MacOS – No connection to network drive MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)

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I updated to Catalina today and now I cannot connect to my network drive via SMB.

I've tried:

  • using the ip-address, server name
  • the method of creating a nsmb.conf file

Regardless, all I get is an error message stating 'There was a problem connecting to server "name".'

I know the network drive is fine as I can still access the it from my phone and Windows 10.

Any ideas how else I might try to resolve this in macOS?

Best Answer

I was able to resolve this (temporarily) by restarting my Mac. I later discovered that I could restart the Finder to resolve it. Apparently the Finder app is responsible for network connections for other applications too.

While this does not prevent the reoccurrence, restarting Finder is a minor inconvenience. Hopefully this is a bug that Apple will resolve.

How to Relaunch the Finder

  • Hold ⌥ while right-clicking on the Finder dock icon → Relaunch
  • Open  Menu → Force Quit → Finder -> Relaunch
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