SMB file sharing to SBS 2011 broken?

Hello fellow sufferers. Anybody have an update on this yet?

Our problem is connecting to W2003 server. Some windows shares show in but not others but can connect directly with smb://servername/sharename.

Brand new Mountain Lion MB 's straight out of the box.

Rgds

David.

We have been having this issue since Snow Leopard; however, at that point in time it was with the username and password log in. Now it's to the point of mounting specific shares rather than the server in general. To mount our server shares for SMB you have to add the share folder's name when you connect to the server.

smb://000.000.0.000/sharename

Once the login window appears you need to enter the username and password as follows:

username 000.000.0.000\username

password password

The bad part is that even if you click on the KeyChain to remember this, it will not, you have to do this anytime you have to mount an SMB share, which for us is first thing in the morning when we start our computers. The login has been a headache for quite some time and now Apple has added another layer of annoyance with how you specify accessing your SMB shares. Fortunately it is just a pain for me when I initially setup a computer or a new share. This is the main reason I went with a Mac Server; however, this is the real world and our entire automation system is Windows based so there is no avoiding it, just embracing the horror of the fued started by Steve and Bill.

Do any of you have DFS shares enabled on your servers?

As promised, I worked with Apple Ent. support and after packet captures we saw that the issue occurs due to Mountain Lion only setting a MaxDataCount of 2084 bytes where as Lion used 16,644 bytes. If the list of shares contains more then 2084 bytes of data is causes the enumeration to fail subsequently causing the SMB connection to fail. If you specify the direct SMB url path then it will bypass the enumeration of the share list and connect.

This is why it may work in some environments where the server you are connecting to has maybe only a few shares (don't forget about the hidden '$' shares as well!) and not others where there are more than a handful of shares.

Some of the other issues in this thread were unrelated, but based on the OP's problem and the few others who had the same, this is the why. Apple confirmed the problem will be fixed in 10.8.1. I will be testing against a developer build shortly, but for now, if this is crucial to your deployment's success I would just hold off a little bit until 10.8.1 goes live, which I cannot imagine is too far off.

Hope that helps!

Perfect, thank you.

Well 10.8.1 is out and I instaled it and still same problem. Any thoughts.

No it isn't. It works perfectly on 10.8.1. Case closed. 🙂

Would you mind explaning how you got it to work. Thanks so much

Sure. I installed 10.8.1 and it worked.

🙂

Now, seriously... how are you testing this? Are you browsing through the Finder's sidebar "Shared" section? Are you using cmd+K? Are you still getting "/" as the only available share?

Yup, I updated to 10.8.1 and it works now. When i click on the sidebar, and then the server, it shows me a list of available shares.

I use the go tab and then click network. I can see the server that I want to connect to. When it asks for the user name and password I enter it in and the box just shakes.😠

downloaded 10.8.1 and working perfectly as normal, so is my broken email now working,

well done apple, taken a while but got there in the end 😀

Ah, that's a different issue. You're talking about an authentication problem.

So, is your Mac bound to AD? Are you logged on with an AD user account?

Sorry but what does bound to AD mean. I am using the AD user account to access my server. On my mac I only have 1 user account dont know if that helps you.

How are you specifying the username? I suspect your Mac is not bound to AD, so you should type the username as "domain\username". Have you tried that?