OSX 10.4.1 can’t access Samba shares
One of my housemates has an iBook with OSX 10.4.1; whenever she tries to access a Samba share on by Debian box, her Finder hangs. Turns out that starting with 10.4, Apple requires NTLMv2 encryption. I don’t understand why it would matter in my case (the shares are open to guest access, there are no passwords to encrypt), but Finder hangs nevertheless. The standard workaround (enabling plain-text smb authentication on OSX) doesn’t work. As this discussion suggests, there are deeper bugs in the 10.4.1 Finder.
So unless Apple releases 10.4.2 tomorrow, I need to figure out how to set up WebDAV, which (I fervently hope) has proper OSX support…