Finder freezes after access windows SMB folder.The finder freezes after I access the network after 4 to 6 times. The Finder shows the spinning beach ball and it shows as “Not Responding”. I can access any other app that was already running. I have fo

Same situation here. I always seem to noticed it right after I rename a file. The file name is not updated in finder but on the Windows side all shows fine. I close the finder window and when I reopen it the first few times either nothing is shown for any of the smb drives or everything freezes and the ball starts spinning. This problem only started happening a few weeks ago. I have not noticed the problem when I'm just accessing or deleting files.

In this day and age, you should always use the acronym SMB.

However, I have noticed working in IT, many issues with Mac Finder freezing and locking down the machine.

I have personally found that CIFS protocol resolves the Finder issues.

Odd as this sounds, it has worked.

The BEST solution would be to use an FTP, like FileZilla.

Hope this helps!

SMB
SMB stands for “Server Message Block.” It’s a file sharing protocol that was invented by IBM and has been around since the mid-eighties. It was designed to allow computers to read and write files to a remote host over a local area network (LAN). The directories on the remote hosts made available via SMB are called “shares.”

CIFS
CIFS stands for “Common Internet File System.” CIFS is a dialect of SMB. That is, CIFS is a particular implementation of the Server Message Block protocol, created by Microsoft.

Citation on SMB / CIFS: https://blog.varonis.com/the-difference-between-cifs-and-smb/

The Finder doesnt like Windows shares.

Yes Apple fully support SMB but the Finder issue is one only resolved on Samba Shares using the newer vfs_fruits module

You have a simple course of action, buy Acronis Access Connect which provides native file sharing to Macs from Windows server.

The other option, which is known to work with no issues as well (no cost), is FTP (FileZilla / WinSCP / Etc.).

I hope this helps!

Several responders report success using CIFS “Common Internet File System”. That is encouraging.

It would be great however if somebody could shed a little light on HOW to deploy this solution, not only THAT it works.

Many thanks!

As I mentioned, I use a script/application that runs at startup to mount my shares. For that I just needed to change smb to cifs in the mount command: mount volume "cifs://loudt/C"

Sorry but I don't know how to do it using the OS.

SMB problem appears to have been solved. After the update I changed my mounting script/application back to using SMB and all has been fine so far. When looking at the details of the update on Apple's site it mentions that it fixes the freezing due to SMB.

Thank you, turtlefromwellington, no worries!

I think that there may be a lot more to learn in this thread addressing the same issue: MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 causing Finder crash

Kind regards

Same problem 😟

Macbook Pro 2011

MacOS 10.13.2

Yes. It works! Thank you!

Appears to be working for me. I changed my mounting script/application to use cifs instead of smb and have been able to rename a number of files going into and out of the disk.

Thank you very much!

Update: It has been a week now since I changed to using CIFS and all is working well. I have not had Finder freeze once since making the change. Thanks again!

Ignore this comment.

I see its an old post.