nathan_h
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Q: 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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  • by OrdsWoW,

    OrdsWoW OrdsWoW Jul 31, 2012 10:23 PM in response to Bernie Case
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    Jul 31, 2012 10:23 PM in response to Bernie Case

    Thanks, my feeling say's your right.

    I got 2 servers running.

    1 at @ Home with shares 25 shares. reply's with a map /.

    2 at @ holliday adress with 14 shares. reply's full list of shares.

    Next week , i am home again and will reduce the shares 1 by 1 and test it.

  • by magnosantos,

    magnosantos magnosantos Aug 1, 2012 10:28 AM in response to OrdsWoW
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    Aug 1, 2012 10:28 AM in response to OrdsWoW

    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.

  • by pjfrag,

    pjfrag pjfrag Aug 2, 2012 3:09 AM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 2, 2012 3:09 AM in response to nathan_h

    problem reproducable in my environment so.

     

    \\server.domain.local  => FAIL

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

     

    @APPLE: Please solve the bug!

  • by Marijnissen,

    Marijnissen Marijnissen Aug 2, 2012 4:35 AM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 2, 2012 4:35 AM in response to nathan_h

    I'm having the same problem

    but no solution yet

     

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

  • by freyke,

    freyke freyke Aug 2, 2012 5:39 AM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 2, 2012 5:39 AM in response to nathan_h

    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?

  • by Martin mol,

    Martin mol Martin mol Aug 2, 2012 6:14 AM in response to pjfrag
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    Aug 2, 2012 6:14 AM in response to pjfrag

    i can confirm it.

     

    \\server.domain.local  => FAIL

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

  • by jbarnett12,

    jbarnett12 jbarnett12 Aug 2, 2012 10:53 AM in response to magnosantos
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    Aug 2, 2012 10:53 AM in response to magnosantos

    "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

  • by magnosantos,

    magnosantos magnosantos Aug 2, 2012 10:55 AM in response to jbarnett12
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    Aug 2, 2012 10:55 AM in response to jbarnett12

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

  • by XSerban,

    XSerban XSerban Aug 2, 2012 1:25 PM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 2, 2012 1:25 PM in response to nathan_h

    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.

  • by Jeffrey H,

    Jeffrey H Jeffrey H Aug 2, 2012 1:42 PM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 2, 2012 1:42 PM in response to nathan_h

    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.

  • by magnosantos,

    magnosantos magnosantos Aug 2, 2012 1:47 PM in response to Jeffrey H
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    Aug 2, 2012 1:47 PM in response to Jeffrey H

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

  • by Jdawe,

    Jdawe Jdawe Aug 2, 2012 3:13 PM in response to Jeffrey H
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    Aug 2, 2012 3:13 PM in response to Jeffrey H

    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).

  • by Marijnissen,

    Marijnissen Marijnissen Aug 3, 2012 1:57 AM in response to freyke
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    Aug 3, 2012 1:57 AM in response to freyke

    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

  • by nathan_h,

    nathan_h nathan_h Aug 3, 2012 7:42 AM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:42 AM in response to nathan_h

    For me, I finally broke down and renamed my network computer (a Win7 machine) with my shared drives (three)  -- to a 3 letter name (both the machine itself, and the three drives in it I want to share) .....  and that worked!  Annoying, but now the machine shows up under SHARED in the Finder, and I can browse to the three shared drives.

     

    I find it very hard to believe that Apple doesn't have this use case as one of their primary, automated test scrips, that they run on even the smallest OS patch, let alone a major annual release, before the software goes public.

     

    Maybe these knew/know about this bug, and decided it wasn't worth delaying Mountain Lion in order to fix it?

  • by g_pirtle,

    g_pirtle g_pirtle Aug 3, 2012 7:49 AM in response to nathan_h
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    Aug 3, 2012 7:49 AM in response to nathan_h

    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.

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