Problem connecting to my Windows (SMB) share in 10.6

Changing to a numerical password has restored Finder/SMB access to my WD Netcenter (NAS). Thanks!

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@ Ekim Neems's windows problem

take the real (dns) name of ur maschine. it solved my problems with a server 2003 r2

connect to server -> smb://name-of-server/

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For me the numeric password doesn't change anything at all.

Using the DNS name doesn't work. I don't know why because from a windows computer I can ping the DNS name but from a Mac can't.

mfoxbud wrote:
For me the numeric password doesn't change anything at all.

Do you have the password stored in Keychain? In addition to changing to a numeric password on my NAS, I had to open Keychain and change the password that was stored for it.

Rob J. wrote:

mfoxbud wrote:
For me the numeric password doesn't change anything at all.

Do you have the password stored in Keychain? In addition to changing to a numeric password on my NAS, I had to open Keychain and change the password that was stored for it.

I never store the server passwords in Keychain.

I'm having similar trouble. This weekend, I updated all of my machines to Snow Leopard, and I can no longer access any of the SMB mounts I have from Linux. I use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I SMB mount so that I can edit source files from the Mac using BBEdit.

I've tried all the suggestions posted here thus far. But nothing has worked for me.

Hi Guys, the suggestion to change the password to numeric only works for me. I am using DLINK NAS DNS-232

Simply do this:
1. Change your password to numeric from your NAS control panel or web panel
2.Go to "Connect To server"
3. Input "smb://192.168.1.1" (change the ip address to your NAS ip address)
4. login using your user id (no need to insert domain or any special char) and your numeric only password

I believe this is a bug in Snow Leopard, looking forward for Apple to fix it. For now I will just live with this condition.

Hi,

Here is the status before:
OS: 10.5
Finder->Go->Connect to Server->Favorite Servers
and select smb://myMachine.myDomaine/myShare
everything goes well (Credential are stored in the keychain)

THEN:
OS: updated to 10.6
Tried the same thing, but was not able anymore to connect to my server (with the same errors as you guys).
Error displayed in the console:
09.09.09 16:03:35 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent[2028] * process 2028 exceeded 500 log message per second limit - remaining messages this second discarded *

So I tried first to delete the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkConfig.plist
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>NetworkingConfigured</key>
<integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

And then I tried again. In the console I had next the error:
09.09.09 16:06:01 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent[2028] smb_mount: mount failed to myServer/myShare : syserr = Broken pipe

So I opened my terminal and did:
sbolay@sbolay:/$ ps -A | grep NetAuth
2028 ?? 0:11.22 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent
11282 ttys000 0:00.00 grep NetAuth
sbolay@sbolay:/System/Library/CoreServices$ kill -9 2028

After killing the NetAuthAgent application, everything works well again:
- keychain credentials works also well without modifying them.
- Also after a reboot, everything is ok.

Finally I tried the same workaround on another computer having the same trouble (except I did not deleted the plist file) and everything works fine also.

Best,
Sylvain

That almost makes sense, but i don't completely follow your Terminal usage. "sbolay" looks like a username. Could you provide a clearer description of what you did so that i can try the same?

Thanks.

Hi,

removing /Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkConfig.plist

does not work for me.

Server is Samba 3.0.28-0.5

Still says account/password is wrong

regards,

Toni

lucky_luc wrote:
That almost makes sense, but i don't completely follow your Terminal usage. "sbolay" looks like a username. Could you provide a clearer description of what you did so that i can try the same?

Thanks.

Hello,

In the Terminal.app application (you can find it with spotlight or go in Applications->Utilities) just execute the command:
ps -A | grep NetAuth

which will show a line like:
2028 ?? 0:11.22 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent

Then you have to kill the process by executing the command:
kill -9 2028

where 2028 is the running process showed with the first command. This value will probably not be the same for you

Am I clear enough?

Best,
Sylvain

P.S. in fact the "sbolay@sbolay:/" is my terminal title set in the .bashrc file found in each home directory.

Hi Sylvain,

i am a senior sysadmin.

Maybe killal -9 NetAuth is what is suited best for what you want.

But again: It did -not- work for me. It just kills the login window.

I just checked the new Snow leopard edition of cocktail.

There under filesharing there is an entry which says: Allow sending password in clear text.
Maybe this is useful. I will try tomorrow,

kind regards,

Toni

The solution is 10.6.1 !!!
It solves the SMB problem. Cool!

No, unfortunately same problem with 10.6.1...

Hi,

OSX 10.6.1 does not solve the smb problem.

Enabling cleartext password in cocktail sle edition does not solve the problem,

kind regards,

Toni