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Before I upgrade to Yosemite Server (from 3.2.2) I was wondering what are people's experiences with SMB file sharing in Yosemite Server, I see some changes had been made, is it working anywhere near reliably yet - in terms of file sharing between Macs and PCs? (like Snow Leopard Server used to)
Thanks,
Mac mini, OS X Server, OSX Server 3.22 on 10.9.5 Mavericks
I am unable to connect to the SMB shares on my mac from Windows/Sonos clients on my network.
that does sound like a slightly different problem I experienced, can you try turn samba sharing off and on in File Sharing preferences.
Same issues as flur. Unable to connect to my Mac from my Windows machines with confirmed valid credentials.
Could you try (a) turn samba off and on again in sharing or see if that helps, or (b) borrowing a possible workaround from http://www.jimmah.com/vista/net/ntlm.aspx , change the local security policy on your PC.
Personally, I have had the PCs on my network connecting with Samba via Macports since OSX 10.8, and thats worked fine but not user friendly for anyone unfamiliar with Terminal.
Got exactly the same issue here, worked perfectly in mavericks. Since yosemite have been unable to access mac from windows via SMB
On your windows machine(s) effected, check the following registry key;
Key "LmCompatibilityLevel" located in directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa, you will find
this is already set to "1", change that from "1" to "3". It doesn't require a reboot and takes effect immediately.
This fixed the issue on all of my windows 7 and 8 machines.
Thanks - also works on win 2003. Was set to 2 changed to 3 and all working.
Same thing here. Value was set to 2, changed to 3 and issue was resolved.
Changing from 1 to 3 resolved my issue. Thanks a lot
Thanks for your replies, to update my original post I installed Server 4 on a clean install of Yosemite, and have to admit file sharing in afp and smb has been working nicely for about a month, its not worked this well since I was forced to migrate from Snow Leopard Server.
There was one PC running Vista which encountered various errors copying to, or saving to the server. Tried all or most of the various 'fixes' on this and other forums with no luck. Ultimately the only thing that fixed it for me was upgrading to Windows 7. Now all fine.
I did find that on Vista and XP, after making the change a reboot was required.
I have not been able to find an error free setting for Yosemite from among the five available in Win7 Ultimate regardless of whether smb2/3 is disabled or not on Win7. I appear to be sharing without problems under Mavericks with Win7 LmCompatibility set for "send NTLMv2 response - refuse LM and NTLM" (this appears to be equivalent to level 5 setting in your key) and smb2/3 disabled on Win7. I have achieved limited sharing from Yosemite to Win7 in that I can stream audio/video to Win7 but can't simultaneously record video back to the Yosemite share; I also get some write errors as well. So are you getting simultaneous read/write performance with Yosemite sharing to Win7?
I had two servers where SMB completely broke on me once I updated to Yosemite. I had a scanner that could no longer connect, and I had one Windows user that was unable to connect.
My friend Charles had me log into terminal and type the following, which fixed the issue on both servers:
sudo server admin settings smb:ntlm auth = "yes"
sudo serveradmin settings smb:lanman auth = “yes”
Here is his whole post on the issue:
http://krypted.com/windows-server/yosemite-server-smb-and-windows/
Thanks a million for this! I spent the better part of a day evaluating solutions in order to get this to work. This fix worked immediately for me!
SMB sharing in Yosemite Server
