smb shares on servers inaccessible after mountain lion upgrade?

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smb shares on servers inaccessible after mountain lion upgrade?

From my mini, I access some windows servers for data storage, mapping SMB. For some reason, after upgrading to Mountain Lion, I can't get to those drives (shares) any longer.

They are accessible from other computers on the network, and they are even accessible from a virtual Win7 (Fusion) session on the mini. But in the main OS X mountain lion environment on the mini, they are not accessible through any of the usual means (Finder, etc).

I even installed ForkLift and ForkLift can't get to them either.

If I go to GO -> Connect to Server, I get "There was a problem connecting to the server "192.192.192.192". (Not the real IP.)

If I use the existing entry in the list of shares I get "Connection Failed".

Needless to say, noting on the server has changed, and Mountain Lion left the shortcuts/share names/startup connection commands (which used to open the server drives when the mini started up) in tact. But actually connecting and using docs on the server, no dice.

What am I missing?

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 7:25 AM

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Answer 1

Dr.Ripco

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Jul 27, 2012 7:46 AM in response to nathan_h

I haven't upgraded to ML yet, usually wait till the dust settles, but I have a suggestion.

Are the smb shares username/password protected?

If so, GO -> Connect to Server, try it this way for the server address...

smb://username:password@192.192.192.192

When I went from leopard to lion, this seemed to work on everything, the windows smb shares and solaris (unix) ones.

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nathan_h Author

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Jul 27, 2012 7:50 AM in response to Dr.Ripco

Thanks for the suggestion. Excellent idea! Unfortunately, it results in the same unable to connect message :-(

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lepling

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Jul 27, 2012 1:27 PM in response to nathan_h

Killed mine also. No dice connecting to a windows file server at all. Can smb into any other windows server just fine but not the file server

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Jul 29, 2012 11:59 AM in response to lepling

I have issues also.

With a samba share on Linux, ML can see it correctly, but on my Windows Home Server 2011, if i do smb://"server address" i receive and error saying that the share dows not exist on server. Before on Lion i had a list of my shares. On finder the Server apears with a "/" which i can not open.

If i do smb://"server address/share" is works correctly, but i would like to have tha before behaviour. Besides this the only issue that i found after upgrading is the WHS 2011 Lauchpad could not sign in (before in Lion was working).

Any ideas on how to solve this?

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nathan_h Author

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Jul 29, 2012 1:18 PM in response to magnosantos

Nope, but it is interesting that smb://"server address/share" works for you. Doesn't for me. I assume you are not using the quotation marks in real life.

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Answer 6

Jul 29, 2012 1:40 PM in response to nathan_h

Yeap. You assume correctly.

So... all of us are having straging behaviour with SMB in Mountain Lion, that with Lion were working correctly.

Hope Apple fix this.

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Answer 7

Jul 29, 2012 5:07 PM in response to nathan_h

I am also having problems accessing SMB Shares. All I get is folders called "/"

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Answer 8

Jul 29, 2012 8:01 PM in response to nathan_h

Typing in "smb://serveraddress/share" also worked for me - however, I do that that same "/" folder if I click on the link that comes up under Shared.

Under Lion simply typing "smb://serveraddress" worked perfectly fine.

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smnel

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Jul 30, 2012 3:59 AM in response to nathan_h

This is also not working for us after upgrading to Mountain Lion. As above, typing "smb://[server]/[folder]" works fine, however typing "smb://[server/" gives the share does not exist error. Hope this gets fixed as this is something we use to view all available shares on a server.

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Answer 10

Jul 30, 2012 4:44 AM in response to nathan_h

same here: smb://serveraddress/ doesn't list all shares, only 16 of total >30 are displayed.

smb://serveraddress/share works.

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MikeHiow

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Jul 30, 2012 7:34 AM in response to nathan_h

I also seem to be having the same/a similar 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 '/'

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Answer 12

Jul 30, 2012 8:38 AM in response to MikeHiow

And i believe that because of this, my Windows Home Server 2011 connector Software does not work.

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rev2782

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Jul 30, 2012 8:39 AM in response to nathan_h

Same issue with ML, i tried using ftp://10.0.0.10 and it works fine, but smb://10.0.0.10 shows a message that the server doesn´t exist, whatts the difference between Lion and ML in this part?

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g_pirtle

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Jul 30, 2012 9:11 AM in response to nathan_h

Just wanted to let you know that I am not experiencing any issues connecting to SMB shares, but I am bound to an Active Directory domain. Both methods are functioning as they should - Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server -> smb://0.0.0.0 and Finder -> Go -> Network -> Select Server

This isnt particularly helpful, but it does work in certain situations.

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Answer 15

Jul 30, 2012 3:06 PM in response to nathan_h

same problem here, can't connect.... need really a solution....

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