SMB file sharing to SBS 2011 broken?

This same problem is happening to me, too. The server is Windows Server 2008. I have another Mac that hasn't upgraded to Mountain Lion and it still shows the shares correctly.

This is the screen that appears when I browse to the server using "Share" through Finder:

Same here... everything else works in ML execpt smb shares! really need this fix as i use windows servers all the time at work.!

Yeah, me too. I do see some shares, but not as many as on Lion. Also the shares with special characters in them appear garbled.

Same problem here, but some of virtual servers on SBS 2008 are ok and i'm able to see the shares on them.

Same here guys!

In my case it's not an SBS, but a "normal" Windows Server 2008 R2. All workstations and other servers show their shares correctly, except for this one.

This particular server is the only one with the following roles:

• File Server
• Print Server
• WSUS Server

What are the roles assigned to the servers with which you're getting this issue? Maybe we can find a pattern here.

(The title of the original post should be changed to "Windows Server" instead of SBS, btw.)

File server & print server, but other virtual servers which are ok in my case, are also file servers. This is strange to me ...

Unfortunately, this one which is not working correctly is the most important one 🙂.

This is sad, because otherwise I find the SMB access much improved in comparison to Lion. Opening shares is much much faster, search now works on network folders (which was my main issue in Lion)... they just need to figure out what's causing this particular problem.

Did anyone of you try to connect via third party apps? Like Forklift and there manually set SMB connection?

Nope. Only the Finder here.

I'm trying from Forklift as a new SMB connection (smb://ServerName/ShareName) and it seems to be working. The problem is just in the Finder. After first connection from the Forklift is the Share also available from shortcut on the desktop.

Problem solved 🙂.

But if you do cmd+K in Finder and type "smb://ServerName/ShareName" it also works. The problem is browsing the full list of shares (i.e., Finder sidebar -> Shared -> All... -> ServerName) - that's when you get the error mentioned in the OP.

Oh i see.

Anyway this at least partly solved my problem, because i was unable to work with shared discs in my company at all. I didn't know that it is working thru cmd+K.

Well, it is here. Apparently the OP is also having problems through cmd+K, but that's something to do with the Kerberos authentication and therefore unrelated to the share browsing issue (imho).

By the way, regarding the mention of "Sharepoint" by the OP: that has nothing to do with Microsoft SharePoint (the collaboration platform), it's just the name given to shared folders by OS X.

Just so we're all on the same page here, this is the scenario where the issue occurs: