[Janaka Cooray]

Hi,

I am on the brink of downgrading back to Tiger ...

I have been frustrated so far in my attempts to connect to a Samba share (a NAS drive) from Snow Leopard. There have been several reports of this being broken for some users in Snow Leopard (various Mac sites)...

My problem is that when trying to connect to the share from Finder, the connection fails saying the User Name or Password are incorrect.

However, I can connect to the share using smbclient from the command line like so:

smbclient \\\\storage\\public -U media

Triying to mount the share from the command line:

mount -t smbfs //media@storage/public share

also throws up the same error (User Name or Password incorrect).

I have tried setting a numeric password, to no avail.

Is it possible to get Snow Leopard to connect to a Guest account on a Samba share?

Please help! It seems a shame to have to downgrade to connect to a NAS drive (but it holds all my media).

Hope someone here can shed some light on the situation - you guys have been really helpful in the past:

(Macbook Pro 15" (Mid 2007) 2.4GHz Core2 Duo 2GB RAM 160GB HD Geforce 8600 GTM 256MB)

[mdc]

What happens if you use the Finders Connect To Server (command+K) and then type in smb://storage/public ?

[Janaka Cooray]

Originally Posted by mdc 

What happens if you use the Finders Connect To Server (command+K) and then type in smb://storage/public ?

aaarrgghh!! I downgraded to Tiger!

But...

I bought the NAS at the same time as Snow Leopard and so I proceeded to connect to it for the first time under Tiger...

Connecting using "Connect to Server" from the Finder using

smb://storage

I recived:

"The Finder cannot complete the operation because some of the data in smb://storage could not be read or written. (Error code -36)"

Googling this, I found Apple Support Article TS1564 which explained that some Samba shares require a plain text password and from Tiger onwards, the Finder submitted encrypted password by default and so advised to add the following to the /etc/nsmb.conf:

[default]
minauth=none

This initially didn't seem to work until I connected from the Finder using...

smb://storage/public

Then it worked!!

I did alter nsmb.conf in Snow leopard (I never connected from the finder though - the command line just said that their was an authentication error).

The dilema I now face is whether Snow Leopard has another bug (I never got smb error -36, it just always refused the password).

Is anyone aware if Snow Leopard has problems submitting clear text passwords?

I am loathe to install Snow Leopard only to be frustrated at the first hurdle again. However, I've noticed that an increasing number of apps are requesting Leopard as the minimum - Tiger support wont continue for ever

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Janaka Cooray 

I bought the NAS at the same time as Snow Leopard...

Did they advertise it as compatible with Mac OS X ?
I'm surprised you are having issues like that. I thought NAS were basically plug&play.

-t

[mdc]

Originally Posted by Janaka Cooray 

This initially didn't seem to work until I connected from the Finder using...
smb://storage/public
Then it worked!!

Finder -- Mac OS ? -- seems to have an issue with connecting to smb://server but it is fine with connecting to smb://server/share. It's odd but here in my office I have to connect to the share for it to work. Browsing to the server through the Finder sidebar's Shared > All... works fine though.

I haven't seen the Snow Leopard errors with passwords, sorry.

[ibook_steve]

Also, sometimes (at least here at work) you have to add a dollar sign after the drive name if there are multiple drives:

smb://server/drive$

Steve

[Janaka Cooray]

Thanks Guys - I'm going to re-install SL and try smb://server/share (after setting nsmb.conf to minauth=none to submit clear text passwords) I beleive I have old Samba 2 software on the NAS since Windows needs to have a security policy setting changed to submit clear text passwords too.

[scottdeagan]

I have 10.6.3, and it seems this is STILL a problem. I cannot access my NAS drives that happen to be running an early version of SAMBA. Sorry, what was Apple's solution again? Purchase third party software? That's fantastic support! Good to see interoperability (something a large percentage of users require) is high on Apple's priority list.

[avrelus]

Ok, the solution that worked for me was to specify the WORKGROUP in the command :

'mount_smbfs //'WORKGROUP;user':password@ip_address/share /mount/point'

See Mac OSX 10.6 snow leopard 'mount_smbfs' authentication error problem | dejadejoder