smb big sur

I've got an iMac running the latest 'Big Sur' public beta, and I've got a couple of Apple TV's. I'm not sure at exactly which point this happened, but I've lost the ability to use Home Sharing. I've tried logging my accounts on/off the Apple TV's. I can AirPlay from the iMac to the Apple TV's and play either video or music. If I use the 'Computers' App on the Apple TV, I can see the music and video, but I can't play it. Music gives no error message, it just doesn't start. Video gives some generic message (Away from home right now) indicating it can't play the video. If I use the Music app on the Apple TV, I can play my library fine. Any ideas on this?

Hello, Im seeing that the Big Sur 11.2 Beta 2 was released yesterday, but for some reason my MacBook is saying The requested version of macOS is not available. and I am stuck on 11.1 Beta 1 – Which sucks! I am on a Late 2013 MBP. Anyone else experiencing this or know why I was able to install Beta 1 but Beta 2 is not available for me?

Hey, I use my AirPods Pro on my Mac with Big Sur. If I connect my AirPods, the mac set the sound balance every time to the right. And I like the new feature that the AirPods connect to the next apple product but if I hear music on the mac this is annoying. Disconnect and must do reconnect to the mac and start the music again.... Can someone relate to this problem?

Whenever I annotate by highlighting something in Preview, the releasing of the mouse (to stop highlighting) prompts preview to change the spot I'm at in the pdf. For example, after highlighting on page 4, preview sends me back to page 3. It's a huge hassle to constantly have to find my spot again when I'm reading/highlighting a document. Any fixes? MacOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Macbook Pro 15 inch 2016 with touchbar

Whenever I run the software update pane, it tells me that it failed to check for updates. I'm using MacOS Big Sur Beta 1. Anyone else with the same issue?

Hi! I'm currently trying to update my Mac software to Beta 4 of Catalina. In Preferences > Software Update, my only option is Big Sur. My first attempt was to remove the beta profile, go to the downloads section and reinstall the Catalina beta profile. After a restart, still it only shows the option to update to Big Sur. Is this a bug? Any ideas? PS: No, I don't want Big Sur.

I am working on a macOS app that involves remote notifications. In my app delegate appDidFinishLaunching, I simply call NSApplication.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications() I then get one of two callbacks in the app delegate, either didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken or didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError. This has worked fine forever in previous versions. In Big Sur, this does not seem to work at all. I call the registerForRemoteNotifications, but I never get either callback called. My hypothesis was that this is because of the new app lifecycle (which is where I originally tried this out). I built a small test app with AppKit app delegate lifecycle. It is equally broken there. What gives? Why cannot I register for remote notifications in Big Sur?

macOS Big Sur doesn't recognize my Kindle. It is not the Kindle app, it's my kindle connected with USB. Does anyone have the same problem?

I wanted to ask, does someone know how to find out the blue color from the icon in the big sur folder icon (darker blue – not folder blue)? How do I find out the hex code? Best

So I work some reports with an old java based tool called BIRT, and these libraries uses old JAVA IDE versions because of compatibility. Now I upgrade to Big Sur no old Java IDE 2019, 2018, Photon, Neon are working, and it was fine before the upgrade. Notice that even VirtualBox cannot start VMs.

If you are going to sell your customers on eGPU's by blackmagic in store, why would you not plan on the integration of said eGPU processors via your update to BigSur? I spent over a $1000 on what is now a useless brick of a processing unit. The only solution that BlackMagic and Apple have to offer is to revert my system to Catalina, and Studio 16. Big Sur has been out how long now, and still no support for items you are shlepping in store Apple? Shame on you. Get the fix quick. Your business practices are showing, and I find them offensively grotesque. Keep nickel and diming your customers into oblivion as your quality degrades. I haven't considered going back to windows in decades, but now I am busting out the user manuals. Abandon ship. Apple, what a let down you have become. You used to be the pride and joy of design. Now you are the bane and boon.

I've got a script that calls phone the number highlighted on the screen. It invokes FaceTime to place the call. FaceTime displays a dialog via the Notification Center asking if I want to call the number or cancel. My scripted clicked the Call button. That worked...until Big Sur. Now I get: The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “System Events got an error: Can’t get button 1 of application process Notification Center. Invalid index.” when I run it. I can't show you the pre Big Sur script because I modified it for Big Sur. Yes, not having a backup was dumb. What I'm trying now is: on run {input, parameters} open location tel:// & input & ?audio=yes tell application System Events click button Call of scroll area 1 of window Notification Center of application process Notification Center end tell end run This is just one of the things I tried. Under Big Sur, accessibility Inspector shows that button hierarchy and if I hit