Hi Gea and others,
I've had this problem ever since I first set up my All-in-one NAS (ESXi->OmniOS+napp-it) a few years ago. I have AFP turned off and only SMB on. The problem is I see the name of my napp-it server in the OS X Finder under "Shared". If I click on it it shows "Not Connected" in the top bar. If I click the "Connect As" button and put in my username (set up on the OmniOS server) it accepts the credentials but I get "Connection Failed" in the top bar.
However, if I do Command-K instead and put smb://ipaddress and put in the same username and password it connects just fine.
This same thing happens on all my Macs and has been an issue since at least 10.8 (they're now all on 10.11.4). I don't think it's a DNS issue because I have no problem pinging the server by hostname. Also, my Windows PCs have no problem accessing the shares by hostname.
I don't believe this is an OmniOS/napp-it specific issue, because I found a thread on the FreeNAS forum with the exact same problem (and of course no solution posted). Direct SMB connection works, Finder left pane returns "connection failed" | FreeNAS Community
I was hopeful that updating to OmniOS 151018 would solve it due to the SMB improvements but no such luck.
It's not a huge problem but it is annoying. Do you experience this too? If not, I wonder if you could suggest any ideas of settings to check.
Thanks!
I've had this problem ever since I first set up my All-in-one NAS (ESXi->OmniOS+napp-it) a few years ago. I have AFP turned off and only SMB on. The problem is I see the name of my napp-it server in the OS X Finder under "Shared". If I click on it it shows "Not Connected" in the top bar. If I click the "Connect As" button and put in my username (set up on the OmniOS server) it accepts the credentials but I get "Connection Failed" in the top bar.
However, if I do Command-K instead and put smb://ipaddress and put in the same username and password it connects just fine.
This same thing happens on all my Macs and has been an issue since at least 10.8 (they're now all on 10.11.4). I don't think it's a DNS issue because I have no problem pinging the server by hostname. Also, my Windows PCs have no problem accessing the shares by hostname.
I don't believe this is an OmniOS/napp-it specific issue, because I found a thread on the FreeNAS forum with the exact same problem (and of course no solution posted). Direct SMB connection works, Finder left pane returns "connection failed" | FreeNAS Community
I was hopeful that updating to OmniOS 151018 would solve it due to the SMB improvements but no such luck.
It's not a huge problem but it is annoying. Do you experience this too? If not, I wonder if you could suggest any ideas of settings to check.
Thanks!