Catalina ends support for NAS...anybody going to miss it?

[Jeff Kilgroe]

HP, Dell, etc.. all do the same thing. "We do not support third party..." It's really just their way of avoiding any responsibility. Unless you buy both the workstation and the server from them, they won't help you get them to work together. And 90%++ you won't find a tech support person with the knowledge or experience to go far enough off-script to truly help.

 

[Bob Zelin]

It was my honor to get Michael Tiemann's QNAP systems working with his iMac Pro and MacBook Pro last night. Never thought I would be able to help someone that smart !
(and if you want to get that PostgreSQL 9.5.4 working on the QNAP - just let me know - I will be ready !).
Bob Zelin

 

[Antony Newman]

Reduser community awesomeness.

AJ

 

[Curtis boggs]

looking at upgrading to Catalina and I have a Synology NAS.

Am I going to encounter connection issues like I've been reading about???

 

[Matt Beardsley]

Hmm.. I didn't realize there was an issue and have been happily running Catalina for a while without any ill effect on my Synology NAS setup, RAID boxes, or even LTO6 archive setup... Catalina seems solid!

 

[Bob Zelin]

This is how to resolve the Catalina "disconnecting" issue from NAS systems. This has nothing to do with QNAP, or Synology or any other brand. This is an Apple issue, and this is the fix.
This fix was written by Apple, but it is "hidden" and their own tech support doesn't seem to know it. (crazy - right ?).
this is as of 5/21/2020. I have verified that this works with multiple clients for the past 30 days.

On the Mac running macOS 10.15 - open terminal and type this in
nvram boot-args
you will get an error message
now, copy and paste the line below, and put this into terminal, and hit return - it will ask for your password - you will not see anything when you type in your password

sudo nvram boot-args="serverperfmode=1 $(nvram boot-args 2>/dev/null | cut -f 2-)"

now, once again, type in nvram boot-args
you will now see this -
boot-args. serverprefmode=1

reboot your Mac.
You will no longer get disconnects

Bob Zelin

 

[Michael Tiemann]

Sweet!

 

[Matthew Riggieri]

THANK YOU BOB! you are such a good member of the community!

This is how to resolve the Catalina "disconnecting" issue from NAS systems. This has nothing to do with QNAP, or Synology or any other brand. This is an Apple issue, and this is the fix.
This fix was written by Apple, but it is "hidden" and their own tech support doesn't seem to know it. (crazy - right ?).
this is as of 5/21/2020. I have verified that this works with multiple clients for the past 30 days.

On the Mac running macOS 10.15 - open terminal and type this in
nvram boot-args
you will get an error message
now, copy and paste the line below, and put this into terminal, and hit return - it will ask for your password - you will not see anything when you type in your password

sudo nvram boot-args="serverperfmode=1 $(nvram boot-args 2>/dev/null | cut -f 2-)"

now, once again, type in nvram boot-args
you will now see this -
boot-args. serverprefmode=1

reboot your Mac.
You will no longer get disconnects

Bob Zelin

 

[Matthew Riggieri]

Hey Bob, not sure if this really works. Still having issues with Catalina SMB connections

 

[Martin Deisting]

All,

Although the fix by Bob Zelin seems to be aimed for servers, it is probably not for Time Machine users like me, I have tried the fix to overcome lost connections with the TM share on my Synology NAS. This was successful and I have not experienced problems with TM for over 1 week now.
Many thanks Bob for sharing!

Cheers
Martin

PS - I took the liberty to mention the fix on the Apple Support Forum also.

 

[Michael Tiemann]

I just saw this note attached to the latest QNAP firmware update (QTS 4.5.1.1456 build 20201015):

[Fixed Issues]
- Users could not reconnect to the NAS via Thunderbolt after restarting macOS.