NAS Access in Catalina issues

A fix that seems to constantly make things start working (temporarily, until it breaks again of course) for me is to run this command from the terminal / shell prompt:

sudo killall NetAuthSysAgent

Many of us have been having SMB stability proble\ms for ages, and it's extremely frustrating. SMB file share access is a major part of most professional environments, and for Apple to have issues with it for years is just an embarrassment. If Apple can't write a functioning SMB client - and it's quite clear and obvious at this point that they lack that competence - they should just integrate SAMBA and be done with it.

It's not just NAS devices. Windows Server (2012, 2016, and 2019) shares are problematic as well. This is a joke. Get your act together, Apple.

Some positive feedback because for me the problem is fixed. Previously nothing worked and the NAS was basically not usable and Finder crashed every time I tried a connection. Also tried various workarounds from this forum but nothing was even close to stable.

Now with the latest upgrade from Catalina to version 10.15.6 and a QNAP TS-473 with firmware version QTS 4.4.3 onwards everything works like a charm. Like it did previously in Mojave.

I'm sad to hear others are still struggling.

For me it is working fine too.

The only problem I have is with Pages and Numbers. I can create a new document and save it to the network share. However, when I update the document I can't save it anymore (error "File can not be saved" or something). I used to have this problem last year, but it was solved to save as a single file. Alas this isn't working anymore. It make it impossible to work on a network share from Pages or Numbers.

All other programs I have (Word, Excel, Lightroom, PDF Expert, etc..) are working fine. So I assume it is a problem with Pages and Numbers itself.

I'm on the latest version of Catalina 10.15.7 and my 2014 Mac Mini still crashes when I access my Synology NAS. Oddly, my end of life 2012 Mac Mini, also running Catalina 10.15.7 has no issues, let alone crashes, accessing the same Synology NAS. When I say end of life, the 2012 Mini will not be supported for Big Sur. I'd rather have the Mac Mini that will be supported going forward work with the NAS.

Yeah, I am getting out of the Apple ecosystem. Way too much out of the user's control. The "just works" moniker seems to apply to Windows more and more. It's laughable how many workarounds I've had to set up (auto mounter, Finder add-ons, spaces add-ons, etc.), and soon those will probably no longer be "allowed" to work (already have to disable "SIP" just to run most of those add-ons nowadays!).

To boot, the rounded corner nature of everything gets old after a while... it just feels like all my windows waste space due to that design, vs. having normal right angle corners. And this goes for my iPad Pro and my iPhone too - all the curves (and the iPhone cutout) - they look pretty, but ultimately, it gets obvious it needs more margins all around to have everything curved.

My one other grievance - Apple barely has caught up with SMB as being the preferred standard, yet still no multi-channel (if that's the right name) transfer! How can this be the choice of "pros" if the limit is 10 Gbps (per user/per file)? When in Windows, you can aggregate links and actually get 20 Gbps (or even 30 or 40 I presume if you have enough ports) to your NAS.

Last month I wrote that Numbers and Pages were not working on a SMB share, while all my other programs had no problem.

It turns out it has something to do with a share added as a favourite in Finder (the solution to make SMB work in previous versions of Catalina). When I save from Numbers or Pages to a SMB share which isn't in favourites it works fine.

I have found that connecting via SMB using the IP address, not the NAS name to be the most reliable. It requires fixed IP for your NAS. That problem (I had it too) then went away for me

Hello Cemento,

Is the workaround you described in this post (on 9 februari 2020) still working?

I agree.

The only solution that still seems to be working is descibed bij Cemento in this post.

I asked him a few days ago (see here) and it is working since a few months.

I do not know what made you suspect Norton.

We do not use Norton but same issue wth tm.

Please see this thread here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251642388?answerId=253219396022#253219396022

Do you mean update from 10.15.5 to 10.15.6 or Big Sur (public beta) ?

Please see this thread here :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251642388?answerId=253219396022#253219396022

@lexvo, this solution does not work for me, as the share appeared with a question mark:

Yes, works. But still the "simple" connection via sidebar (probably "bonjour") does not work. After double clicking the message appears that the volume cannot be found.

Consider ensuring that your NAS transmits the bonjour credentials under whichever you choose of AFP or SMB

(Ignore, this was a repost of the previous message which I though had been lost.)