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HyperX13

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Sep 3, 2009
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I am running latest Mac OS with all updates (Mac Pro). I have a very strange thing happen. I connect to a buffalo NAS share via SMB. The connection could last a week or a day working great, then weird things start to happen. First sign of issues is I can't write to the SMB. I can read from it. If I eject the share, the OS just hangs and it never ejects it. I can't mount any new SMB shares until I reboot the Mac.

I already tried shutting down the network card and then starting it up (using sudo ifconfig en0 down and then sudo ifconfig en0 up). This doesn't help. I tried looking for samba service and restart it.

Reboot always fixes the issue and it will once again work for a while and then just not work.

In addition, a locally mounted Time Machine share hangs and is in "preparing to backup" mode. If I cancel it, it just says stopping backup but the backup never stops. All these things happen around the same time.

An y ideas?


P.S. Rebooting is a pain in the butt since I am running fusion with 3 different OSes in it.
 
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