SMB Share

SMB in 10.7.1 is still broke

I have installed 10.7.1 and the problems still remain. I did some testing with my sofware accessing data using 3 different methods and 2 different accounts, standards and admin. From windows I can access data on 10.6.6, as well as an external drive with no problems.

With Lion the problems remain, irratic loggin request, some times a can see data other times I can't. CAD software always fails to access config files from Lion but always works with snow leopard.

You're not alone. I have been having so many issues sharing files to a Windows machine (used for work) I've just given up until the issues are resolved (if ever).

System worked flawlessly in Snow Leopard.

i too am having this problem.

under snow leopard, i had a whole bunch of smb shares defined. all accessed without issue (home network, so used "everyone" permissions on mac, then other machines had no issues connecting).

have an xbmc install, with all sources pointed to these locations. it was configured using the "zeroconf" browsing option inside xbmc's new source setup (this is running Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS)

and then lion happened...

same shares.

xbmc can still see the imac as a zeroconf location. but unable to browse and it doesnt prompt for credentials.

i have got over my rage and issues with this, as i needed to migrate this data to a new network-based solution anyway. which i now have in place... however, i would like a vm running windows server 2008 r2 to be able to use smb to access some locations on the mac so files can be shared.

any method used to access this fails to work currently.

windows explorer > map network drive. it prompts for credentials, but never accepts anything. tried plain "username", also tried "hostname\username", "ipaddress\username", "workgroupofmac\username". nothing works.

command prompt > "net use" commands with various switches, with the same above username combinations.

is there any difference with windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2?

how are some people managing to get smb shares on os x lion limping into life? and most others cant??

at top of this discussion is a link title "Branched to new discussion", but when i click that link, i am unauthorised. is this thread still even active? should i be able to get to this new discussion? is it a private thing for internal apple people demonstrating they are using the information provided here...?

On the Lion side try turning off SMB shares then back on again. Then try to map your network drive or browse the networks from the windows side. I must toggle SMB shares every time I reboot the Lion "server".

This couldnt be more accurate as I stated in put Samba Back Thread. The older version of Samba under a previous release of the GPL not v3 would be far better.

Some of you may be having the same problem we did, posted on this forum:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/246156-mapped-network-dri ve-issue-lion.html#post1320789

I wonder how muCommander is communicating to the servers. I'm able to connect to SMB shares with mu that I cannot with the Finder. What's the difference? This is maddening!

Well you know that the Apple holes have known about this since at least 10.5 and have of course ignored the issue, because they know better than everyone else and we should be using AFP anyway.

Its our fault for not having a cool 100% mac environment.

I'm once more googling for a proper fix to this as today my SMB shares decided to mount but not interact so I have wasted a whole day trying to fix this and failed and every person in th eoffice on their cool iMacs had a nice day browsing the internet because they couldn't access any drawings.

Thank you Apple for being sooooo cool.

As I said, complete Apple Holes...

Hi,

JRansomed wrote:

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As best as I can tell, when we try to map a SMB or CIFS share from the GUI, it appears to send the username and password of the logged in user. It appears to completely ignore any username you add to the url.

I can confirm your findings. I am head of IT in a medium size enterprise. I am using a this year's MacBook Pro myself that runs 10.7.2. In the log files of our Windows 2008 R2 file server I can see the Mac logging in as user "xyz" although I typped "smb://domain;abc@server.example/home/abc" Thus, the Finder just happily ignores whatever username I provide.

However, this is not the general case. Some other file shares that are at "server.example/groups/IT" can be reached without any problems. Using muCommander - as someone else suggested - works too. Furthermore, the good old terminal works also.

Definitely the Finder or the dialogue to enter the credentials necessary for accessing a server is broken.

But there is also a good story about 10.7. With 10.6 I sometimes had system crashes when unmounting an SMB share. With Lion that hasn't happened so far. If the connection to a server is broken, it might take long until the share is unmounted. But at least the system doesn't crash anymore …

One thing more …

It must be a problem of the Finder. In terminal, I typed

mount_smbfs "//domain;abc@server.example/home/abc/" /Users/CEH/servershare/

That worked. Then, I created an Alias of the fileshare and unmounted it. When I double click the Alias, again it starts using "xyz" as username instead of "abc."

Using vi (or less) I see that the Alias file contains the right command (abc@server etc.). But no matter what I try, the Finder won't use "abc" and continues to use my local Mac username (xyz) to connect to the server :-(

Could you use an Apple Script instead of an Alias?

It would be so much easier if Apple just got the finger out!!

Hi,

Thanks for your message.

Hibernian56 wrote:

Could you use an Apple Script instead of an Alias?

Yes, that would be possible. But "Terminal.app" and I are good friends anyway ;-) So, I don't mind to type the necessary mount commands or to have them in a bash script.

Hibernian56 wrote:

It would be so much easier if Apple just got the finger out!!

What astonishes me is the fact that the Finder sends my Mac's local login name instead of the username that I provide in the "Connect to Server" dialogue. The Finder happily ignores whatever I provide as a username. That's the real core of the problem. The rest (mounting, SMB file access etc.) works. It's just the Finder that doesn't care about a user's input.

Best regards!

Hi,

the fault must be on Mac OS's side. I am working in a "heavy Windows" company. Most of the Macs belong to the marketing department. However, there are a few colleagues that use their private Mac too. One of this guys observes the exactely same problem like me. I never touched his machine, haven't even seen it. All I know is that he runs 10.7.2 like me …

So this machine also cannot access the Windows fileserver through the Finder. Whenever he tries to connect to

smb://domain;bcd@server.example/home/bcd/

it fails. It works only from the command line. Like mine, his Mac username (blabla) is different from his Windows username (bcd). But the Finder insists on using the Mac username (blabla) even when the Windows username is provided to the Finder.

I hope that Apple resolves this issue soon.

Best regards

I have had success by modifying the SMB server prefs. Why Apple took this out of the GUI in Server app I don't know. But the plist files tell all.

This is working for two different setups so far.

1) Lion Server SMB sharing where the server is an Open Directory Replica of a Lion Server Open Directory Master

2) Lion Server SMB sharing where this Lion server is merely bound to a Snow Leopard Server's Open Directory Master

The smb server prefs file is located at:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server

I opened it up in TextWrangler (with Command Line Tools installed) and added the following (which were not already there):

<key>AllowKerberosAuth</key>

<true/>

<key>AllowNTLM2Auth</key>

<true/>

<key>KerberosRealm</key>

<string>USETHEEXACTSAMESTRINGASTHELOCALKERBEROSREALM</string>

<key>Workgroup</key>

<string>Workgroup</string>

You can do it in command line if you like using methods similar to what is stated in Apple Tech Note: HT5038

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5038

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server AllowKerberosAuth -bool YES

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server AllowNTLM2Auth -bool YES

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server KerberosRealm -string USETHEEXACTSAMESTRINGASTHELOCALKERBEROSREALM

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server Workgroup -string Workgroup

When you have completed the changes just stop the FileSharing in Server app and then start it up again.

Presto. Windows XP and Windows 7 can log in:

\\ServerName\ShareName

name: UserName or ODMASTERNAME\UserName (With Lion 10.7.2 you should only need the UserName

password: password

Hi Alex,

I wish you a Happy New Year. Thanks for your help. I appreciate your message. However, my problem is exactely reverse. I am using a Macintosh (10.7.2) as a client to ask a Windows 2008 server. The Mac isn't running as server.

I am currently working with Apple on the issue that the Finder in 10.7.2 changes the username that I would like to use to access the Windows server.

Best regards!