Connect to an SMB Share that is shared out by Mac OS X Server - need specific working settings/how to input exact connection info

[howudoin39-2025]

Hi All,

I would like to put my team on Mountain Duck and I am having trouble figuring out how to connect it to the server.

I have an old 2013 Mac Pro running OS X Server under Sierra and I have about 20 share points shared out via SMB.

I can connect to the share points fine using the finder. But Mountain Duck has more and better options for managing the connections.

I have tried for weeks with MD installed to figure out the exact settings to put into the connection.

Lets say the sharpoint I wan to connect to is: TECH
And my username is: BOB
And the workgroup is: WORKGROUP

How exactly, i.e. what exact text would I put into the fields of a new connection to get this working.

I am sure it is simple. but with so many ways you could put the info in, I can't figure out where I am going wrong.

Thanks in advance for any help.. It would be great to get guidance from someone who has successfully encountered and overcome this roadblock.

Again - much appreciate and thank you for any help!

[dkocher]

We have not tested interoperability with macOS 10.12 Sierra Server but only macOS 13.5 supporting SMB3 ¹. Can you attach the output from smbutil statshares -a on the server.

Footnotes

1. https://docs.cyberduck.io/protocols/smb/#interoperability ↩

[howudoin39-2025]

Thank you for your help...

Here is the output I get when running the command you gave me:

Last login: Tue Oct  7 13:52:32 on ttys002
sv@MacBookPro ~ % smbutil statshares -a      

==================================================================================================
SHARE                         ATTRIBUTE TYPE                VALUE
==================================================================================================
TECH                          
                              SERVER_NAME                   XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
                              USER_ID                       501
                              SMB_NEGOTIATE                 SMBV_NEG_SMB1_ENABLED
                              SMB_NEGOTIATE                 SMBV_NEG_SMB2_ENABLED
                              SMB_NEGOTIATE                 SMBV_NEG_SMB3_ENABLED
                              SMB_VERSION                   SMB_3.0
                              SMB_ENCRYPT_ALGORITHMS        AES_128_CCM_ENABLED
                              SMB_ENCRYPT_ALGORITHMS        AES_128_GCM_ENABLED
                              SMB_ENCRYPT_ALGORITHMS        AES_256_CCM_ENABLED
                              SMB_ENCRYPT_ALGORITHMS        AES_256_GCM_ENABLED
                              SMB_CURR_ENCRYPT_ALGORITHM    OFF
                              SMB_SIGN_ALGORITHMS           AES_128_CMAC_ENABLED
                              SMB_SIGN_ALGORITHMS           AES_128_GMAC_ENABLED
                              SMB_CURR_SIGN_ALGORITHM       AES_128_CMAC
                              COMPRESSION_IO_THRESHOLD      4096
                              COMPRESSION_CHUNK_LEN         262144
                              COMPRESSION_MAX_FAIL_CNT      5
                              WRITE_COMPRESSION_CNT         0
                              WRITE_CNT_LZ77Huff            0
                              WRITE_CNT_LZ77                0
                              WRITE_CNT_LZNT1               0
                              WRITE_CNT_FWD_PATTERN         0
                              WRITE_CNT_BWD_PATTERN         0
                              READ_COMPRESSION_CNT          0
                              READ_CNT_LZ77Huff             0
                              READ_CNT_LZ77                 0
                              READ_CNT_LZNT1                0
                              READ_CNT_FWD_PATTERN          0
                              READ_CNT_BWD_PATTERN          0
                              SMB_SHARE_TYPE                DISK
                              SIGNING_SUPPORTED             TRUE
                              EXTENDED_SECURITY_SUPPORTED   TRUE
                              UNIX_SUPPORT                  TRUE
                              LARGE_FILE_SUPPORTED          TRUE
                              OS_X_SERVER                   TRUE
                              FILE_IDS_SUPPORTED            TRUE
                              FILE_LEASING_SUPPORTED        TRUE
                              MULTI_CREDIT_SUPPORTED        TRUE
                              ENCRYPTION_SUPPORTED          TRUE
                              SESSION_RECONNECT_TIME        0:0
                              SESSION_RECONNECT_COUNT       0

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sv@MacBookPro ~ % 

[dkocher]

SMB_CURR_ENCRYPT_ALGORITHM may indicate that encryption is not enabled. Please try with the SMB (No Encryption) connection profile available from Preferences → Profiles.