Recently all our Apple computers (10.4 and 10.5) are unable to browse the shares of our Windows 2003 domain which was working grate for a couple years. Two of these machines are bound to the domain and the others are owned by interns. I've double checked that the Domain Controller Security Policy: Microsoft Network Server: digitally Sign Communications (always) is set to Disabled and double checked the corresponding registry value also set. DNS and reverses seem to be working just fine as I can ping to and from the server from a Mac and resolve IP's on both ends. The event logs in Windows don't indicate anything wrong. The console on my test Mac shows mount_smbfs: negotiate phase failed: syserr = Connection Refused, in which the resultant Googling sends me back to the digitally signed policy.
If I use smbclient on the command line I can connect to the server and list files. Trying to connect to the server using the finder gives me The alias could not be opened. etc. The people using the Mac's can't narrow it down to when this happened, only saying it's been like this for a couple weeks "they think". I'm wondering if this is a side effect of the MS08-067 (out of band) patch released. Looking for ideas from people, or a good Win/Mac/AD list. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
