I just got a new iMac (M1 & Big Sur). I have a shared hard drive on my router that I've maintained as a shared network drive on the Windows machine I'm replacing. This machine is still connected to the shared drive, and can browse & edit its contents, etc.
I got my iMac connected to the share on the first try, using smb://192.168.1.1/ShareName. I know the IP address is correct - it's the IP for the router, and it's what works for the mapped drive on the Windows machine.
After I rebooted, I can't connect to the shared drive. It shows the 'There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.1.1". message.
This is a pain to diagnose, especially with a brand new computer (and I'm switching back to Mac after 5y on Windows). I can see the server in my Recent Items under the Apple menu. I just don't get it what the change would have been after reboot; all I've been doing is installing programs and copying files.
I did see this question and tried the enable Netbios suggestion, which didn't work either before or after another restart.
I'm stumped.
Router is whatever comes with Spectrum (RAC2V1S). The shared drive is shockingly reliable, way more than my previous router (which was a Netgear R7000). Hard drive is formatted as NTFS.
– Chez Ballou Jul 16 '21 at 16:25