My trueNAS is up, I can access jellyfin from the TV, i can see my smb shares from both my phone and iPad, but my laptop just can’t see anything.
Using the webUI I can log in and see it is up and access some the apps, but nothing on the laptop’s file manager. I have restarted the laptop multiple times, tried restarting the internet and restarted the truenas system, all with no luck.
I am running 26.0.0-Beta2 and macOS 15.6.1
To connect to an SMB share on macOS, you use CMD+K from Finder. From there, you enter the following in the dialog box:
smb://<your_truenas_ip>
This should prompt your for your SMB user’s name and password. Are you able to do this and browse via Finder?
Are your wired network and wireless network on different subnets? SMB ‘advertising’ on a network is typically done via broadcast, so only reaches client devices in the same subnet.
Your mention that your phone and iPad can see these, so it seems the TrueNAS is configured properly. So a quick-and-easy thing to check is, is your laptop on the same subnet? If not, that should explain why it won’t automatically appear under Locations → Network.
As @nihil2040 said, connect manually and let us know if that works. You can then also pin a share in Finder, which (as long as you save credentials), will automatically reconnect when you use that link.
There seems to be a bug with SMB network discovery in version 26.0.0-Beta2, which will be fixed in version 26.0.0-Beta3.
Are you intentionally running the beta for some reason?
The beta version is mostly intended for those who want to help test the new version.
Your description casually mentions the beta but then says nothing about trying to roll back or similar, so I suspect you may not realise that the beta is not intended for casual users.
The current version deemed as stable and for general use is 25.10.4.
I’m on 26.0.0-Beta and have been using the Finder method Go → connect to server → SMB URL and have no issues. I’ve beend doing it remotely though over a wireguard VPN session so I haven’t noticed whether or not the shares are shown via the Network discovery, I’ll check. BTW I’m on macOS 26.5.2 Tahoe.
Yep — that’ll be the controlling factor in service discovery.
Glad to hear it’s working through direct addressing. On my systems I’ll also drag a remote volume into my Finder sidebar, and take advantage of bookmark resolution to mount favorite shares.
Yeah, I checked. The finder Network tab doesn’t show any SMB shares to my NAS. However, I’m remote from the NAS using a wireguard VPN connection to the Network my NAS is on. I don’t think SMB announcements traverse the VPN connection. Anyway, the direct SMB URL connection is working fine.
Hmm. Once I’ve connected using ⌘K the connected server is explicitly listed. Are you saying the NAS is there, with a Disconnect button, but its list of shares is empty?
FWIW when I said “drag a remote volume” I meant a mounted one. That was one of the best new features of the Alias Manager in System 7.0 
and it’s kept with us into today’s bookmarks.[1]
Though I find that Finder sidebar bookmarks go stale more often. The trigger might be trying to resolve one at a moment when there’s no suitable network path. ↩︎
I’m saying the SMB server is not shown at all because I’m not on the subnet and I don’t receive the SMB advertisement packets. After I mount the share with CMD-k the SMB server is then shown. If I were on the same subnet, I’d see the SMB server whether any share from that server is mounted or not because I would have received the SMB advertisement packets
hey, thank you!
This solved it, had a couple of restarts and seems to keep working 
