I have a Windows Server 2012 machine providing shares for multiple workstations.
I have 2 Mac users that connect to this server and use the shared folders. They report that this share keeps dropping. Everytime they report it, I check from my Windows workstation and the shares appear to be online — there seems to be no issue.
Is there anything I can do to make the mounted share consistent and not disappear? The issue is only on the Macs.
Both are running OS X v10.9.3
Best Answer
I have similar problems with users on my network using Mavericks, where no such issue existed with Mountain Lion. Most users can live with it, and they simply re-mount the disk. Apparently, the SMB implementation on Mavericks is different than it was in prior OS releases. What I have found is that if I connect to drives using cifs://servername rather than smb://servername, this pretty much mitigates the issue. This has been true for NAS, MFDs with Windows shares, and Windows servers alike.