[WHoWHo]

To me samba has just too much magic, especially when mixing unix, OSX and windows clients.

[pnutjam]

magic is just technology we don't understand. I use cifs over nfs as well.

[WHoWHo]

With excel locking, os x trashes, etc.? What good configuration guide would you suggest for a mixed Linux, OS X and Windows environment with MS Office?

This magic only solves have the problems

    fruit:resource = xattr
    fruit:metadata = netatalk
    fruit:locking = none
    fruit:encoding = private
    delete veto files = yes
    veto files = /.snapshot/.windows/.mac/.TemporaryItems/.DS_Store