I recently went through a lot of issues with macOS and FreeNAS. For SMB shares you can get pretty perfect support by ensuring the share level option called 'VFS

I recently went through a lot of issues with macOS and FreeNAS. For SMB shares you can get pretty perfect support by ensuring the share level option called 'VFS Objects' has catia, fruit, aio_pthread and streams_xattr. It's in the official docs too if you wanted more information about it. https://doc.freenas.org/9.10/sharing.html https://doc.freenas.org/9.10/sharing.html