How connect to an older version of smb?

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How connect to an older version of smb?

Hi everyone I have a MacBook Pro Retina with OS X 10.10.

I am trying to connect to an smb server created by my router as a form of sharing content on an usb drive or hard drive. But every time I try it gives me this error:

"The version of the server you are trying to connect to is not supported. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem.".

I already have tried using cifs://ip instead of smb://ip, I have tried to use this command "echo "[default]" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf; echo "smb_neg=smb1_only" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf" too, but nothing seems to work!

Please help

Thanks

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), null

Posted on Dec 26, 2014 4:40 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 29, 2014 5:18 PM in response to HFSVBC

I'm having the same issue as HFSVBC with Yosemite when trying to connect to an older Buffalo Linkstation NAS. I also tried the same steps and am not having any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Answer 2

badtz

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Jan 17, 2015 7:55 PM in response to Anthony N.

Any updates on this? Looks like the nsmb.conf file in Yosemite doesn't work anymore........

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Answer 3

Mar 17, 2015 12:44 PM in response to badtz

I just upgraded yesterday and had this same problem. After a lot of experimenting and reading I ended up using a program called SMBUp which replaces Apple's smb protocol with the Samba version. I am not an expert in Terminal so I just let the program install with the default options. Once I did this I was able to connect to the server using Finder with the afp protocol with no issues. Hope that helps.

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Answer 4

May 31, 2015 4:51 AM in response to HFSVBC

Just wondering if there is any update, or whether I'm just not seeing the obvious.

-> I did find, that changing the username on my nas has helped, but I am unsure whether that's a sustainable fix.

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