Connecting to Windows SMB Shares

[dmillar74]

I use an iMac at work and I connect to a windows 10 shared drive. After updating to Catalina, I cannot access the SMB shares at all. Strangely enough I can access them through parallels (Windows 10) but not from the MacOS side. I found online that NetBios is disabled by default in Catalina... So I created the file again, to allow NetBios to be enabled, with no success. I’ve also disabled file sharing and re-enabled it too. Nothing works. Frustrated, I went back to my recent time machine backup with Mojave and everything is back to normal. Anyone have any luck?

 

[joelovesapple]

Did you try the Finder Go menu and Connect to Server?

 

[dmillar74]

Yep. That is what I used to do in Mojave. No luck in Catalina.

 

[Jvester]

did you find a solution to connect your mac (catalina) to a windows server? thanks in advance

 

[joelovesapple]

It seems to work for me with 10.15.1 automatically.

 

[Jvester]

Ok that's good news. Have an x1 extreme now but miss macOs. Can you also work from home directly on the windows server? Had a mac 2 years ago and there I had to copy the server files (excel and word files) and work locally when working from home. I had no problems at work.