Questions tagged [smb]
Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-layer network protocol allowing access to shared files and shared printers over a network.
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Can I share a volume mounted on macOS Sequoia 15.7 using Samba?
I have an AFPS SSD volume Piglet (I name my devices after Winnie the Pooh characters) mounted on my Mac Mini, which has 3 directories (containing different data)
I have tried to share either the ...
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Can I share a symlink files mounted on macOS using Samba?
I have a collection of movies on my Mac Mini.
Originally, these were located in ~/Movies, but as my collection grew, I moved most to an AFPS SSD volume mounted on the Mac Mini.
I created links to the ...
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How do I control the credentials used for an SMB mount?
I have a NAS, which shares some file systems via SMB. It supports Time Machine.
I set up the Time Machine backup to connect to the share using a specific 'Time Machine' user.
Now, I have another share ...
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automount of SMB share on MacOS Sequoia gets 'Operation not permitted'
I am attempting to get automount for an SMB share working on macOS Sequoia 15.7.3. However, this is getting an "Operation not permitted" error when attempting to access the mount point. ...
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Time Machine backup over SSH port forwarding
I have an SMB drive at home that works fine for Time Machine when I back up my machine while on the same network as the drive.
When I am away, I use SSH port forwarding to connect to the SMB drive on ...
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How can I prevent an admin user account from accessing file sharing on Mac, but still allow other users?
The latest Mac login and lock screens enforce failed password attempt and rate limits. However, as far as I can tell, Apple's File Sharing via SMB does not. That leads to a brute-force attack surface ...
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finding the ip of a mounted ip address
I am currently trying to look up the ip address of a mounted smb share for the purpose of accessing it via rclone. Ive tried many solutions, including the ones specified in This Thread, but these ...
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How can I automount SMB to a user directory on macOS Sequoia? [duplicate]
After much struggle, I found a way to mount SMB shares to a user directory on macOS Sequoia:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/78877529/8348310
However, I would like to have this happen automatically when ...
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Why is seemingly unusual behavior for SMB shares causing issues for me in macOS?
I have a Mac running macOS 15 (Sequoia) as a file server. For reasons unknown to me (which I would like to find out), copying files to the server results in weird behavior where the process repeatedly ...
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Unable to access macOS 15 Sequoia SMB shares from Windows 10
I've tried accessing my macOS 15.3 SMB shares from Windows 10 without success. "Windows sharing" is enabled in macOS.
I get a login prompt but it says the credentials are wrong every time. I ...
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Can't reach my Mac from my iPad Pro
I have a smb folder on my Mac mini. That is perfectly reachable from my MacBook Finder app but not from my iPad Pro Files app. I am completely puzzled. I use the same user/password from both devices ...
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IMazing backup to NAS very slow
I was experimenting with iMazing doing backups to my old Zyxl Nas542.
I did tests with AFP, SMB and NFS. Everything was dead slow.
After a while I found out the SMB performance on the Mac is low but ...
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How do I configure smbfs to not use "mfsymlink" option when mounting an SMB share?
I am connecting to a home storage server via SMB. I suspect that Apple's smbfs automatically adds an "mfsymlink" option when mounting server volumes. Is there a way to have it not add that ...
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What exactly is the concept that macOS calls "Windows sharing/Windows File Sharing"?
The file sharing dialog has confused me in every version of macOS I've used so far (Mojave, Ventura, Sonoma...) and I would like to understand the situation better.
In advanced sharing settings (...
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Making Finder play nice with SMB shares
Currently on Sequoia 15.2 although this is evident on earlier versions.
Summary: Finder's leftmost column which normally displays a selection of useful folders and any mounted drives also shows SMB ...
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