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ghabuzomeu Author

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Lost access to our CIFS Server with Lion

Hi,

We use a ZFS based NexentaStor (v3.5) Server at the office as our file server. I have upgraded one of our machines to Mac OS X Lion for testing and that machine is now unable to connect to our shared volumes through CIFS.

It seems that the authentication process fails and that Mac OS X Lion is unable to read the correct user rights from the shares (although it can see the server and the mount points). so the share shows on the finder but with a "no entry" sign.

On a side note, connections to Windows 2003 Server are somewhat OK. If i use the connect to server menu (applekey - K) but problematic from the finder shares list...

We don't use a domain configuration but only a workgroup setup

I have seen that many other users have issues with CIFS Shares. Any help on that subject would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 3:43 AM

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Jun 12, 2012 1:05 AM in response to ghabuzomeu

Not sure if my situation is exactly relevant to this thread ... but maybe so ... I recently encountered a "Permission denied." every time I tried to write a CIFS mounted Windows (2k8 server) share. Access was fine, files were readable and directories were traversable but writing was not allowed, always getting the "Permission denied" error. Using Get Info showed permissions on the file as read/write. To make the long story (many weeks) short I discovered that when I used the original Windows share name, i.e. "c$", in Finders's Connect to Server feature rather than the more convenient alias: "WorkDisk", file writing worked again. I would note that on Ubuntu, mounting the shares using the alias names works just fine, so I'm conjecturing that this is a Mac OS X bug and have filed a support issue to Apple to that effect.

Hope this helps somebody out there.

Lost access to our CIFS Server with Lion