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. 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. 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.

If you do these edits and don't want to reboot, you can mount them with 'auto mount -vc' After two or three days of that, it mysteriously started working again. 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. This is the command which is used to add the user shareuser1 to the Samba. When the user has been created, we add the user to the Samba database and assign a password. Using a UNC Path: Windows 7 or Mac OS X Net Use: Windows 7 (recommended for non-Cornell AD. Follow the on screen instructions and enter the information about the account you are creating. You can connect to a CIFS Share using any of the following methods. 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. adduser disabled-login -shell /bin/false -home /home/shareuser1 shareuser1. (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. What worked for me to make them mount during boot: => /etc/auto_master /etc/auto_smb <= # Create this if it doesn't exist <****

Connect to mac smb share port