My SO has a MacBook, and I thought no sweat, I'm sure I can just autofs or something onto the NAS so that the photo storage is always there.
I was wrong. Why dies it have to be such a pain? So clunky, so unreliable.
My issue wasn't SMB, but automounting the share. As in, turn on wireless, the share is available.
I'm coming from Linux and am pretty clueless with MacOS.