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I work for a small company accomplishing great, big, quick things. Our servers were showing signals of aging making out Exchange 2007 server a little temperamental. New mac connect to server smb connection failed Server Room Consolidate and Secure Server Room Personal Server Take this retired computer and mac there was a problem connecting to the server smb make it an over kill personal server. TECHNOLOGY IN THIS DISCUSSION Apple Mac OS X Microsoft Windows Server Join
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Go--> "Connect to Server" -> "SMB://ServerName/Share" but it failed even when he tried to do it with the ip address instead of the ServerName. Everything is Ok on the server side, but on the mac, OSx substitutes "AFP://SMB://ServerName/Share" for "SMB://ServerName/Share". Any ideas ? Thanks in advance Reply Subscribe RELATED TOPICS: Going to virtualize a 30 users SMB First server for SMB, what is good these days? files in SMB share on server osx smb does not work invisible to my Mac   22 Replies Thai Pepper OP Galen in Laguna Aug 29, 2013 at 7:53 UTC This is a well known and documented issue where Apple stopped paying for Samba licensing, and created their own version that doesn't work on anything. I think standard SMB ended with 10.6.8. There is no 'standard' solution. http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/11/apple-shifts-from-afp-file-sharing-to-smb2-in-os-x-109-mavericks or google 'osx smb does not work' for a good laugh, its right next to 'Mac mail stops getting mail from exchange' 0 Poblano OP RooWalla Aug 29, 2013 at 8:14 UTC Firewall setting on the server? Can he ping the server from the 10.4 machine? 10.4 smb connection should straight up work. it's beyond 10.5 where things went haywire. 0 Thai Pepper OP Galen in Laguna Aug 29, 2013 at 8:16 UTC maybe flip the /'s to a \'s. also, youhave to take out the AFP://, make sure you just type SMB://ServerName/Share and hit the + add button before you hit connect it should then ask you for your domain creds, if it decides to work 0 Habanero OP Helpful Post David1618 Aug 29, 2013 at 8:20 UTC I dunno what version of OS X you're onlaptops, but prefer to build my own Windows PCs when it comes to desktops. As a web developer, I can run all of my web servers and host my code within the Linux-y environment of OS X, and I can use
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my Windows PC to access and edit my code over the network. This is possible because mac connect to smb with username and password OS X supports SMB sharing, which is compatible with Windows networks. At least in theory. In reality, starting with OS X 10.7 (Lion) this smb el capitan became very problematic. Apple used to bundle Samba with earlier versions of OS X to enable SMB sharing. Then one day the Samba project switched to a more restrictive GPLv3 license, and Apple could no longer include it without open-sourcing https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/376307-mac-computer-fails-to-connect-to-a-server-via-smb their proprietary code. This left Apple with the ugly task of rolling their own SMB service, and since that’s mainly used for Windows sharing, they didn’t give a shit about it and did a horrible job. As a result, some serious problems started happening in OS X 10.7+ when using Windows networking. What are the problems with Apple’s shitty SMB? Starting with OS X 10.7, you may have noticed the following bugs when using SMB: Intermittent errors when saving files Intermittent http://blog.rubbingalcoholic.com/post/39412902216/fix-smb-windows-sharing-permissions-issue-in-os-x data corruption around the ends of files (seems fixed in 10.8) No inherited group permission on files created over SMB This last issue is the most frustrating. Because my web server software runs under a different user account, it requires group access to my files in order for them to actually work. Even though the folders have the correct group permissions, Apple’s SMB service isn’t inheriting them properly and new files are created with owner access only. This meant that any time I would create a file over the network from Windows, I would have to change the permissions on it manually on the OS X machine via SSH. Very tedious. What are the possible fixes? Use only Apple computers on your network. or install the SMBUp app by Eduo, which replaces Apple’s SMB implementation with the real Samba and provides a graphical frontend to manage it. or disable Apple’s SMB and manually install Samba yourself. Option 1 is stupid. Option 2 is tempting, until you download SMBUp and see what it wants to do. SMBUp wants to completely own the process of installing and configuring Samba on your machine, which involves downloading and installing a bunch of packages as root and not really knowing where those files or their configurations are being put. If you already use Homebrew to manage packages in OS X, then many of the packages SMBUp installs could possibly conflict with existing Homebrew packages, an
Mavericks brought a slight change that has caused some problems for certain users in mixed PC and Mac http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/30/connect-smb-nas-network-shares-os-x-mavericks/ environments. Without getting too geeky, Apple adjusted the default protocol for SMB (Samba, the Windows file sharing ability) from SMB1 to SMB2, and the SMB2 implementation apparently carries a bug http://www.danielschneller.com/2009/04/solved-problem-access-mac-os-x-smb.html which is incompatible with many NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices, and some versions of Windows. The issue is pretty obvious when you encounter it: Many Windows PC's, NAS drives, and Linux connect to machines won't access or mount from the Mac, and instead will try to connect or mount forever and ultimately time out, preventing connections, mapped drives, and general access. Fortunately there's a very easy workaround to connect to SMB and NAS shares from OS X Mavericks, OS X Yosemite, and OS X El Capitan: From the OS X Finder, hit Command+K to summon connect to smb "Go To Server" as usual In the "Server Address" field, enter the IP to connect to with the cifs:// prefix as follows: cifs://127.0.0.1 Connect to the SMB, NAS, or Windows share as usual Yes it really is as simple as specifying the protocol to be cifs:// rather than smb://, which if you've ever mounted Samba shares from the command line you've probably already used cifs before. If you're wondering why this works, it's because using CIFS connects with SMB1 rather than the (currently) buggy implementation of SMB2. The result; cross-platform network shares functioning as usual. I ran into this last night and it was fairly frustrating to experience, but a big thanks Todd Pilgrams on the Apple Discussion Boards who discovered the simple workaround a few days ago. Because there are tons of Mac-to-PC networks out there, this will probably be a frequently encountered issue for many Mavericks users. With that said, going the other way around and file sharing from Mac OS X to Windows continues to work exactly as intended, though it should be noted that OS X Mavericks has se
the user account appropriately. But whenever trying to connect from Vista, I ended up with "Systemfehler 1326" ("System error 1326 has occurred. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password") complaining about invalid username or password. First I suspected a problem with my longish password that contains special characters, but that was not it. Turns out it is a compatibility problem/feature between the Samba configuration in OS X (the component responsible for sharing folders via the SMB protocol) and Vista's default security settings. First a solution for the impatient: On Vista launch regedit.exe and navigate to "HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa". Check the value of "LmCompatibilityLevel" and set it to 1 - it defaults to 3. For a list of settings for this key, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Entry 239869 On my system I did not have to reboot, I could connect to the Mac share immediately. LM Compatibility Level 3 means the client will only try NTLMv2 authentication. This will not work against OS X in the default configuration, which only offer NTLMv1. By setting this to 1 you tell Vista to use v2 if the server supports it, but fall back to v1 if not. While this is a quick and rather simple fix, it degrades security. By default Vista only connects to SMB servers that support the NTLMv2 authentication mechanism, because it is superior to the older variant from a cryptographic point of view. See http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html and the Wikipedia entry on NTLM for more details. In general you should prefer increasing security instead of loosening restrictions. To do so, you should configure XP and Windows 2000 to the same level 3 setting as Vista (the registry key is the same) and also set up Mac OS X to support NTLMv2. Edit /var/db/smb.conf (using sudo vim) and make sure, the following two lines are present: ntlm auth = no lanman auth = no If not, add or edit them to appear like this. Do not change anything else in that file! When you are done, relaunch the Samba daemons: sudo launchctl stop org.samba.smbd sudo launchctl stop org.samba.nmbd sud