Lion OS X & Buffalo Link Station AppleShare Issue

I have recently upgraded to Lion OS X on my late 2009 24″ iMac. The first thing I have noticed is my iMac unable to connect to my 2TB Buffalo Link Station Network Attached Storage (NAS) anymore. My iMac was able to see the Link Station but it failed to authenticate. After digging around for a few minutes, I figured out Lion OS X may change something with the AFP protocol since I can connect to the NAS by SMB or turn off security on AFP.

I don’t have a solution yet but my current workaround is disabling security with my NAS. It is not a big problem for me at home since no one else is using the NAS but only me. However, I can see it could be an issue for small business, that is using the Buffalo Link Station for sharing files within the office.

P.S.: I also found out Aaron Thorne has a fixed for the issue. I haven’t tried it yet. Please let me know if you try it and work.

As for my solution, please following the steps below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Login to your Buffalo NAS via the web browser. For my Buffalo, I put in http://192.168.1.50 on my Chrome web browser.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select Shared Folders & Shared Folders Setup on the left navigation bar. You should be able to see a list of folders on the NAS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, select the folder that you want to change the sharing settings. I try not use SMB/Samba at home so I have Windows disabled on Shared Folder Support. In order to disable security (everyone can read/write), in the Access Restrictions section, I put Access Restrictions from Enable to Disable. Make sure you click on the Apply button at the button!!! Repeat this step for all the folders you saw from the previous step.