Name Lengths

[Joe]

When I right click on the name in the shared folders section of the computer management section - all I get is a "what's this?" option...

I think I will have to take some screen dumps from the server!


Stephen Marsh

It's not under Shared Folders. It's further down under Users and Groups. Click the plus sign to the left and then click Users. In the right pane you will see the list of Windows 2003 users. You must connect using one of the user accounts.

 

[Joe]

Here is a screen shot of where the users are listed on the Windows Server.

 

[pcmodem]

You have to be in the 'Users and Groups > Users' Section of Computer Management and right click on a user there.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Thanks again Joe, I think that we are narrowing things down!

It is Friday night here now, so it will be a couple of days before I can get back to this.

Again, thank you for your help, I will resume this thread next week.


Stephen Marsh

 

[Sick HP]

Sorry I misunderstood you, I thought you were connecting to the server like in this first screen shot I'm att: this will not mount SMB you have to browse to it.

Also when you create your user from new make sure you lock the user password and lock password never expires options is a good idea.

-Dan

 

[Joe]

You can connect to smb shares by either browsing or using Connect to server and entering the command smb://computername

 

[Sick HP]

You can connect to smb shares by either browsing or using Connect to server and entering the command smb://computername

That was my understanding when our system was installed. I was told to mount my alias by browsing to the server rather than to search to it, maybe this was just the way the trainer preferred.

Maybe I'm missing something here but there are no mac and win shares it's all win at least on our system.

-Dan

 

[Joe]

We also do not have any Macintosh shares on our Prinergy servers but we do on a couple of our old proofing servers. You can either set the shares up as either Windows, Macintosh, or both. Whomever set yours up just did the Windows ones. Although if you have any version of Windows server newer than Windows Server 2003 you can't set up Macintosh (AFP) shares because Microsoft no longer includes it in their server product line. Unless you buy a 3rd party solution like Extreme Z-IP.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Networking Hell...

Networking Hell...

OK, I still can't get anything to work!

To recap:

AFP works fine, I can log in and read/write files, the only issue is file name lengths.

There is a SMB share enabled.

This mac is set-up as a user of the SMB share and there is a password. I can't log on, using either CMD-K or CMD-SHIFT-K (Browse).

The user does have all permissions active.

I have made a new user with a simple username and passwod with no caps - with the same lack of success as the existing user, I can't get in via SMB (EDIT: AFP works with this new user and with the old user).

NOTE: One major difference in our MS Windows 2003 Server from the help instructions given so far - there is no "Users" section in Computer Management. There is a separate "Server Management - Manage Users" option which I have been using instead...


Best,

Stephen Marsh

 

[Joe]

It sounds like your server is setup to use Active Directory Users instead of the normal users and groups. Still shouldn't make a difference as far as I know. I have a Windows 2000 server that uses Active Directory Users and they can mount SMB shares. CAn you connect via SMB from other Macs? How about connecting to that server from another Windows computer?