection. This makes my day indeed — not worrying if copying works as it should or not.

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