Mac Keeps dropping SMB Network Share

[rhett7660]

Hello,

My Mac Mini running 10.11.6 keeps dropping the SMB share to a QNAP NAS box where all of my media resides. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I have searched and found for older OS's. This doesn't happen on my Mac Pro that is running the same OS.

I have checked the power saving and they are both setup the same.

I have just tried connecting via CIFS. Waiting to see if that helps.

 

[rhett7660]

Well, even CIFS didn't work, I ended up unmounting the SMB and used AFS. So far it seems to be holding. From everything I have been reading this seems to be a bug in Apple's implementation of their new version of SMB.

 

[satcomer]

Well, even CIFS didn't work, I ended up unmounting the SMB and used AFS. So far it seems to be holding. From everything I have been reading this seems to be a bug in Apple's implementation of their new version of SMB.

No they wrote the newer drivers to support the new SMB and many manufactures are still using the older version of SMB!

 

[rhett7660]

No they wrote the newer drivers to support the new SMB and many manufactures are still using the older version of SMB!

Interesting, there seems to be some a lot of information on the message boards regarding this. Either way, whether it is Apple's doing or the 3rd party vendors, I have had an issue with it and from the amount of messages, there are quite a few folks also having issues and it has been around for at least a year or so going back a few OS versions. Here is hoping someone gets it fixed up sooner than later!

 

[satcomer]

Interesting, there seems to be some a lot of information on the message boards regarding this. Either way, whether it is Apple's doing or the 3rd party vendors, I have had an issue with it and from the amount of messages, there are quite a few folks also having issues and it has been around for at least a year or so going back a few OS versions. Here is hoping someone gets it fixed up sooner than later!

It was something I read if (on a Mac) and if the device is less then 3 years ago, then the CIFS string instead of the SMB string that sometimes it works. This however seems only to work with share in Windows itself since 8+.

 

[rhett7660]

CIFS was incredible slow when I used it. I ended up using AFS, which isn't that much better but it is better. So far no drops since I switched it over to it. Had to re-do my iTunes and Plex library's, but it is working.