Mounting smb shares after upgrade to Catalina not working

I have a NAS storage device connected to my router on my internal network which is protected by a username & password. Prior to the upgrade to Catalina my 2016 15" Macbook Pro had no issues connecting to these shares using smb://routername/share. After the upgrade to catalina I can no longer connect to the network shares. It keeps asking me for my username & password, and no matter what I enter the dialog box keeps coming back. When I try on the command line using "mount_smbfs //username:password@routername/share mountpoint" I keep getting the error message "mount_smbfs: server rejected the connection: Authentication error". If I go into the router and remove the credentials from the shares, then the mount works fine. I know the credentials are correct (I reset them in the router).


I've also re-enabled NetBIOS as described in this article (https://medium.com/@gobinathm/how-to-access-smb-printer-shares-in-macos-catalina-10-15-17ea91d2c10b) but that did not help.

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Posted on Oct 8, 2019 6:12 AM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2019 4:11 AM

Very helpful! Thank you! I also have a couple of WDSHARESPACE NAS devices. I went into each NAS device and saw that AFP was enabled. Then I went to 'Go', from the MacOS Finder menu bar, selected 'Connect to Server', and entered in the string that you listed in your reply below. I entered the username and password, and it worked perfectly!


The link at the bottom was also a good overview of AFP, SMB, etc. that provide some simple explanation.


afp://username@<NAS ip address>/sharefoldername


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204445

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Oct 8, 2019 7:43 AM in response to edeandrea

@eandrea - I tested changing the protocol setting, and as expected, when I set it to 1 I no longer could 'see' the other SMB share. When I removed it, the share re-appeared. However, on both settings I still couldn't access the NAS share.


I have a sneaking suspicion that there is some issue with SMB version 1.0 access. And I would bet your NAS server uses SMB 1.0 as well.

Oct 8, 2019 6:44 AM in response to edeandrea

I too have the same issue. I also have a Windows 10 PC with SMB sharing enabled on my home network. I can access the Windows 10 SMB shares from my Mac, but not the router's NAS share. I do know from experience with the Windows 10 PC accessing the NAS share, that SMB version 1.0 access has to be enabled from the client in order to work with my NAS share, which I think uses plain-text passwords, which is not enabled by default in the /etc/nsmb.conf file. I've enabled this (minauth=none), but I still can't access the NAS SMB share. Is there another setting somewhere I'm missing?

Oct 15, 2019 4:54 AM in response to YichenLiu

Thank you. I am not well versed in computer speak but your GO Connect to Server does seem to work for me.


I have a Western Digital RAID (PR2100) NAS connected to my router. I use it primarily for my photos and for Time machine backups. Since Catalina it has continued to work mostly fine BUT it sort of forgets the connection after a while. So after a reboot all works fine but if i go away for a while (hour or more) I start seeing messages that time machine backup failed and I can't see the details of shares in finder, eg I see this.... I still do but after doing your GO trick it is backing up and i can see photos ... previously my only fix was to reboot

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