#5442 server

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I know you love these issues: For as long as I can remember, I have been accessing the server by opening a finder window, looking to my left for what I call the sidebar, going to “locations” and I see “mso” and an icon that looks like a server and clicking on it and entering my credentials. A few days ago, that stopped working consistently. By consistently, I mean sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, and sometimes it works but later, it shows I am connected and yet I cannot access the data (but I can save files to it as if I am connected, but cannot access new files as if I am not). So I broke down and restarted and, like I say, it is inconsistent. But I decided to try accessing the server as follows. Instead of opening a finder window, I just went to the finder application “Go” then “connect to server” and then entered smb://mso.emsblaw.com. It finds the server, asks me for credentials, I enter them, and then a different icon appears in my finder window sidebar, under locations, it has what looks like a computer screen (sort of) and it says mso.emsblaw.com. the connection is consistent and reliable and I won’t drop me unless I physically disconnect. Everything works great. I am happy to keep using the reliable method. Back with OS Lion or Leopard or something, this was the way I would do it. so it is no big deal to start doing it that way again. But I thought I should tell you about the problem in case it is a symptom of something bad. You know what they say, if it ain’t broke…. -- Shandor S. Badaruddin Moriarity & Badaruddin, PLLC 736 South 3rd Street West Missoula, Montana 59801-2514 Telephone: 406 728 6868 Facsimile: 406 728 7722 Email: [email protected] www.emsblaw.com

The Go -> Connect to server ... method is the only one I use and the only one that I tell folks to use. I'm always surprised when people browse to a server name to connect. But I'm also the type of person that shudders when someone needs goto a well known site like apple.com, but then starts by Google searching it instead of just typing apple.com. The icon you're seeing is the generic icon for a "Windows" server. You're getting it because you're connecting via smb to a 10.11.6 computer and SMB was not yet deprecated. SMB should be just fine for your file sharing, but we may want to upgrade your server to a more modern OS 10.13.6 or possibly even all the way up to 10.15.4. There have been a lot of fixes and improvements to Apple's SMB server between 10.11 and now. However you could also (and I'd probably recommend) just connect to afp://mso.emsblaw.com instead of smb://mso.emsblaw.com. It'll use Apple's older file sharing protocol and it will likely be the most stable. As well as give you the regular computer icon.

I will use the afp protocol and let you know if there is a problem. Like a say, smb has been working great. I am sure afp will be fine. And if it aint broke… -- Shandor S. Badaruddin Moriarity & Badaruddin, PLLC 736 South 3rd Street West Missoula, Montana 59801-2514 Telephone: 406 728 6868 Facsimile: 406 728 7722 Email: [email protected] www.emsblaw.com From: peet non emergency  Reply-To: peet non emergency  Date: Monday, May 4, 2020 at 3:07 PM To:  Subject: server (message id: 25152509)