Can't connect via SMB

Ok all done here. Thanks Apple, another two days of my life wasted fixing your problems.

Apple really are beginning to loose the run of themselves, they have lost focus of their customers, they are certainly not "thinking different" anymore, just thinking corporate.

I know this is off on a tangent, but it reinforces my point about their recent treatment of customers;

http://www.seattlerex.com/seattle-rex-vs-apple-the-verdict-is-in/

The interesting thing is, I have two of these macbook pro's, one with the screen removed sitting in an office connected to an LCD panel. They are still great machines let down by a crappy third party component. As I said, I had the same issue, dead screen on one of them, but after a fair bit of weekend diagnostics I realised it was not a fried video chip. The heat off the video chip had fried a unbranded MOSFET surface soldered BESIDE the chip. Only very close examination under magnification showed this. A high quality replacement cost me €0.55!!!

I replaced the chip, but unfortunately as with most modern tech, it uses multi layered PCB's it was beyond repair, the heat damage was in a layer I could not get at. In the end I managed to get it working by disconnecting the LCD panel completely (which was found but confusing a hardware check due to the fried chip, hence failing to boot up).

So as you can see, great hardware let down by a third party component. But at the end of the day I don't buy a laptop based on the brand of the MOSFET used do I?

I was truly hoping Rex won that thing. Apple's behaviour was apalling and should've been punished.

I see it's been closed now, sadly with just the minimum amount paid by Apple and not enough PR damage for this to affect them (I also did my bit sharing this story but I don't think it got the coverage it should've got).

Even if I've had nothing but excellent support every time I've had Apple fix my stuff I still think these cases should be publicized as loud and wide as possible.

I hope the class action suit goes through, too.

Incidentally, this is not "the new Apple". Stuff like this has happened since the Apple II and happens in all these corporations. It should not be allowed and the punishment should be big and swift but sadly it's not recent or exclusive of Apple. I suspect it comes with the territory of becoming a large corporation (as none seem immune).

True, once the "suits" move in we are all doomed. Its a simple case of profits come first. I think issues experienced by Apple in relation to the nVidia for example set in motion a mindset of "deny at all costs" driven by the legal section of the suits. This unfortunately is part and parcel of the corporate world.

Both of the laptop I mentioned experienced the "exploding battery" phenomenon, remember that? Apple refused to acknowledge the problem as the product was out of warranty. That is until I was on the phone one day to Apple support telling them that I intended to use my laptop wearing shorts exclusively, and any resulting injury would be their issue despite their claims the batteries were no longer covered. I got my battery replaced soon afterwards.

As I said though, in my opinion Apple make great hardware, possibly the best. Having "fixed" my better half's HP DV6000 laptop four or five times, the pure frustration in opening it with it's nearly 60 screws, all of different lenght's with lots of ribbon cables that are just the right size, I had huge respect for the people that assemble the HP but utter disgust at the persons involved in its design.

I ended up giving her my old reliable Macbook Pro. Overkill for Facebook, but that's life!! I know it should run for ever as the programs she will run won't punish it as much as I used to.

Anyway, hopefully Apple will begin to listen, just like they used to. I don't really think a class action solves anything, only the solicitors win in the end, I think they just need to shift their sights back to the existing loyal (for now) customer and not the solely new customer.

I've been having the same problem connecting to my work server. Oddly enough, the window view "hack" worked for me. I would never have guessed to even try viewing the folders in a different view, as I always use column view. All views work for me *except* column view. 😕 This is very silly.

Here's how I solved it.

Go to KeyChain Access --> Login --> Find the server name and delete the key chain

Next time you login in Finder, click Connect As and it will prompt you to type in the user name/password

Is there now a solution available for Samba 2?

I still can not connect an AMIGA to my Mac. I hate Apple for that.

Start now using FTP and FTP-Servers on each device until Apple will block again something...

I was having the same issue trying to connect as another username on a domain. I was finally able to connect using Connect to Server > smb://domain\username:password@server/sharename

ie. smb://contoso\bbrown:Pa$$word1 @ fshare01.contoso.com/ghost01$

Hey Eduardo...

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion on my iMac but left my MBP alone for now. I have a Gen1 AppleTV that I use as a streamer running XBMC. I had problems keeping the "connection" between the ATV and the USB Media drive that I use so I installed SMBup. The ATV is hardwired (no wifi) to my network directly to my Airport Extreme. So now I can connect but upon power down of the ATV and re-powering the next day it "loses" the connection to stream. The ATV shows all the XMBC menus and is fully functional otherwise, but while it lists a movie that is on the USB drive, it won't play it saying the movie is no longer available. I went back to SMBup, unlocked and stopped Samba, then re-started it, locked it... and my movies stream just fine until the next power down.

Is there something in the settings that can be changed to ensure that the iMac/USB Drive/ATV talk to each other all the time when they are booted? I am not a technician so please explain in layman's terms LOL.😕

Mike

Another guy experiencing a similar problem here- just managed to fix. The problem was on the server's end. After painfully going through the console to figure out what was wrong, we isolated the problem (and solution) to this-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;177078

As noted in last sentence LOL... I need a layman's explanation on why an Apple iMac combined with an Apple TV Gen1 won't stay "connected" for more than 24 hours. The link goes right to a Microsoft solution for a Windows PC running a MS operating system. I wouldn't have a clue how to find the iMac's registry and how to modify it.

Thanks for trying to help though. Maybe if you can explain it it would make sense.

Mike

This solution worked for me as well. I have a Netgear WNDR3700 with a Seagate 3TB hard drive connected to readyshare. I could not get this to connect using the GUI. I'm able to access it by mounting it using the terminal command as you indicated.

The share name in the router is "goflex"

I used the folloiwng command since i did not specify a username or password for the readyshare in the router.

I used "mkdir ~/Desktop/GOFLEX"

"mount -t smbfs //guest@readyshare/goflex ~/Desktop/GOFLEX"

Password was not required.

Reading the Windows comp to the domain - This worked for me:

I am using AD for authentication the os x server

I was able to connect using AD creds via AFP on my Mac + smb on the Mac but not from a Windows machine.

Removed then readied windows computers to the domain (2 restarts but it works!)

Cheers

Ben