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BIG SUR problems with SMB

moetiker said:
To day, I installed macOS Big Sur Beta 11.2. Bad news. The behavior is still the same and the shares are not listed. I can't believe that Apple is not willing to fix this major bug.
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It's just probably low on their list of things to fix. I'm not sure this problem is widespread otherwise there would be a lot of screaming; it seems that this is heavily used functionality that would be sorely missed.

Maybe people are happy to just work around the problem because they don't have many different share names. If I had the problem, and considering I use only a handful of share names on two servers, I would just save a bunch of "Favorite Server" entries in the connect dialog - one for each share. I understand that would be aggravating, inconvenient, and maybe even impossible when you have many more shares than I to deal with.
 
My support case by Apple enterprise support is still just same answer. There is a bug, but now any known date when this will be fixed.
We will not upgrade any clients to big sur before this will be fixed, as our users are used to be able to browse through shares. I did some test upgrades, but users did not have any clue what the share name was, they only knew folder names there where looking for.
 
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rossonero said:
My support case by Apple enterprise support is still just same answer. There is a bug, but now any known date when this will be fixed.
We will not upgrade any clients to big sur before this will be fixed, as our users are used to be able to browse through shares. I did some test upgrades, but users did not have any clue what the share name was, they only knew folder names there where looking for.
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Thanks for the Information. It would be great, if you could ask Apple enterprise support, if they have any information about the status of this bug?
 
There is no news as I wrote. They just reply that there is no information on when this will be fixed but it is a bug
 
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rossonero said:
My support case by Apple enterprise support is still just same answer. There is a bug, but now any known date when this will be fixed.
We will not upgrade any clients to big sur before this will be fixed, as our users are used to be able to browse through shares. I did some test upgrades, but users did not have any clue what the share name was, they only knew folder names there where looking for.
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I'm curious about the test upgrades. Did all the Macs that were upgraded have the same problem in that the computers couldn't browse the share names?
 
Yes - just browswing smb://servername will timeout - if you browse direct to share like smb://servername/share it works. But same issue on all clients and no matter servers
And when Apple checked logs they can see there is a timeout in the communication from the client, that is the bug
 
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I'm dealing with this bug since Catalina and so far none of the solution worked. I'm currently using "FE File Explorer" as a workaround (free, available from AppStore) - if anyone is interested. But I really hope this bug get's resolved.
 
Catalina ? - It sounds like something different then you are struggeling with, as of earlier versions has never been a problem for us.
 
Well Catalina drops the support for SMB 1 and 2 - this was the major difference. I think it's related, back then lot's of people started complaining about smb issues. And even though I have check many times SMB 3 is enabled on our Windows 10 machine, it's still not working. And the address, credentials and all other settings are definitely correct, because 3rd party apps can connect without problem.
 
Looking forward to a fix for the smb bug! I followed your advice and tried using the name of the server and share name and can now see the share. I am using unraid and this has caused all kinds of issues!
 
It is an SMB 3 issue. What OS are you trying to connect to? I had the same thing happen when trying to connect to 2012R2 but 2016 and higher work fine.
 
Well, I downloaded FE File Explorer. It immediately displayed all the Windows shares...... Though I thought this was an Apple problem, this certainly confirms it.
 
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Thank you for your e-mail. Product Engineering group has identified the root cause of issue, and fix will be on next OS release. However, I have no ETA yet. Once the testable fix has been released, I will let you know, then you can perform tests .
 
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No change on macOS Big Sur 11.2. Still broken and the SMB Share list is not shown. 😠
 
Hello, sorry for my English (I'm from Barcelona). I'm not sure if it has to do with what's wrong with me, but I just bought a MacBookPro M1 with Big Sur and I have no way to connect from my Windows 10. I don't see the folders. When I create the network drive in Windows "smb://IP/sharedforder" it asks me for network password. But I have access to password removed on windows and on mac I have guest access open. There are very few forums where they can help me with this since they are either Mac or Windows. Let's see if you can help me, because it is important to me. Greetings and thanks
 
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Our Product Engineering group has addressed this issue on macOS 11.3 Beta 1 20E5172i. Would you be able to test the issue on new beta and let me know if it fixes on your environment?
 
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moetiker said:
No change on macOS Big Sur 11.2. Still broken and the SMB Share list is not shown. 😠
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Same here.
I'm using Synology NAS as a SMB-server. It have worked for years without any problems. After installing Big Sur and also after update yesterday problem persist. After full restart I can access my SMB shares. After just closing lid and opening it again later, I can't connect to SMB shares again. Old laptop (late 2013 Pro) but maybe that's not related.

Nice thing was that Apple Watch login is now working again. It was broken for a while (before Big Sur).
 
rossonero said:
NEWS from apple!!
Our Product Engineering group has addressed this issue on macOS 11.3 Beta 1 20E5172i. Would you be able to test the issue on new beta and let me know if it fixes on your environment?
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I can do it as soon it is available...
 
_Matti_ said:
Same here.
I'm using Synology NAS as a SMB-server. It have worked for years without any problems. After installing Big Sur and also after update yesterday problem persist. After full restart I can access my SMB shares. After just closing lid and opening it again later, I can't connect to SMB shares again. Old laptop (late 2013 Pro) but maybe that's not related.

Nice thing was that Apple Watch login is now working again. It was broken for a while (before Big Sur).
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Sounds like your issue deserves a new thread. It seem unrelated to what this thread is about. This thread is only about the inability to list available shares offered by a Windows computer.
 
On Windows machine go to Turn Windows features on or off.

check-->SMB1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support. check-->SMB1.0/CIFS Client

Works on all our Bigsure machines so far.


This has been happening to a lot of our clients who foolishly upgraded to Bigsur toooooooooooo early.
 
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