This typically lasts about a half-hour, during which I can go to a windows bar and log in and see files with the same ID and password. Enter an administrator password if youre asked to at the UAC dialog. Drag the icon for your network drive from your desktop to the startup. Open system settings > users > login items. If the 'good one' goes down and the MacBook automatically connects to the other one, instead of telling me the drive is off-line, the SMB drivers say 'Too many users.' (2) A couple of times a week, I get 'permission denied' when I try to access my Windows files. Under Computer Name, domain, and workgroup settings select Change Settings. Connect to your network drive (finder > go > connect to server) Enter the credentials for your login to your network drive and tick the ‘remember in keychain’. A couple of times a week, one or both of the routers goes down. (1) There are two WiFi systems here, and one of them has no access to the Windows servers. We have the common situation where our file servers are running Linux and the clients with their different. If you do these edits and don't want to reboot, you can mount them with 'auto mount -vc' Weirdness of macOS mounting Linux Samba share. After two or three days of that, it mysteriously started working again. We are mounting these file servers on Mac using the Samba share ( smb:// ). The file path can be a local one or ones in Windows FileServer. One quirk: After this worked fine for a few days, for two or three days, LibreOffice, Adobe Reader, and Finder could not find ONE of the two shares, but the shell and TextEdit had no problem. We are using Mono C to write a service (running in Mac environment) which will read a particular XML file and open the file from the path mentioned in the XML file.

In other words, DNS would resolve the name, but mount_smbfs could not.Īnd I could not put the mount point in /Volumes, because boot up would delete it. In the resulting window type smb:// followed by the IP address of the server containing the share. (not Volumes)/Public -fstype=smbfs,soft Volumes)/ WGroleau -fstype=smbfs,soft some reason, neither the short name nor the FQDN of the server worked, so I used 'ping (name) to get the IP. Open up the Finder and click Go Connect to Server. What worked for me to make them mount during boot: => /etc/auto_master /etc/auto_smb <= # Create this if it doesn't exist <****

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