Sequoia / Synology - Mounting Shares Issues

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Sequoia / Synology - Mounting Shares Issues

Hi,

MacStudio on Sequoia 15.1.1 connected via network to Synology DS920+. I have multiple shares on the Synology. For purposes of this question, I'll limit to these two:

1) smb://NAS1/Time Machine

2) smb://NAS1/NetBackup

The Time Machine share is configured on the Synology as a "Time Machine" share which has certain properties. I also have a user account USR1 with admin authority on that NAS that has access to only this share and has a limited quota of 400 GB. The intention here is that the USR1 will be used for time machine backups by MacStudio1, Time Machine will not see the other shares, and will not use more than 400 GB of space on the NAS for time machine backups.

The NetBackup share has a number of things in it, but for simplicity I'll mention my Music library is there and another directory use as a pass through buffer to share data between this and other systems. There is a user account USR2 that has access to only this share.

Using Finder> Go> Connect to Server, I mounted the two shares with hte addresses:

smb://USR1@NAS1/Time Machine

smb://USR2@NAS1/NetBackup

The problem I have is that if I open finder and look at Locations, I have:

MacStudio1:

Machintosh HD

NetBackup. (shows mounted)

Network

Time Machine (shows mounted)

If I look in NetBackup or Time Machine, it shows directoreis, but doesn't show who I'm connected as (e.g. USR1 or USR2).

If I look in Network, it shows NAS1, and if I look in that it shows Connection Failed. (connect as...).

In Finder> Settings>

General> I have External disks and Connected Servers checked.

SideBar> I have MacStudio1, Hard disks, external disks, Bonjour computers, and Connected Servers checked under locations.

How do I get the shares to show in the Finder navigation and have tht location show me what user ID was used to do the mount?

Mac Studio, macOS 15.1

Posted on Nov 26, 2024 10:36 PM

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ric982 Author

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Nov 30, 2024 11:14 AM in response to ric982

So looks like the Time Machine share dismounted in the last day or so.

When I used "favorites" to mount "USR1@NAS1/Time Machine" I now see in Finder that location NAS1 has both shares under it and NAS1 is connected as USR2. Seems Sequoia doesn't want to leave the two shares mounted with different user IDs?

Trying a different tack to workaround:

My Time Machine backups on NAS1 have grown to 696 GB because I was using USR2 to connect to server for a while (no quota on USR2). I'm going to copy the Time Machine backup files to another folder on the NAS1 (temporarily keep history until I feel I can delete), put a 400 GB quite on the Time Machine share file and delete the current files. Now whether I'm connected with USR1 or USR2, the shared folder is limited to 400 GB.
May need to eventually just use USR2 to connect to both shares if can't get Sequoia to leave them in place. I started having the USR1 mount issue on Ventura, and that's when I started using USR2 for Time Machine which led to the quota issue.
Will regroup on the share mount issue after I've fixed the quota issue.

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