Cp from shell (Terminal) or Finder: “Operation not supported”

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An odd issue here after an upgrade from High Sierra to Catalina. When I try to copy files from an SMB network share in the Terminal (bash and zsh), I get:

$ cp /Volumes/share_name/path/file.ext  ~/Documents 
cp: /Volumes/share_name/path/file.ext: Operation not supported

When I try to copy the same file via Finder, I get "The operation can't be completed because it isn't supported":

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I've tried to execute this with sudo and I've tried to repair user permissions (user ID is501, so: sudo diskutil resetUserPermissions / 501) and the same results.

Important to note: Other systems with Catalina work just fine with the same SMB share.

Best Answer

It turned out that the problem was actually an existing /etc/nsmb.conf. When this was removed the SMB client behavior returned to normal in this regard. Within it, the previous user had defined:

[default]
signing_required=no
protocol_vers_map=1
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