And same exact experience on mounting shares by the way. When setting up my new NAS last week, I ended up booting a Windows PC to check if Samba was correctly

And same exact experience on mounting shares by the way. When setting up my new NAS last week, I ended up booting a Windows PC to check if Samba was correctly configured because macOS kept throwing weird inscrutable errors semi randomly. I know it's a terrible protocol but it certainly became worse on macOS on the past 3 years-ish.