Claude_B

Q: OS X El Capitan / NAS Connectivity

Hello,

 

I am really puzzled by my new Macbook - I usually work with PCs - I always thought Unix based Machines are network champions...

May be I am doing something wrong - any help would be great.

 

I wanted simply to connect to my NAS so I used "Connect to server" worked fine but somehow each time I am going idle or logoff the connection is lost and

needs newly to be set up. Then I did some research and found that there is AFP - outdated and sone to be dead but solid - and SMB which appears to be buggy ... sounds promising :-( Then I learned that I have to mount my NAS connection each time that my Mac wakes up or is booting ... ok so I set up a script... but still... On the NAS I activated SMB / AFP / NFS and Bonjour.

 

My experience in "outsourcing" my mp3 managed by Itunes on a NAS was a nightmare - slow and when the connection was lost Itunes started again to create its own library on the Mac... I know that Itunes is not a client/server solution but if the network connections where not that buggy in the first place I would not have these problems.

 

Just to my background I love Apple - started with a Mac SE and switched about 15 years ago to the PC-World but never really wanted it.

But this strange way to handle network connection ist really bad and frustrating! Unfortunately on a PC I just map once the network drive and that's it - it may take some ms more when coming out of idle but it is never a problem to reconnect.

 

What is wrong with my setup? Any idea? What are your experiences?

 

Thanks

Claude

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Dec 20, 2015 12:24 PM

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