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Re: [OT] Mac help needed



On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Mac is a Powerbook G4 running  OSX10.28

Do you mean 10.2.8 ?

>
>
>
> Windows machines can connect to the share with no problems.
>
>
>
> The MAC can successfully connect to a Windows XP Pro machine but fails
with
> that error when trying to connect to the intended machine running
SBS2003.
> It also fails with the same error trying to connect to a share on my
Vista
> laptop.
>

Are you using the same credentials to connect to both machines?

> We are connecting as SMB://<machinename>/<sharename> and
specifying the
> domain/workgroup and the user as <servername>/<username>
but it just doesn't
> work :-(
>

What happens if you open the share up so that no login is required?

I always connect to samba shares with mine, so not an exact match,
Might be worth a quick trawl of the various Mac news groups/websites
to see if there's a problem with that version of OSX & that version of
windows.

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