First Published: 6/18/2015       Last Modified: 6/18/2015      Last Modified by: LL    Article ID:161

Symptoms: When doing file transfer from one computer to another through Samba service, OSX Finder can not complete the operation and would throw an error code: -36.

Summary: This may be related to Samba service software, driver stack or permission in Mac OSX.

Products Affected:   HDPro & HDPro2, HDOne, CalDigit RAID Card, HDElement, CalDigit VR & mini, FireWire VR, S2VR HD, S2VR Duo, AV Drive & AV Pro, SuperShare, HDPro24, T3 RAID, T4 TBT2 RAID

When you use Samba protocol in Finder to access files located in the storage connecting to a server or another computer, you may experience an error: (Error code -36) Please use one of the following options to access your data over the TCP/IP network. 1. OS X Server: When saving files on SMB shares, the permissions might be changed so that only the owner can read or write: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203574 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201416 2. Apple AFP Protocol: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204445 3. CIFS (Samba1) Protocol: Instead of using smb, you can try cifs protocol. For example, smb://192.168.101.1, you can replace smb with cifs, the connection becomes cifs://192.168.101.1 4. Try the newer OS update.

Additional Information: Samba copy fails after upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.3 Error code -36 OS X 10.9 Mavericks Workaround for SMB

Keywords : Error code -36, Smb, Samba