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Here are the steps I followed to resolve the issue:Ĥ. I'm still not sure why there is such a difference between the different machines though. I added nolocks,locallocks to my NFS mount options and now the NFS shares work perfectly. Add nolocks,locallocks and your world will be faster and happier after you reboot. These options get applied on every mount. If you want to fix every automount, edit /etc/nf and search for the line that starts with AUTOMOUNTD_MNTOPTS=. You can edit /etc/auto_master to add these options to the /net entry, but it doesn't affect other mounts - however I do recommend deleting the hidefromfinder option in auto_master. You can do it by adding the 'nolocks,locallocks' options in the advanced options field of the Disk Utility NFS mounting UI, but this is painful if you do a lot of them, and doesn't help at all with /net. They clearly did something in Snow Leopard to aggravate this problem: it's now nasty enough to make NFS almost useless for me.įortunately, there is a fix: just turn off network locking. Even if you do get the NFS server tuned precisely the way that OS X wants it, performance sucks because of all the lock/unlock protocol requests that fly across the network. It'll succeed, but you'll keep getting messages indicating that the lock server is down, followed quickly by another message that the lock server is back up again. So much so that if you randomly pick an NFS server in a large enterprise, true success is pretty unlikely. However, there is a huge problem with this: OS X does a phenominal amount of file locking (some would say, needlessly so) and has always been really sensitive to the configuration of locking on the NFS servers. Looks like James Gosling (of Java fame) had the same issue that I was having: NFS on Snow Leopard Thanks for recommending SMBUp, I'll take a look at that and see if it will help with CIFS shares. If there was a problem with my Solaris server, then I'd expect the same problem to happen on other clients, which is not happening.ĭoes anyone have any ideas what might be causing this problem? Connecting to NFS shares is quick, and I'm able to browse the directory structures and transfer files quickly. My wife has a 13' retina MacBook Pro, and I also have a Mac Mini which doesn't suffer the same problems. I've also tried disabling the wireless card and using my Thunderbolt Display Gigabit connection and the same problem still occurs.

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I haven't installed any extra software apart from the base OS. I've tried re-installing OS X 10.8 from scratch twice, erasing the disk beforehand and the problem still persists. I'm running OS X 10.8 with the latest updates from Apple. File transfers never complete and the Finder frequently hangs. The problem I'm seeing is that connecting to the shares takes a long time, browsing the directory structure takes forever and the network shares frequently disconnect. If you're looking to increase the speed and reliability, look into ExtremeZ-IP.

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It's free and it reinstalls SAMBA on your OSX machine, however it's limited to SMB1.

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I've got a problem with my 15' retina MacBook Pro when connecting to NFS and SMB shares from a Solaris 11.1 server. If you're looking to fix the reliability aspect to keep from having frequent disconnections, look for some software called SMBUP.