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<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>vfs_fruit</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
	<refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
	<refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
	<refmiscinfo class="version">&doc.version;</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>


<refnamediv>
	<refname>vfs_fruit</refname>
	<refpurpose>Enhanced OS X and Netatalk interoperability</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
	<cmdsynopsis>
		<command>vfs objects = fruit</command>
	</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
	<title>DESCRIPTION</title>

	<para>This VFS module is part of the
	<citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>

	<para>The <command>vfs_fruit</command> module provides
	enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and
	interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver.</para>

	<para>The module should be stacked with
	<command>vfs_catia</command> if enabling character conversion and
	must be stacked with <command>vfs_streams_xattr</command>, see the
	example section for the correct config.</para>

	<para>The module enables alternate data streams (ADS) support
	for a share, intercepts the OS X special streams "AFP_AfpInfo"
	and "AFP_Resource" and handles them in a special way. All
	other named streams are deferred to
	<command>vfs_streams_xattr</command> which must be loaded
	together with <command>vfs_fruit</command>.</para>

	<para>Be careful when mixing shares with and without
	vfs_fruit. OS X clients negotiate SMB2 AAPL protocol
	extensions on the first tcon, so mixing shares with and
	without fruit will globally disable AAPL if the first tcon is
	without fruit.</para>

	<para>Having shares with ADS support enabled for OS X client
	is worthwhile because it resembles the behaviour of Apple's
	own SMB server implementation and it avoids certain severe
	performance degradations caused by Samba's case sensitivity
	semantics.</para>

	<para>The OS X metadata and resource fork stream can be stored
	in a way compatible with Netatalk 3 by setting
	<command>fruit:resource = file</command> and
	<command>fruit:metadata = netatalk</command>.</para>

	<para>OS X maps NTFS illegal characters to the Unicode private
	range in SMB requests. By setting <command>fruit:encoding =
	native</command>, all mapped characters are converted to
	native ASCII characters.</para>

	<para>Finally, share access modes are optionally checked
	against Netatalk AFP sharing modes by setting
	<command>fruit:locking = netatalk</command>.</para>

	<para>This module is not stackable other than described in
	this manpage.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>GLOBAL OPTIONS</title>

	<para>The following options must be set in the global smb.conf section
	and won't take effect when set per share.</para>

	<variablelist>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:aapl = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>A <emphasis>global</emphasis> option whether to enable Apple's SMB2+
	      extension codenamed AAPL. Default
	      <emphasis>yes</emphasis>. This extension enhances
	      several deficiencies when connecting from Macs:</para>

	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para>directory enumeration is enriched with
		Mac relevant filesystem metadata (UNIX mode,
		FinderInfo, resource fork size and effective
		permission), as a result the Mac client doesn't need
		to fetch this metadata individually per directory
		entry resulting in an often tremendous performance
		increase.</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para>The ability to query and modify the
		UNIX mode of directory entries.</para></listitem>
	      </itemizedlist>

	      <para>There's a set of per share options that come into play when
	      <emphasis>fruit:aapl</emphasis> is enabled. These opions, listed
	      below, can be used to disable the computation of specific Mac
	      metadata in the directory enumeration context, all are enabled by
	      default:</para>

	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para>readdir_attr:aapl_rsize = yes | no</para></listitem>
		<listitem><para>readdir_attr:aapl_finder_info = yes | no</para></listitem>
		<listitem><para>readdir_attr:aapl_max_access = yes | no</para></listitem>
	      </itemizedlist>

	      <para>See below for a description of these options.</para>

	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:nfs_aces = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>A <emphasis>global</emphasis> option whether support for
	      querying and modifying the UNIX mode of directory entries via NFS
	      ACEs is enabled, default <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:copyfile = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>A <emphasis>global</emphasis> option whether to enable OS X
	      specific copychunk ioctl that requests a copy of a whole file
	      along with all attached metadata.</para>
	      <para>WARNING: the copyfile request is blocking the
	      client while the server does the copy.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>no</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:zero_file_id = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>A <emphasis>global</emphasis> option whether to return
	      zero to queries of on-disk file identifier, if the client
	      has negotiated AAPL.</para>
	      <para>Mac applications and / or the Mac SMB
	      client code expect the on-disk file identifier to have the
	      semantics of HFS+ Catalog Node Identifier (CNID). Samba
	      doesn't provide those semantics, and that occasionally cause
	      usability issues or even data loss. Returning a file identifier
	      of zero causes the Mac client to stop using and trusting the
	      file id returned from the server.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:model = MacSamba</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>This option defines the model string inside the AAPL
	      extension and will determine the appearance of the icon representing the
	      Samba server in the Finder window.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>MacSamba</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>
	</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>OPTIONS</title>

	<para>The following options can be set either in the global smb.conf section
	or per share.</para>

	<variablelist>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:resource = [ file | xattr | stream ]</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Controls where the OS X resource fork is stored.</para>

	      <para>Due to a spelling bug in all Samba versions older then
	      4.6.0, this option can also be given as
	      <emphasis>fruit:ressource</emphasis>, ie with two s.</para>

	      <para>Settings:</para>

	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para><command>file (default)</command> - use a ._
		AppleDouble file compatible with OS X and
		Netatalk</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para><command>xattr</command> - use a
		xattr, requires a filesystem with large xattr support
		and a file IO API compatible with xattrs, this boils
		down to Solaris and derived platforms and
		ZFS</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para><command>stream (experimental)</command> - pass
		the stream on to the next module in the VFS stack.
		<emphasis>Warning: </emphasis> this option should not be used
		with the <emphasis>streams_xattr</emphasis> module due to the
		extended attributes size limitations of most
		filesytems.</para></listitem>
	      </itemizedlist>

	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:time machine = [ yes | no ]</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Controls if Time Machine support via the FULLSYNC volume
	      capability is advertised to clients.</para>

	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para><command>yes</command> - Enables Time Machine
		support for this share. Also registers the share with mDNS in
		case Samba is built with mDNS support.</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para><command>no (default)</command> Disables
		advertising Time Machine support.</para></listitem>

	      </itemizedlist>

	      <para>This option enforces the following settings per share (or
	      for all shares if enabled globally):</para>
	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para><command>durable handles = yes</command></para></listitem>
		<listitem><para><command>kernel oplocks = no</command></para></listitem>
		<listitem><para><command>kernel share modes = no</command></para></listitem>
		<listitem><para><command>posix locking = no</command></para></listitem>
	      </itemizedlist>

	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:time machine max size = SIZE [K|M|G|T|P]</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Useful for Time Machine: limits the reported disksize, thus
	      preventing Time Machine from using the whole real disk space for
	      backup. The option takes a number plus an optional unit.</para>
	      <para><emphasis>IMPORTANT</emphasis>: This is an approximated
	      calculation that only takes into account the contents of Time
	      Machine sparsebundle images. Therefor you <emphasis>MUST
	      NOT</emphasis> use this volume to store other content when using
	      this option, because it would NOT be accounted.</para>
	      <para>The calculation works by reading the band size from the
	      Info.plist XML file of the sparsebundle, reading the bands/
	      directory counting the number of band files, and then multiplying
	      one with the other.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:metadata = [ stream | netatalk ]</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Controls where the OS X metadata stream is stored:</para>

	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para><command>netatalk (default)</command> - use
		Netatalk compatible xattr</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para><command>stream</command> - pass the
		stream on to the next module in the VFS
		stack</para></listitem>
	      </itemizedlist>

	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:locking = [ netatalk | none ]</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para></para>
	      <itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para><command>none (default)</command> - no
		cross protocol locking</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para><command>netatalk</command> - use
		cross protocol locking with Netatalk</para></listitem>

	      </itemizedlist>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:encoding = [ native | private ]</term>
	    <listitem>

	      <para>Controls how the set of illegal NTFS ASCII
	      character, commonly used by OS X clients, are stored in
	      the filesystem.</para>

	      <para><emphasis>Important:</emphasis> this is known to not fully
	      work with <emphasis>fruit:metadata=stream</emphasis> or
	      <emphasis>fruit:resource=stream</emphasis>.</para>

 	      <itemizedlist>

		<listitem><para><command>private (default)</command> -
		store characters as encoded by the OS X client: mapped
		to the Unicode private range</para></listitem>

		<listitem><para><command>native</command> - store
		characters with their native ASCII
		value. <emphasis>Important</emphasis>: this option
		requires the use of <emphasis>vfs_catia</emphasis> in
		the VFS module stack as shown in the examples
		section.</para></listitem>

	      </itemizedlist>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:veto_appledouble = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> this option only applies when
	      <parameter>fruit:resource</parameter> is set to
	      <parameter>file</parameter> (the default).</para>

	      <para>When <parameter>fruit:resource</parameter> is set to
	      <parameter>file</parameter>, vfs_fruit may create ._ AppleDouble
	      files. This options controls whether these ._ AppleDouble files
	      are vetoed which prevents the client from accessing them.</para>
	      <para>Vetoing ._ files may break some applications, eg
	      extracting Mac ZIP archives from Mac clients failes,
	      because they contain ._ files. Setting this option to
	      false will fix this, but the abstraction leak of
	      exposing the internally created ._ files may have other
	      unknown side effects.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>fruit:posix_rename = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Whether to enable POSIX directory rename behaviour
	      for OS X clients. Without this, directories can't be
	      renamed if any client has any file inside it
	      (recursive!) open.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>readdir_attr:aapl_rsize = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Return resource fork size in SMB2 FIND responses.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>readdir_attr:aapl_finder_info = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Return FinderInfo in SMB2 FIND responses.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	  <varlistentry>
	    <term>readdir_attr:aapl_max_access = yes | no</term>
	    <listitem>
	      <para>Return the user's effective maximum permissions in SMB2 FIND
	      responses. This is an expensive computation, setting this to off
	      pretends the use has maximum effective permissions.</para>
	      <para>The default is <emphasis>yes</emphasis>.</para>
	    </listitem>
	  </varlistentry>

	</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>EXAMPLES</title>

<programlisting>
        <smbconfsection name="[share]"/>
	<smbconfoption name="vfs objects">catia fruit streams_xattr</smbconfoption>
	<smbconfoption name="fruit:resource">file</smbconfoption>
	<smbconfoption name="fruit:metadata">netatalk</smbconfoption>
	<smbconfoption name="fruit:locking">netatalk</smbconfoption>
	<smbconfoption name="fruit:encoding">native</smbconfoption>
</programlisting>

</refsect1>

<refsect1>
	<title>AUTHOR</title>

	<para>The original Samba software and related utilities
	were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
	by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
	to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>

</refsect1>

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