Carl Hutzler’s Blog

I have an Infrant ReadyNAS 1100 unit and I can’t say enough great things about it. But yesterday I had a very strange issue. After having it running for quite some time, I upgraded all the drives to 1TB drives. I first backed-up all the data and then went with 4 new 1TB drives. I went through the whole process of formatting the drives, setting up shares and permissions, and copying the data back to the system. All was great!

Then after a reboot yesterday (installed an add-on), I found that I could only mount some shares on the device via AFP. I could mount everything via SMB…but AFP mounting two of my 6 shares would hang my OS X machine for a long time….10’s of minutes. I thought the issue might have been the add-on I just installed. But Infrant does not allow you to uninstall add-ons (bad bad bad).

So I was sort of stuck. I tried a few things but nothing seemed to help. The console logs on the Mac were full of some strange messages but even that did not tell me the issue even after Google searching the errors.

I eventually stumbled on what I think was the issue. There seemed to be some sort of KeyChain password issue. I can’t say for sure that I even understand what it was that made me think of it, but I decided to clear out all KeyChain entries for my NAS unit…both IP address and DNS entries. Everything.

Once I did that, everything was happy again.

Why’d it happen after that reboot when I had many other reboots along the way? Who knows. I think this was an obscure Mac OS X bug myself. But if this helps someone out there solve this issue, great.