NASLite Network Attached Storage

A MacBook just joined our workgroup of Win XP clients, none of which have any problem at all accessing the NASLite-2 shares. However, the MacBook under OS X sees the NASLite-2 in its server list, but will not mount it.

In attempting to Connect, it prompts for a username (which I delete, as it is the machine password) and I leave the password prompt blank. Then an error message tells me that the "alias NasLite-2" cannot be opened, because the original item cannot be found.

Yet the MacBook under OSX can readily access any other non-NASLite server or share.

Nevertheless, when I run WinXP (the MacBook dual boots WinXP from a Boot Camp partition), everything works fine, just as with the PC/Windows clients. Also, I cannot ping the NASLite-2 server from OS X, although I can HTTP to its IP address, read the HTM pages, etc.

Search the v1.x forums, this has been discussed thoroughly, this is a problem with OSX and you'll need to edit /etc/nsmb.conf from what I recall.

Make sure that you are not currently connected to any Samba or Windows (SMB/CIFS) servers and that you do not have any Samba or Windows-related error messages open.
Open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/).
At the prompt, type: sudo pico /etc/nsmb.conf
Press Return.
Enter your password when prompted, then press Return again.
You should see an empty file and a "New File" notice at the bottom of the pico window. If you do not see the "New File" notice, this file already exists.
Enter the following into the file so that it appears as follows:

[default]
minauth=none


Save the file (press Control-O), press Return, then exit pico (Control-X).
Type: sudo chmod a+r /etc/nsmb.conf
Press Return.
Restart your computer.