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After countless searches, and many hairs pulled out, I'm being forced to come to the conclusion that the SMB authentication in Lion is borked! The only way I can access my Amahi shares from my MacBook Pro with Lion on it is to use Guest access. I can access the same shares from various Windows boxes without any problems and can authenticate users properly.

Has anyone else had issues with Lion and Amahi, or even better, found a solution?

Am I really the only person having problems with this?

I can authenticate from any Windows box with various different usernames, but from my Mac I can't connect at all unless it's as a Guest, and the shares allow Guest access.

From your Mac, do you get prompted for a user name and password?

Absolutely. The authentication box comes up and I enter in my username and password (which work when I connect from a Windows box), however the box shakes indicating that it can't authenticate.

I'm having nearly the same problem. My HDA is not appearing by default as it was previously with Snow Leopard. Now, in lion, I must go -> connect to server -> smb://hda. Then I'm logged in by default to "admin" and cannot change the user. My current thinking is it's an issue with keychain as my admin credentials are stored here, but I have nothing to back this up. Any advice on how to change user in Lion would be appreciated.

I've found a fix that works for me.

If you're lucky it will suffice to change the samba port from 139 to 445 in the avahi service config file. Found the tip after I upgraded netatalk, here...
http://tob.io/post/8383529336/fix-avahi ... -os-x-lion

The Avahi config-files reside in But I started by upgrading netatalk to 2.2.1 as AFP 3.3 support is needed for time machine and lion (according to netatalk readme) and it's available from 2.2.0.

I couldn't find an upgrade for fedora 14 so I made my first ever rpm!
It works for me but I can't give any guarantees... You've been warned.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/159296/netatalk ... 4.i686.rpm

To upgrade, go to download dir and, as root, run: I got a warning because there already were an AppleVolumes.default file. No worries.
"warning: /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default created as /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default.rpmnew"

Good luck!
Amahi and Mac is still the way to go!