Error -36 and Data Loss in Mac

When you attempt to connect with Windows server or Samba using Mac OS X 10.4 installed computer, you may receive Error -36. This problem occurs after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4 from Mac OS X 10.3.x, when you connect to the Windows (SMB/CIFS) server or Samba.

The Windows (SMB/CIFS) server or Samba includes the servers that operate upon Microsoft Windows and other computer operating system, which use Samba for the SMB/CIFS services.

When you fail to establish a connection with the corresponding Windows server, you encounter the below give error message:

“The Finder cannot complete the operation because some of the data in smb://........ Could not be read or written. (Error

code -36).”

After this error message, when you check the error Console (/Applications/Utilities/), you would come across the following error message:

“mount_smbfs: session setup phase failed”

All these situations result into the inability of your Mac system to connect to the server and perform the required operations.

Grounds of the trouble

The problem has been encountered after upgrading to the Mac OS X 10.4; it means that problem is with your client computer, not with the server. The problem could be un-mountable hard drive, system file damage, or incomplete up-gradation.

At this point in time, it becomes extremely important to work around this problem as soon as possible. As all of these problems are related to the operating system or other system resources, you need to format the primary partition of your hard drive and reinstall the operating system.

Reinstalling the operating system will put a fresh copy of all the system files and these problems will not occur in future. But it also has a downside. The formatting of hard drive would remove all the data from your hard drive and will put you in need of data recovery Mac.

Data recovery Mac can be carried out easily and quickly using the third party applications, known as Mac data recovery software. Mac recovery software are generally very powerful and are applicable in most of the cases of Mac data loss. These data recovery Mac solutions are made available from a number of data recovery companies, you should always go for the best one like Macintosh Data Recovery.