MacOS 14.5 Cannot open network drive

[smportis]

I have a network drive alias mounted on my desktop and in the volumes folder. I have it mounted as smp://DS1621Main/Photo

Finder | Go | Connect to Server... | smb://DS1621Main/photo | Selcect "Connect" button.

Adds it to my "Mac Studio" location in the Finder.

Open XnView MP 1.71 64-bit. Go to Volumes, see the share listed as "Photos" with a ">" next to it. Click it, ">" goes away and only the ".." parent directory is listed.

This is a Synology DS1621+ drive.

What am I missing here?

Network drive mounted:

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Opening in Mac Finder:

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Viewing in XnView

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Clicking it - nothing

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[xnview]

do you have authorized folder access in MacOS prefs?

[smportis]

Hell yea! that was it.

Typically there is a notification the first time you access something and don't have permission on MacOS. Wonder if it's the OS that triggers that or the application?