topic Re: SMB for MAC OSX in ONTAP Hardware

SMB for MAC OSX

Tsainami — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:44:33 GMT

Is anyone else having major issues with Mac OS X 10.9.x via SMB2 CIFS...?

Finder is a major drag with upwards of 30 - 50 seconds to load the content.

DOT Version is 8.2.1 7 Mode.

Re: SMB for MAC OSX

MarcSchindler — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 15:40:50 GMT

Hi,

Please upgrade to 8.2.4, because there are many issues fixed.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks

Re: SMB for MAC OSX

Tsainami — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:13:09 GMT

What issues were fixed? Any Documentation around it?

Re: SMB for MAC OSX

MarcSchindler — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:05:47 GMT

Hello,

For example following issues were fixed in 8.2.3x:

- client fails to open/save word document via SMB3 / ID 863246

- widelink access via SMB / ID 642665

- some performance issues

Did you upgrade and try the test again ?

Best regards

Re: SMB for MAC OSX

DOMINIC_WYSS — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:29:41 GMT

OS X behaves differently when you open the connection with cifs:// or smb://

try both and use the one which is working better for you.

use the bug comparison tool to see which bugs have been fixed:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/relcmp.on

Re: SMB for MAC OSX

MarcSchindler — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:50:10 GMT

That's right, but be careful if you use cifs instead of smb in finder.

CIFS:// makes only a SMB1 connection to the share and SMB:// negotiate the right (maximum) version if the client has no configuration entry with a forced version.

The usable SMB version can also be configured on the vServer (SVM) in cDOT.