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Problem
You’ve recently updated your Mac OS X to Mavericks version 10.9.1:
… and noticed that if you attempt to map a SMB share on a Active Directory file server via:
smb://<ipAddress or Name>
You would receive the authentication challenge prompt:
… credentials would be accepted:
… but selecting a volume to mount would shake the window without mapping the drive and you are unable to proceed further:
Solution
A bit of searching through the internet (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5467191) indicate that the new SMB2 implementation in Mac OS X to Mavericks has compatibility issues with various file storage devices so the workaround is to map the drive as a cifs share:
cifs://<ip or name of server>