NAS networkdrive not working with SMB (no files on drive in Leopard)

I have no answer but exactly the same problem. Difficult to connect to my NAS box in the first place and now I cannot see any folders or files. I know they are there - connect with USB and up they come - but cannot see them anywhere with leopard finder. If I create a folder I either get "error 36" or it immediately disappears from view!

same with me

I have the same issue with accessing my NAS drive via SMB since installing Leopard. I can connect but all the files are invisible. Although I have been able to access the files via Parallels using Win XP Pro on my MBP. I was thinking it was permissions but I can't seem to verify disk permissions in Disk Utility even if I attach the drive directly with USB. Any ideas?

All of my music is on that drive so it's going to be a quiet couple of months until Apple finally acknowledge this issue and fix it. Fingers crossed.

No answers here, but I have the exact same problem. I have a WinXP PC that is sharing some files which I can connect to no problem. But my NAS folder when mounted shows no files in it. I checked in the Terminal that the NAS folder is mounted in /Volumes/public and it is. When I go in and ls, it shows nothing.

This is very annoying.

Question: Can you fellows make new folders on the shares and see them?

I'll try this when I get home.

I also recall that if I tried to cd into a directory (from Terminal) on the mounted NAS SMB share, I would get an error saying "RPC struct is bad". If I tried to cd to a non-existent directory it would have a different error message.

I tried to make new folders in the "empty" NAS mount when I was in finder, but it would disappear almost instantly. Looking at the same directory using my Parallels and Windows Explorer shows that the directory has in fact been made. I think this drive now acts like a "drop box" of some kind. Dropping a couple of files into the NAS directory from Finder worked fine (showed up in Windows Explorer).

When I access the mounted NAS drive in terminal and try to cd /whatever the invisible folders, I too get the "RPC struct is bad" response from terminal. I have no idea what this means but if a couple of us have had this problem then maybe more people could have it and it could be a major symptom of the problem of why Leopard (especially Finder) cannot see these files on an SMB connected NAS drive.

I have also looked on the discussions on this website and on other forums for many other SMB issues to see if their fixes would fix this issue, but still nothing i could see that would fix this.

I have also read that this is a Samba issue (as Leopard is apparently using the latest version of open source Samba which differs to the one in Tiger as it apparently is UNIX based) - honestly i don't care who's issue it is though (or for that matter why Apple didn't find this problem in "testing"), but i want it fixed.

Another forum that is dealing with this problem on this website is http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5888382&#5888382

I have the same issue - accessing a CoolMax-550 NAS.

The connection is fine - once I found the IP address to connect to but it shows an empty folder.

When I connect via ftp - I see the complete set of files.

I have uploaded new files to new folders and they don't appear in the Finder either.

I'm unable to reproduce this problem, so it makes it hard to figure out. I'm able to connect to SMB shares on everything I throw at it. The FreeBSD home server, the wife's linux/XP box on both OS's, My MBP running tiger. It sounds like a file permission problem of some kind... strange.

Further to my last post I contacted the manufacturer technical support of my Vantec Nexstar LX hard drive and they responded with this:

"Our development team is aware of the problem and is working on a new
firmware to resolve this issue. At the moment, our LX enclosure is not
fully supported under Mac OS X 10.5. We are sorry for the inconvenience
this may have cause you. If you have any further question, please don't
hesitate to ask and we will do our best to answer them."

You will probably find that most manufacturers will be trying to work on a fix for it. So if you have not contacted your NAS manufacturer, I would recommend it, as they may have a beta version of the new firmware to fix this SMB problem.

Basically I am going to sit tight and work around to the NAS through my Parallels XP and hopefully Vantec will release a new firmware version soon. Fingers crossed!

I can't reproduce it either on my iMac, but I know some people who're also having this problem... . Frankly, it drives them mad... .

Slightly different problem:
I can see my NAS in the finder and its files, but I have to use the IP address in order to use the web interface of the NAS.

It seems that the main network name resolver doesn't use WINS or Samba, but the finder somehow sees them.

I also have the Vantec NAS drive and have the same experience.

okay, so i am having this same problem as almost everyone. i am using a buffalo terastation nas in an active directory domain. here are my thoughts for what they are worth:

the shares on the NAS are reacting like the shares on a win2003 server before disabling smb signing.

if i allow guest access (which disables password required access) on the nas everything works fine.

being that leopard supports smb signing, can we say that the issue may be with the smb signing (which is not supported by the nas)?

if so, how do we disable smb signing in leopard? if someone can tell me, i would be willing to try it.

Okay, this is how I fix it everytime my network drives do not show anything in them, and I know there are files/directories there...

first off you will need to connect to your drive in a way that you are able to view all the files. Once you are able to view the files (of course not in OS X) you will want to look for the hidden files that start with a period (.). Mine are as follows:

.AppleDB/
.AppleDesktop/
.AppleDouble/

and these too:
:2eTemporaryItems/
:2eDS_Store

Find these on your NAS shares or whereever and delete them... they will be recreated when you connect to those shares again. You will also want to delete them in every folder on your NAS drive or share, just to be sure. Hopefully this works, and for the record if this 'does' work then it isn't necessarily isolated to just Leopard because I saw this all the time in Tiger...

oh and if your NAS drive or NFS share is on a linux box you can use this one liner to delete all the directories:

find . -type d -name .AppleD* -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

this should work and it will only delete directories/files matching .AppleD* and I am sure not many people name there files in this fashion.