How are the SMB shares on OS X?

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Onamuji wrote:
[quote=Bimwad]
IIRC, at some point, Apple abandoned the commonly used, perfectly functional framework, and tried to roll their own, to poor reviews. But that was a while ago, so things should be working properly now, at least?

Apple abandoned the open source Samba in favor of a home-built solution based upon licensed Microsoft SMB code when the terms of the open source license changed to GPLv3. SMB sucks. Cant deal with ACLs properly. Screws up inheritance. Makes admin of a cross-platform server a nightmare.

But for your purposes... In the connect-to window, preface the IP address of your router with cifs:// instead of smb:// to use the simplest and most reliable way of connecting.
Too bad Apple didn't bother to actually update the older versions of Samba to the last update of their branch. Apple's Unix tools are almost always woefully out of date, even disregarding any licensing changes.

Edit: I suppose people seriously into these tools just compile their own or use one of the package manager systems like HomeBrew, Fink, or MacPorts.