smb. Access the volumes and files locally. all lies!

I want to connect to a windows box which has sharing enabled. I was doing this yesterday and it was fine. Today, Mavericks has thrown in the towel and decided to think different.

What I normally do is CMD-K and connect to the server. I'll type it in - smb://tardproof - but it can't do it.

So I'll try connecting to it by it's known, fixed IP address - smb://192.168.0.107 - and ...

Hmm, that's strange. Since the mac clearly thinks it *can* see it on the network, otherwise why would it be listing it in the finders' "Shared" area? I mean, that's an automatic thing and not something you can command-drag out like normal locations...

ok.. so if I try to click on it there ...

Maybe it's authentication. I'll "Connect as ..."

Dang! Ok, lets think about this. Maybe it's SMB playing up. I know, I'll connect forcing SMB1, since I know Mavericks now defaults to v2.

and

Dang! (again). No, wait, the message has changed. "Access the volumes and files locally." Sweet, let me just

I'm sorry, where?

hmm, lets just check this out

so ok, there's definately nothing there in /Volumes, but I know I can ping it. Let's have a look from the other end - can Windows see my mac?

Yep. All good there. So we have a single direction smb system, in the exact opposite than I need.

Dang!