smb shares on servers inaccessible after mountain lion upgrade?

I confirm.

I slightly reduced the name on the shares, and it was enough to have normal behaviour on smb.

Still, Apple should solve this, it's a ridiculous bug.

Now i just need to figure out how to have the WHS 2011 Connector application to work.

problem reproducable in my environment so.

\\server.domain.local => FAIL

\\server.domain.local\share => WORKS

@APPLE: Please solve the bug!

I'm having the same problem

but no solution yet

In my case it has only happened to MacBook Pro's from start 2010

I'm having a similar problem after the upgrade to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. I used to be able to access the shares on my windows home server via "finder" or Go Connect to server (SMB://ip_address/share) but when I put in the valid name and password for the windows home server - no joy; all I get is the login prompt "shakes" itself... I know the username and password are valid as I can establish a remote desktop connection and I can also access the home server's https interface using the same account/username???

What gives MAC?

i can confirm it.

\\server.domain.local => FAIL

\\server.domain.local\share => WORKS

"Now i just need to figure out how to have the WHS 2011 Connector application to work."

Has anyone figured out how to get the connector to work - mine just hangs

I guess we will need to see updates from both Apple and MS to see the connector working again.

I have a similar problem (google brought me here) but with WebDAV. Right after installing OSX ML It behaves strangely. Some shares no longer work while others work with interruptions.

I also seem to be having the same "/" issue.

If I connect to smb://server/ it will not connect.

If I connect to smb://server/share/ it works.

Once connected to a share, if I click on the server in the 'Shared' section of the Finder sidebar I get a single folder named '/'

I double checked what happened using Lion on my old MBP running Lion today and it worked fine, so I know that this not a problem with our Windows Server.

Hope this gets fixed as this is something we use to view all available shares on a server.

Try to shortten the name of the shares. For me it worked!

I'm having the same issue many are reporting upthread:

If I connect to smb://server/ it will not connect -- I get an error message when trying to connect over a VPN, and when I'm on the network I see "/" in the finder. Before the ML upgrade (running Lion) I used to get a list of shares.

If I connect to smb://server/share it works fine.

This isn't a big deal for me since there are only two shares on my network I ever use and its easy enough to connect to them directly. But it's still annoying (and was extremely irksome until I figured out the workaround).

It might be the exact same thing we're experiencing on two of our Macbook Pro's (bought in spring 2010 - and only those... Strange!?!). We have found a workaround to the stalling login-process (NetAuthAgent):

In the login popup try to click the "change password" button and then enter your password as both "old" and "new" (+confirm new offcourse). Then it should logs on instantly.

Please let me/us know if it works and provide model info about your affected Mac's.

PS - the "simple" solution with adding share names doesn't work for us.

Message was edited by: Marijnissen

It seems like such an easy fix. I have been looking everywhere for a preference or plist to increase the size of data accepted from the SMB server and I have been unable to locate it. I have also been checking the developer downloads section for any new updates available that fix this issue, but I have not seen any. Hopefully they can get it resolved soon.

I've contacted Mac support about this and they're working the issue. They've passed it up the engineering chain and I think they recognize there is a valid problem. We did some log capures and I've sent them back - I should here back from then in about four days or so (what they said).

Here's the email reply after our phone session: