Problems losing SMB shares to a Windows machine when writing data from Mac
My set up consists of an 2010 iMac and recent MacBook AIr, and a Windows Laptop which has a raid array connected to it.
The iMac is connected via wired network to the Windows Machine, and the MacBook Air is wireless.
My issue is that when I try copying files from the Mac to a Windows SMB share, after copying an indeterminate amount of data, the Mac suddenly loses the connection to the SMB share. To make matters worse, the ONLY way of reconnecting is to reboot the Windows machine. And what's interesting, is that once I lose the connection on one of the Macs, neither will connect without a Windows reboot, suggesting that some Windows service has failed or stopped.
I have researched this, and it sounds like an issue others have been having but I can't find a solution that works.
By the way, the problem is the same whether I connect to the SMB share by server name or by the IP address.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
The iMac is connected via wired network to the Windows Machine, and the MacBook Air is wireless.
My issue is that when I try copying files from the Mac to a Windows SMB share, after copying an indeterminate amount of data, the Mac suddenly loses the connection to the SMB share. To make matters worse, the ONLY way of reconnecting is to reboot the Windows machine. And what's interesting, is that once I lose the connection on one of the Macs, neither will connect without a Windows reboot, suggesting that some Windows service has failed or stopped.
I have researched this, and it sounds like an issue others have been having but I can't find a solution that works.
By the way, the problem is the same whether I connect to the SMB share by server name or by the IP address.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
Mac OS X (10.6.6), iMac