40. (with egg)

Update 01/27/2008

Vantec fixed it! Check out my post about the fix.

Update 12/10/2007

Well, I'm not crazy. Apple has acknoledged that the SMB bug is real and that my bug report has been classified as a duplicate of an existing issue (#5586069, for what it's worth.) It looks like they truly are on the case.

Hello Joseph,

This is a follow up to Bug ID# 5624281. After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being investigated by engineering. This issue has been filed in our bug database under the original Bug ID# 5586069. The original bug number being used to track this duplicate issue can be found in the State column, in this format: Duplicate/OrigBug#.

If you have any additional questions related to this bug or wish to check on status of the original issue, please update this bug report or send an email to devbugs@apple.com, referencing your Bug ID# 5624281.

Thank you for submitting this bug report. We truly appreciate your assistance in helping us discover and isolate bugs.

Best Regards,

Apple Developer Connection
Worldwide Developer Relations

Update 12/03/2007 @ 13:00

Vantec, the manufacturer of my Nexstar LX NAS, has replied to my email about this issue and confirmed that the Nexstar is not completely compatible with Leopard, and they are working on new firmware to fix the problem. Thanks for the response, Vantec!!

Hi,

Our development team is aware of the problem and is working on a new firmware to resolve this issue. Currently we do not have an ETA when the new firmware will be ready, but hopefully within the next few weeks. At the moment, our LX enclosure is not fully supported under Mac OS X 10.5. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused you. If you have any further question, please don't hesitate to ask and we will do our best to answer them.

Regards,

Technical Support

Vantec Thermal Technologies

Original Post on 12/01/2007

Ok, Apple, this is getting outrageous. Seriously. I'm not kidding. Now? Nope, still not kidding. Not now, either.

After upgrading to Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard, I cannot read or write to my Vantec LX NAS drive via SMB -- I can connect to the drive, but it appears empty, even though it is full of wonderful stuff. In English, no more iTunes Library for me unless I pull my drive out of it's hiding place and plug it into my Mac.

This is a fairly well documented problem in Mac discussion forums around the world, including this Apple Discussion thread and this one in Australia's Mac Talk Forums.

Here I am connecting to my NAS's 'vault' folder Notice the processors spiking to 100% and the wireless connection is dead. I think that's NetAuthAgent crashing.

Now, my poor NAS looks empty. So Sad.

I was really disappointed that the 10.5.1 patch that came out about a month after Leopard was released did not fix this. I've finally filed an official bug report about this. I'll post updates as I get them.

Console Output

You might see this Console Output (Applications - Utilities - Console) if you have this same problem. It looks like NetAuthAgent crashes, producing com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] NetAuthAgent(851,0xb0147000) malloc: *** error for object 0x16c4e050: Non-aligned pointer being freed (2) and com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug.

12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] NetAuthAgent(851,0xb0147000) malloc: *** error for object 0x16c4e050: Non-aligned pointer being freed (2) 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] NetAuthAgent(851,0xb0147000) malloc: *** error for object 0x16c4e051: Non-aligned pointer being freed 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] NetAuthAgent(851,0xb0147000) malloc: *** error for object 0x16c4e052: Non-aligned pointer being freed 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] NetAuthAgent(851,0xb0147000) malloc: *** error for object 0x16c4e053: Non-aligned pointer being freed 
12/1/07 10:41:39 AM com.apple.netauth.useragent[851] *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug