Empty SMB share when connected from Mac

RouterOS General
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Hello everyone!
I’m experiencing the Samba sharing issue in RouterOS, and googling around the Web has not been helpful so far. It goes like this:
I’ve set up a shared SMB folder on my Mikrotik hAP AC2 (ROS 6.43). It is a flash thumb drive formatted as Ext3. The share location is \192.168.88.1\disk3. I allowed guest access with RW support.
I can use this shared folder from a couple of Linux guests which is just fine for me. However, when I connect to this shared folder from mac mini running macOS Catalina, I see no files. The share looks empty (while it is definitely not so).
I’ve tried various options in /etc/nsmb.conf on macOS, but none brought any relief. A small ray of hope appeared after following the advice from here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
I changed Finder network sorting behaviour:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

and after that I was able to see the shared folder’s contents, yet without any thumbnails. I still could not copy anything from it (error -43).

So, please give a clue on where to dig further. Is it because RouterOS and macOS use different versions of Samba? What can I do to access the share from macOS?

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First of all you have a very old software (2018-09-10), upgrade to long-term 6.47.10,
probably after some year, if is a bug the problem, is already solved,
and you lost only time for not have upgraded the RouterBOARD.

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Thanks for this tip, I'll do the upgrade later today! (although not sure if there will be a different SMB service in the newer ROS...)

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Did you manage to fix the issue? I’ve been hitting this problem the whole day without any luck in fixing it.