network drive

When I boot up my mac studio. it takes about a minute for it to get network connectivity ( ethernet ). In the meantime, network drives that mount automatically fail. Is there a way to let the mounts wait for network connectivity ?

Hello, I have BIG problem after updating to macOS Ventura. When I try to save changes to an excel file located in a network location (SMB) I get the message - " The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please Close the document and try to...

On my Synology NAS I create some big disk images (with Apple file systems on them). The end result should be read-only, so I have tried sparse bundles with read-only permissions and read-only DMGs. Both work fine once created, but the creation of the DMGs fails quite often. So this makes...

Hi everyone, in recent times I had noticed on my Mac an internet connection speed (via ethernet) much lower than the first tests made when they brought the fiber into my house, from 700 to 300 about. Among the various tests attempted to understand what the cause was, I discovered that by...

Hello guys! I will try to be short and sweet concerning what I have to say. I have a computer configured to run as a server, running Windows OS. An external hard drive is connected to it. From my Macbook, I have a VPN client so I can connect to my server and access my files on the hard drive...

Hello guys, I have a Netgear Nighthawk 7500v2 with a USB HDD connected to it. I formatted it using Apple's Mac OS Plus + GUID and my Netgear picks it up no problem. The issue is that to connect to it, the SMB protocol seems to be the only way, and Time Machine refuses to see it. Is there any...

Hi, I'm new to the forum here. and i am having an issue that is starting to occur more and more over the last few days. With the Macs, InDesign files are created and edited on a day to day basis and some times when one of these files gets saved it will then become invisible on the Mac but...

Hello everyone, I'm hoping I'm asking in the right subforum here! I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro and I would like to synchronize the files I have on both via a local network drive (connected to my AirPort Extreme). Is there any way for macOS to treat the network drive like the iCloud Drive...

I have a small company that uses a drive connected to an Airport extreme that everyone shares. Everyone in the office keeps all their files on this drive. (we have both mac & pc users). We need a way to keep this drive backed up without having to manually move the files to another drive. Is...

Hello all, Quick question, is there a way to make my time machine drive that is connected to my iMac thru USB show up on the network and on my MacBook for use with TM? It already has the backups waiting to be used and works when connected, but I want to be able to do so wirelessly so I do not...

Has anyone ever had success or has known of anyone who has had success in using data recovery software such as Data Rescue 4, to recover back ups that Time Machine chose to delete unknowingly to the user? I am dealing with a troubling situation in which both duplicate backups of my data have...