Thanks for the replies. When I got back to my office I checked out Apple's support web site and found that the problem of losing the connections is apparently well known (particularly in the Panther releases). They had a fix which simply used the "connect to server" feature of finder. Specifically using the IP address and the share name successfully mounted the share but the bottom line is that there is a bug in there somewhere.
-Alex P.S. The "connect to server" target is specified as smb://servername/sharename and I simply plugged in the IP address of the target Windows box. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hewitt Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "GNHLUG" <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Samba problem? Macintosh (Panther) can't see Windows PCs > Hewitt Tech wrote: > > >I was asked to look into a client's problem where they have a mixed > >environment of fairly new Macs and Windows XP boxes. Apparently a network > >peer to peer sharing setup was done and one particular iMac was happily > >sharing it's files and accessing Windows XP shares for several days. Then > >the Mac got rebooted and after that although the XP box could read shares > >from the Mac, the Mac can't seem to see the XP box. > > > I'm not sure whether it is relevant in your case, but, I recently solved > a problem with Macs connecting > to a Windows 2003 server due to SMB signing. I haven't verified whether > SMB signing is the default > now for Windows XP. It is possible that some update may have enabled it > on the XP boxes, or it > got disabled on the Mac. > > -- > Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951 > *** Technical Support for over a Quarter Century > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
