At wit's end. Have MBP named newt
running High Sierra. Have Windows 10 machine named "Vader" that's always up & running with a physical drive (X:
) shared as //Vader/x
with permissions set to Everyone
having full control. Other Windows machines can access share just fine & read, write, etc. Windows 10 box has user Adams
with no password & automatically logs in at boot.
Prior to installing Sierra, had no problems accessing share. Since Sierra (now on High Sierra, hoping it'd fix but didn't), I haven't been able to access at all, always with the following error with text There was a problem connecting to the server
:
Windows 10 machine's workgroup is WORKGROUP
, and so is MBP's:
I've got a pretty simple Google WiFi setup (with 3 units) providing my home network. All machines are on the wifi network (192.168.86.0/24
). Here's some terminal output from newt
:
$ ping vader
PING vader.lan (192.168.86.86): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.86.86: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=2.208 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.86.86: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=5.940 ms
^C
--- vader.lan ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.208/4.074/5.940/1.866 ms
matthew@newt:/Volumes
$ smbutil lookup vader
Got response from 192.168.86.86
IP address of vader: 192.168.86.86
$ smbutil status 192.168.86.86
Using IP address of 192.168.86.86: 192.168.86.86
Workgroup: WORKGROUP
Server: VADER
$ smbutil identity -N //vader
smbutil: server connection failed: No such file or directory
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't know what else to try. I've searched many docs, forums, StackExchange sites, etc.