SMB file sharing to SBS 2011 broken?

Well hope they will fix it real soon as I'm not recommending an upgrade to Mountain Lion in the company before the issues has been fixed!

Opened an enterprise support ticket. I will post updates as I get them.

Thank you. Please keep us posted. Dont forget about those of us who are still trapped on the island.

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Same here :

Windows server 2008 R2

Mountain Lion

smb://ServerName/ - not working

smb://ServerName/ShareName - working

Delaying my upgrade project

Having exactly same problem.

question is, has everyone done a clean install or a upgrade via App Store. Our IT guy has ML on his Macbook and can connect to his server no problem.

so its probably something to do with the migration and old files and new files not talking to each other, I am no boffin, but I am sure there are one you guys that are quite the whizz when it comes to figuring out why the finder cannot see the Windows Server through Finder, yet ForkLift can.

I have tried both a clean install of Mountain Lion on a blank hard drive as well as an in-place upgrade from 10.7.4 Lion. Both yield the same results regarding SMB file servers:

smb://server/ = fail

smb://server/share = success

I still maintain that it is related to AD/OD/Kerberos. Just a hunch.

The odd part of this is that the problem seems to be with MS Server 2008 only. We have not seen the problem when connecting to our older Server 2003 (that do not run Mac support) or Win7 shares at my company.

Apple has been monitoring this thread and has contacted multiple people for info, etc., so "help is on the way". The big question is when it will arrive.

I suspect this is getting a fair amount of attention, so hopefully the cure will arrive sooner than later.

Same for me. Sharing from Win7 not working.

smb://win7can/ = borked

smb://win7can/share = winning

Have tried clean install of ML. No change. Reverted to Lion, worked.

Hallo - same in my case. I am not so much in trouble like other posters, but it would needed to have an Update by Apple quickly.

By the way, besides other complains by users, that is really an issue. It is a core function of operating system to provide the functionality and Apple should have been tested that during their SQ. My opinion about that issue.

Ronald

This is another "me, too". I have 30hrs into trying to solve this online with no success. I have an Apple Support call scheduled for 08/07/2012 - 11:00AM EDT but I'm not that hopeful based on experiences of others in this thread.

Maybe a compact re-statement will help others:

My LAN has an iMac ML, a Win7 machine and and XP machine.

Clean install of OS X 10.8 ML after a failed upgrade from 10.7.4. Since the successful install/rebuild of ML, I cannot "see" via finder any of the shares on the Win7 machine on the LAN. The Win7 machine can see into the iMac and the XP machine, and the iMac can still see into the XP machine on the LAN. Using Finder/Go/Connect to Server I can see into the shares on the Win7 machine just fine -- but that doesn't help in Finder. I absolutely need this solved (as do we all).

I'd go back to Lion (where all this worked perfectly) if I could...

Watching, waiting, praying here...

If I learn anything on the Apple Support call in the AM, I'll post.

Chaz

I was on the phone for several hours with very helpful Apple Suport advisors. Unfortunately, neither the first level or senior level reps had heard of this problem. I'm assured it's escalated to the "engineers" and I'll have report w/i four working days. That's not to say I'll have a solution then.

I'm convinced this problem exists for every ML Lan with at least one Win7 machine on it; they must have had hundreds if not thousands of inquiries about this. If it doesn't affect every such LAN, there must be something about all of ours on this thread that is common.

Frustrated but hopeful...

Chaz

"I'm convinced this problem exists for every ML Lan with at least one Win7 machine on it..."

No Win 7 factor here.

"...there must be something about all of ours on this thread that is common."

Yes. Mountain Lion and SMB network volumes.

I don't have much to add except "ditto."

smb://server/ = Error!

smb://server/share = Success!

Sometimes I can get it to show a share named "\", just like the original poster.

Here is the error from the console:

Aug 19 23:49:35 KuroNeko.local NetAuthSysAgent[7923]: NAHSelectionAcquireCredential The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.NetworkAuthenticationHelper error -1765328228 - acquire_kerberos failed kvitale@168.1.9: -1765328228 - unable to reach any KDC in realm 168.1.9)

Aug 19 23:49:35 KuroNeko.local NetAuthSysAgent[7923]: NAHSelectionAcquireCredential The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.NetworkAuthenticationHelper error -1765328228 - acquire_kerberos failed kvitale@LOCAL: -1765328228 - unable to reach any KDC in realm LOCAL)

Kerberos error maybe? And why is the realm only 3/4's of an IP address? Is that normal? and my username is also only 3/4's of an IP address. It's missing the first octet (192).

kjvictory:

I think Kerberos requires FQDNs and does not work with IP addresses. Thus kvitale@168.1.9 would most likely be invalid.

Maybe, I don't really know if it does or doesn't. But shouldn't the log show kvitale@192.168.1.9? BTW, that was me trying to see if an IP would work, instead of kvitale@domain.com...