Mounting smb shares after upgrade to Catalina not working

Hear hear

Thanks!

Hello PinVino, do you have a link to the free app File Explorer?

I can't find it?

Map the initial window link to your desktop, then add the NAS.

Thanks for your quick reply 👍

I figured it out! Here is the solution - https://www.techarp.com/software/macos-catalina-nas-failure/

That's great you found a working solution.

Unfortunately my Synology CS407 NAS only supports SMB1 so in my case cifs://... works.

enable it in your NAS, I'm using an old WDSHARESPACE and it's in NAS network setting, what's your NAS model?

In compare to smb1 and CIFS, I feel my READ/WRITE speed is better now also.

I know, it's temporal solution till Apple solve the problem.

after enabling AFP in NAS. you can access it via finder:

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

I have a Billion Bipac 8800AXL R2 wifi modem/router with a USB attached HDD. The Bipac only supports SMB v1 with authentication. There is no alternative way to share the HDD from this device. Therefore, if the Mac OS X doesn't support SMB v1 with authentication any more, then this NAS storage is no longer accessible from my Mac now that I've upgraded to Catalina.

Any feedback from Apple ? I just got this from their online chat support so not helpful at all:

"I see what you mean. In this case we would want to reach out to the manufacturer of that device to see if they are aware of the issue or know of a resolution. They may be working to correct it now or already have some steps in place to correct the issue.

Sometimes third party devices will have issues when a new macOS is released, but they are usually pretty good about coming out with updates to correct it or will have a work around in the meantime."

My NAS is a Buffalo LS-WTGLF92

Authentication set for: Delegate Authority to LinkStation

This is a monumental **** up from Apple. It's not just smb shares from what I am hearing. Photoshop and other Adobe errors too.

My situation is that my MacBook can't access any of my network files/folders - NAS drive, 4 PC's - but they can all access the MacBook shared folders.

As most of my required files are on the NAS for my work as a freelance writer, I've lost a day and near on a grand because of this. I feel like billing Apple for the lost time.

I can't even use the PC's for the work as they are set to do different tasks and don't have the relevant software to run the files I need on NAS.

Surely Beta testing should have pulled these problems out, but I guess they were just in a rush to get it out there without doing their jobs properly.

Well done Apple

I had the SMB connection issue to my USB storage that was attached, and shared from, a Billion Bipac 8800AXL R2 modem/router. This share was available as a Network share on my iMac when it was running Mojave. After I upgraded to Catalina, and enabled Netbios support, it was not accessible.

I then purchased a Raspberry Pi 4 and attached my USB storage to it and enabled SMB sharing on the Pi. Now, both guest and user access via my iMac works. This implies to me that the issue is with Catalina not supporting the same SMB server configurations, versions, etc. as Mojave does.

FWIW - my SMB configuration on the Pi is as follows :

root@raspberrypi:~# smbstatus -d 4 -v

using configfile = /etc/samba/smb.conf

lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters

Initialising global parameters

rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)

Processing section "[global]"

doing parameter workgroup = WORKGROUP

doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

doing parameter max log size = 1000

doing parameter logging = file

doing parameter panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

doing parameter server role = standalone server

doing parameter obey pam restrictions = yes

doing parameter unix password sync = yes

doing parameter passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

doing parameter passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

doing parameter pam password change = yes

doing parameter map to guest = bad user

doing parameter usershare allow guests = yes

pm_process() returned Yes

Registered MSG_REQ_POOL_USAGE

Registered MSG_REQ_DMALLOC_MARK and LOG_CHANGED

lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters

Initialising global parameters

rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)

Processing section "[global]"

doing parameter workgroup = WORKGROUP

doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

doing parameter max log size = 1000

doing parameter logging = file

doing parameter panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

doing parameter server role = standalone server

doing parameter obey pam restrictions = yes

doing parameter unix password sync = yes

doing parameter passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

doing parameter passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

doing parameter pam password change = yes

doing parameter map to guest = bad user

doing parameter usershare allow guests = yes

pm_process() returned Yes

Samba version 4.9.5-Debian

PID     Username     Group        Machine                                   Protocol Version  Encryption           Signing              

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

990     nobody       nogroup      192.168.1.100 (ipv4:192.168.1.100:55921)  SMB3_02           -                    -                    

Service      pid     Machine       Connected at                     Encryption   Signing     

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PiDisk       990     192.168.1.100 Thu Oct 17 10:20:17 AM 2019 BST  -            -           

Locked files:

Pid          Uid        DenyMode   Access      R/W        Oplock           SharePath   Name   Time

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

990          65534      DENY_NONE  0x100081    RDONLY     NONE             /media/pi   External HDD/amr   Thu Oct 17 10:25:58 2019

990          65534      DENY_NONE  0x100081    RDONLY     NONE             /media/pi   External HDD/amr   Fri Oct 18 10:12:46 2019

990          65534      DENY_NONE  0x100081    RDONLY     NONE             /media/pi   .   Thu Oct 17 10:25:30 2019

990          65534      DENY_NONE  0x100081    RDONLY     NONE             /media/pi   External HDD   Thu Oct 17 10:25:53 2019

990          65534      DENY_NONE  0x100081    RDONLY     NONE             /media/pi   External HDD   Fri Oct 18 10:12:44 2019

That's not working for me. Apple screwed up big time once more. I can connect via Go using ftp://*server* but that way i can't add, move, delete files... ********* of files suddenly are showing empty as well via ftp connection... 0 files my asz. Fix it @Apple