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Title: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Drifting on September 23, 2016, 11:00:16 AM: I know this is the SME forum, but a long shot someone might know what is causing this. Have a request open with Apple, so far nothing.

Having some weirdness with a local charity and SMB shares from SME 9.1

Customer foolishly upgraded to MacOS Sierra.

None of the mapped shares work, neither are they able to browse the servers shares directly with cifs://servername

Up pops a dialogue with "Too many connections, the server may be busy, try later!"

Of course everything else on their network works fine with SME, Windows and Linux workstations.
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Drifting on September 25, 2016, 11:35:53 PM: Can the mods move this please to the right forum, must have had a brain fart when I posted this in the contribs section!

Thanks
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Stefano on September 26, 2016, 07:30:08 AM: Moving to general discussion, as R(OTFL)equested.. :)
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: mmccarn on September 26, 2016, 12:41:05 PM: The Sierra OS requires SMB signing by default.

Here's the most succinct fix I could find for disabling smb client signing on a mac:

Quote from: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/cifs-smb-slow-with-10-11-5-and-macos-sierra.44243/
Navigate to /etc folder on the Mac
Create 'nsmb.conf'
Add the following lines:

[default]
signing_required=no

Once that is created and saved, restart the Mac.
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Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Drifting on September 26, 2016, 02:28:04 PM: Hi yes, thanks for that.

Tried it, it actually stopped the email from working (IMAP) to the SME, talk about confusing!

Regards Paul.
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Stefano on September 26, 2016, 02:40:08 PM: Quote from: Drifting on September 26, 2016, 02:28:04 PM
Hi yes, thanks for that.

Tried it, it actually stopped the email from working (IMAP) to the SME, talk about confusing!

Regards Paul.

Paul, please, try to report things with as much details as you can..
you have to apply that line on Mac side, not on SME's one.. and, sincerely, I can't find any reason for IMAP to stop..

we're trying to help you but we'd avoid any confusion
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Drifting on September 26, 2016, 02:56:43 PM: Quote from: Stefano on September 26, 2016, 02:40:08 PM
Paul, please, try to report things with as much details as you can..
you have to apply that line on Mac side, not on SME's one.. and, sincerely, I can't find any reason for IMAP to stop..

we're trying to help you but we'd avoid any confusion

Hi Sorry, it was rather an off hand comment, so many screwy things going on with this Mac update. It was the oddest thing ever that creating that nmdb.conf with the settings quoted actually stopped the email content from appearing? Will try it again, but did rather get confusing, and yes, I did understand that command was for the Mac not SME. SME is blameless, in all this, just wondered if anyone had come across the same.

Regards Paul.
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: Drifting on September 29, 2016, 01:16:55 PM: FYI

Anyone with a Mac do not upgrade to Sierra, spent ages with Apple support, and they suggested a rollback to El Capitan.

Further to this, it seems MacOS now no longer supports PPTP VPN, bit annoying that one.

Paul.
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: DanB35 on September 29, 2016, 08:59:13 PM: Quote from: Drifting on September 29, 2016, 01:16:55 PM
Further to this, it seems MacOS now no longer supports PPTP VPN, bit annoying that one.
Good. PPTP is horribly insecure and should have been deprecated years ago. There are contribs for OpenVPN and IPSec; I've found the OpenVPN one to work well for me.
Title: Re: MacOS Sierra
Post by: ReetP on September 30, 2016, 02:04:22 AM: Agree the death of PPTP is long overdue.

I rarely congratulate Apple but the get full marks for this one.

Hope M$ wake up & smell the coffee soon :-)