I thought it was my router and did a full reset using Asus firmware restoration tool on mac, reset and cleared NVRAM and still same. I formatted and did fresh install of OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 and problem still persists. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem.' The version of the server you are trying to connect to is not supported. On my macbook pro (mid 2014) i select 'Go' from the Finder bar and choose 'connect to server' i enter my router IP 'smb://192.168.1.1' and then enter my router login details but it comes up on macbook pro saying 'There was a problem connecting to the server “Media”. Previously up until approximately 8 weeks ago i was able to connect to my hard drive that's connected to the asus router via USB3 via SAMBA on my macbook pro. On there are media files videos, pics etc. I have a external HDD connected to my router via USB3. It was taken care of via ordinary software updates.I own a Asus RT-AC68U router running latest firmware beta version 9.0.0.4.380.2695, problem also existed on previous two/three firmwares as well which weren't beta. Next thing you know his server was slaved to a C&C server and used for DoS attacks and Wordpress hacks.Īpple's Apache did not have that vulnerability. Some random scan found an open port and used a PHP exploit. Had a client hacked last year because he was running an old Apache install that he never updated after putting it on his server via MacPorts. When a Samba vulnerability is discovered, even if a patch is released, you have to be on top of it, install the update yourself and then troubleshoot. When there's a bug or vulnerability discovered, the patch gets delivered to millions of users in an OS/Security update and any problems with those updates are quickly revealed. The Mac OS gets updated via the App Store. That's not the problem.Īre you going to stay up on the latest patches and troubleshoot when a patch messes up something on your Mac? Not saying that the source is never updated. I know my other command line tools on Linux are getting patched constantly. In fact, Samba might actually get more frequent patches than Apple's SMB. On Linux, I get updates all the time to my tools, yes, yes, Arch is kind of cheating since the whole OS is a rolling release.Įdited 1 time(s). Samba on the Mac, from a proper repository, is likely more up to date than anything Apple offers. I have no idea how secure SMB is on OS X, but Apple's patching of Samba in prior years was a flat out joke. How about a ports system install of Samba then? I used to be a Fink guy, but I know most people moved on to Homebrew or MacPorts. If your ancient NAS or FOSS multimedia app can't deal with SMB, it's time for a new NAS or new multimedia software.Įdited 2 time(s). Any app or service that hasn't been updated to support SMB's very basic security by now - six years since Apple dropped Samba - is woefully obsolete and is not something you should be relying upon. You run it on a Mac to bypass the security features of SMB. And troubleshooting help is limited because professionals are never going to install a kludge like that in production, so few people will have contributed expertise to the community. It replaces the SMB service on the Mac with a less-secure kludge that doesn't receive periodic updates or patches the way the Mac OS does, it messes up mDNS and can break at any time with an OS update or security update. Does the app just install a recent build of Samba? If so, what's the problem. The old Samba is not a substitute for SMB and can break at any moment. Now it shares out properly to other Macs and RasPis running Kodi. I used SMBup to straighten out my shares.
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