Just upgraded to Lion and now I can't mount one of my three Buffalo Technology NAS drives, a Terastation 1TB drive that's pretty old. Neither Apple nor Buffalo Tech can help me.
I can connect to the drive via my browser and the IP address of the drive, but can't mount the drive on the desk top to access the files.
Any know how to solve this problem?
Thanks.
Hey Phatmann,
since I upgraded to Mountain Lion my Automator app does not work anymore.
If created an automator app with your instructions from above. This works really fine unter Lion. But since I upgraded to Mountain Lion it does not work anymore.
If I do the steps in a console by hand, I get the messeg "net: class is not implemented" after I send "sudo sysctl -w net.smb.fs.kern_deprecatePreXPServers=0".
Is your Automator app still working? Do you have any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks for any help.
I am not on Mountain Lion. However, I would get the same error if the SMB library was not loaded before making this call. That is why the script starts with an attempt to mount an SMB server even though it always fails -- this step loads the SMB library. If that first step is not working for you, you can try manually connecting to your Buffalo (and failing) before running the script.
The other possibility is that the library was renamed in Mountain Lion. I will look into that, too.
Its seems that Apple skipped the support of SMB 1.0 protocol totally in Mountain Lion. So it seems to be time to buy a new NAS or use again the free app MUCommander to access it.
You can try using SMBUp to restore SMB 1.0 to ML. But be sure to read the warnings, as some Finder functionality is lost. I have not tried it yet, as I am not on ML.
Ditto on Buffalo. My older TeraDrive no longer works with my new iMac. My newer Buffalo LinkStation (LS-QV4.OTL/R5 worked just ok initially. I just fixed it and maybe this will solve your problem too. My problem wasn't simply mounting the drive, but it was keeping the drive active consistently. Many times folders would disappear or access was denied. After changing and simplifying permissions on the LinkStation to no avail, I read in Apple Discussions about changing my network config to DHCP - Manual. This uses your router or ISP's configurations but it keeps your Mac's IP address static. Pick an address (typically 192.168.1.xxx) and all of my problems went away. I get consistent and lightening fast access now. Seems like the LinkStation was having to query and verify the IP address via DHCP before it allowed a data transfer. Now it just knows to trust the fixed address.
Can't mount my Buffalo Tech Terastation NAS drive.
