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New iMac not connecting to SBS 2011

An office of 9 Macs. All up to date OS wise. All are joined to the domain xxxxxx.local and can log on and authenticate as domain users.

Connecting to the server to access a share brings this message: There was a problem connecting to the server. URLs with the type "smb:" are not supported.

Only happening on one Mac. Any ideas? I've removed it and re-added it to the domain fine!!! It picks up and IP address just fine but SMB seems problematic. I had been fine for the past 10 days since I bought and installed it...

Thanks.

Jackie Man

You need to change smb: with cifs: and you shall be fine.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/280511

ljkal

ASKER

Tried that and AFP, same type of error msg...

David Anders

There was a problem with High Sierra and root access that prompted a patch that caused SMB problems.
Supposedly fixed in 10.13.2

http://osxdaily.com/2017/11/29/fix-file-sharing-macos-high-sierra-security-update/

Unlikely but Etrecheck may indicate problems.

Unlikely but logging in as a new user can help differentiate between system and user problem.

ljkal

ASKER

David, thanks but the Mac can 'see' the server fine, I've removed it from the domain and re-added it, no problem. I've changed the users pwd and he can authenticate when logging on just fine. Logging in as another user is the same too.
It's just the damned network shares!!!!!!...I've used the NetBIOS name, the IP address, smb, cifs, apf, blank...nothing gets validated. Very annoying.

ljkal

ASKER

p.s. I'll try the workaround on the link you provided and report back. On Monday! :)

ljkal

ASKER

Nope. None of that worked. The version of HS is actually higher than the two listed on the support site.
CIFS, SMB, AFP, IP address, user@domain....none of these work.
All the other Macs are fine.
Also, I upgraded from SBS 2011 to Win2016, and problem is identical...

serialband

Have you tried using the IP address of the server? (e.g. smb://10.0.0.1 ) If that works, maybe you have DNS issues and can't reach the server via the domain name.

ljkal

ASKER

Yep. All perfect, and I found the cause! An aborted install of DAVE that was out of date caused an error and left a residual file overwriting the Mac's SMB properties. Here's the link below: (Proper needle in a haystack stuff!!!).

https://github.com/ilessing/ilessing.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2016-04-21-urls-with-type-smb-not-supported.md

Thanks for everyone's help, but this solution was down to Lady Luck!!!! :)

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