Hello eldats et al,
As usual, it is all about the "All Mighty Dollar".
Historical Gossip:
Some years ago, as new technology continued developing and those developers wished to trap you into only using their system, each mega-conglomarete developed their own file formatting system (smb://, afp://, nfs://, ntfs://, etc.) Some are so similar, than in reality, I personally do not see the point, but I digress. Big Dollar Corporations were determined to keep their money in their pockets rather than keep up with technology development. Fast forward to 4 or 5 years ago. The big wigs of the "Software Developing Community" decided to create a unified file sharing system, one that will be more efficient than all the others combined. Left stage entry for: cifs://. Every OS's was on board until, gramps Win decided to pull out of the joint effort, created what we could call: smb2 but didn't "officially" tell the rest of the team.
Today:
The smb:// that you see on the Apple's System Preference File Sharing window is a legacy command (smb1://) that not even MS supports any longer. However, the development of the interpreter was and is one of the most successful achievements in the history of software development since putting a man on the Moon with technology equivalent to that of a Casio watch.
Short answer A:
Use Terminal to enable NTFS support on Hardrive in El Capitan
We do not talk about why Mac OS X does not support full NTFS itself or why This feature is hidden from Mac OS X. We absolutely can use Terminal command to manually Enable NTFS write support. Let’s see how it works.
- To run Terminal: Applications > Utilities > Terminal
- Type: sudo nano /etc/fstab
- Fill your user password
- You now are brought to a program called nano and it’s the text editor that’s built into Terminal. The file that you’ll edit is called
stab.
- Within nano type:LABEL=DRIVE_NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
Notice: DRIVE_NAME is the name of the drive. The drive’s name should contain no spaces, as adding a space to the configuration file would tell your Mac to interpret whatever’s after that space as a separate command. If your DRIVE_NAME is made up of two words separated with a space, for example, “NO NAME”, you have to add a “\” before the space for the system to recognize the space. For example, “NO\ NAME”.
Finally, you just Control-O to save the file and Control-X to exit nano.
In Finder, verify the Volume is recognized and Mount it.
Short answer B
On the sharing server one have to options:
1. Un-click the share using smb:// in the Options pane. This way el capitan will know that all incoming files are afp://.
2. if one do not have option of removing smb:// all together from the alternatives, then let the receiving end handle the files.
On the receiving side, always mount the servers that so graciously have been shared with you, and to do so:
1. Open a new Finder window.
2. From the Finder Menu click on: Go -> Connect to Server (or what is the same, press: cmdK simultaneously)
3. Use the filing system command cifs:// and the server IP address a / and a folder name if it is necessary: cifs://192.27.10.254/
4. Return to the Finder Menu click on: Go -> Connect to Server (or what is the same, press: cmdK simultaneously)
5. and click the + sign to save the address to favorites.
If the server doesn't automatically mounts at Boot, the server will remain listed on your Finder window to easily activate.
Good Luck.
