macOS Sonoma - SMB DFS broken

[Stevenm5781]

It seems DFS (Distributed file system) is broken. Unable to traverse a DFS namespace. Anybody else experiencing this?

 

[sirozha]

It seems DFS (Distributed file system) is broken. Unable to traverse a DFS namespace. Anybody else experiencing this?

I have an issue with Time Machine over SMB in Sonoma. The existing Time Machine backup drive (NAS share) didn’t work after the upgrade from Ventura to Sonoma. After I unmounted the NAS SMB share, Sonoma couldn’t re-mount it. The process would hang. I had to manually mount the same network share via AFP and then choose it as a Time Machine backup drive. That worked fine. So, the default network protocol for Time Machine backups in Sonoma (SMB) doesn’t work in 14.0

 

[mswalt]

We're seeing this too. We can mount DFS shares (smb://) in Finder but then clicking into any directory times out. The main DFS share we connect to is hosted on a Windows AD server and the subdirectories are links to Netapp shares.

Strangely we can mount the same DFS share and traverse directories if we do it from Terminal and use a mount point in the logged-in user's home directory. Maybe a permission thing?

 

[haritz85]

Hi,
I opened a ticket to Apple from my enterprise portal. It seems that the issue will be fixed in the next beta release.

 

[H_D]

Not again. SMB was broken in Ventura for months.

 

[haritz85]

I installed the beta 14.1 (23B5056e) and solved the issue.

 

[riskymoth]

I installed the beta 14.1 (23B5056e) and solved the issue.

Thank you - can confirm - the SMB shares I was accessing on 14.0 contained empty folders, with the latest 14.1 beta, everything's back...

 

[dan_h]

can anyone confirm SMB shares access via network users (LDAP authentication) is working on Sonoma? Can access via local user accounts, but not network accounts.

 

[dieselm]

Connecting to SMB Shares from iPadOS, iOS, tvOS would not connect and time out on 14.0.

14.1 fixes it.

 

[Internaut]

I can't connect to the corporate file server, at the moment. It looks like an authentication issue (but same method and credentials works from an Ubuntu VM).

 

[jeabraham]

I can't connect to linux SMB shares running Version 4.3.11-Ubuntu, but I can connect to shares running Version 4.15.13-Ubuntu.

 

[Hippo76]

Can anyone confirm if this 14.1 update has corrected the SMB DFS issue?

 

[lava_epochal]

I still can't connect. Updating my SMB server to Debian Bookworm didn't solve it either.

 

[myvoip07]

working again between Sonoma 14.1 and win10.

 

[gifty]

working again between Sonoma 14.1 and win10.

It's still not working for me, please advise if you upgraded to Beta version

 

[Internaut]

I can't connect to the corporate file server, at the moment. It looks like an authentication issue (but same method and credentials works from an Ubuntu VM).

14.1 has at least fixed that for me. I can now connect to the corporate Windows file server.

 

[jeabraham]

14.1 fixed it for me too.

 

[Charles.Phelan]

fortunately we only had a few staff/faculty report the empty folder/dfs issue, sonoma 14.1 fixed the problem

 

[Exdroid]

I can’t connect to SMB servers as well despite updating to 14.1. Any fixes anyone?

 

[dieselm]

My SMB shares are timing out again in 14.1.1, anyone else seeing this?

 

[Mikado]

It's broken on Sonoma 14.1.2 as well. Cannot connect to the time machine folder on my Synology 923+ but an older Macbook I have that's still on 14.0 connects with no issues. I'm waiting to hear back from Synology support for a fix (I hope)

 

[Alwis]

i still have this problem with 14.2...

I am using a QNAP NAS for years now, without changing the settings on the NAS I can not connect via finder & smb any longer. The connection dialogue shows all network share, so it somehow can connect and when selecting a share it says "the original object could not be found" (translated from the German text). When mounting via terminal it works as expected.

For now I am using afp, at least that works without any problems.

This whole SMB situation is a mess since Apple decided to implement their own version of it.

 

[Quartermarsh]

fwiw a hacky workaround for sonoma (and ventura) which has worked on two machines with network shares to synology tm backups via smb:

1. add them to login items to ensure that they mount on boot.

2. run caffeinate to make sure they stay mounted.

of course, ymmv (did I mention it was a hacky workaround?)

 

[lava_epochal]

Login items solved it too for me starting with 14.1