After upgrading Mac OS X to high sierra, SMB connections started returning authentication error. If I use it on other computer (using el capitan), it smb connection works fine with my username and password. Was wondering if anyone else has faced similar issue.
SMB connections throws authentication error after upgrading Mac OS X to 10.13
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Samba passwords are managed separately from your regular account password. Have you set-up your user to enable samba sharing in the options menu? You need to do it once otherwise the login won't work.
In the File Sharing preference pane tick the checkbox next to the user you want to enable file sharing for and a window will pop-up asking you to authenticate.
As soon as this is done you should be able to login from your android tablet.
UPDATE
The root cause of the issue might be that 10.9 uses a new SMB2 Stack completely written by Apple (SAMBA is not used anymore). Apple's SMB2 implementation is not compatible with many other SMB2 NAS products on the market today while Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 work just fine. In short, it's an Apple bug.
As a workaround you can force OSX to use SMB1 instead of SMB2 using a configuration file:
- Open up the Terminal
Paste the following line followed by a return key (command should be one single line)
echo "[default]" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf; echo "smb_neg=smb1_only" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf
Explanation:
- A file called nsmb.conf is created in your home directory at the path ~/Library/Preferences/
- It adds the lines to force the use of SMB1 protocol instead of Apple's SMB2 (this is slower but more stable)
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Best Answer
My experience is 10.13.4 broke things.
I have 2 macs, the iMac is running 10.13.3 and logs into the freenas server just fine. The mini was running 10.13.3 and then upgraded to 10.13.4 and it will not login to the freenas server on my normal share.
Needless to say I have switched off all OS upgrades on the machine running 10.13.3. I can login to the Freenas from the mini if I use the guest account but I'd rather not use that.