Mac OS Catalina connecting to smb

Had a MAC Mini setup with a windows home server to connect files and music. My iTunes had stored all the files/music on whs. Ever since upgrading to Catalina it hasn't work.


Anyone find a fix to this problem?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Oct 20, 2019 9:57 PM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2019 7:42 AM

I'm not sure that is what the OP was needing. The letters SMB were in their question.


What might assist is to go to Finder, knowing the IP of your server you want to connect to, and to browse for it, connecting directly. The screenshot is an example. While connecting by server name may work, IP is more certain, the more so if you have allocated it a fixed IP


It feels as if these has been some sort of change with SMB between Mojave and Catalina, but no-one will yet say for sure


I apologise if I have misinterpreted your problem


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Oct 27, 2019 7:42 AM in response to brenden dv

I'm not sure that is what the OP was needing. The letters SMB were in their question.


What might assist is to go to Finder, knowing the IP of your server you want to connect to, and to browse for it, connecting directly. The screenshot is an example. While connecting by server name may work, IP is more certain, the more so if you have allocated it a fixed IP


It feels as if these has been some sort of change with SMB between Mojave and Catalina, but no-one will yet say for sure


I apologise if I have misinterpreted your problem


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Oct 27, 2019 8:28 AM in response to ksaro1

ksaro1 wrote:

This is extensively discussed in the thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250714129

Grateful for that. I've read it with interest. It appears not necessarily limited to SMB 1. See my own screenshot after running smbutil statshares -a



The server appears twice, though



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Oct 27, 2019 7:33 AM in response to dalis69

Hello dalis69,


I see that you have question about your music and how to locate it after updating to macOS Catalina. I'd be happy to provide you with some information to help.


There have been some changes with iTunes with the new macOS Catalina update. Check out the following article that has the answers to your questions about what happened to iTunes after updating to macOS Catalina.


What happened to iTunes?


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