On 20/12/2005, at 7:35 PM, John Winters wrote:
Hi,
Are there any experts in the integration of Macs (OS 10.4.n) into a
Windows 2003 Server network with DFS (distributed file services?)
without the need for additional software such as DAVE.
Since moving from OS9 many years ago, I have enjoyed being able to
use my work network with the built in tools of OSX, and not having
to rely on the vagaries of DAVE which used to be very temperamental
and lock up my Mac quite frequently. Things worked well until two
weeks ago when IT "upgraded" the Windows server.
Now:
1) Mail will not pick up my Outlook account, however Entourage
will! Would prefer to only use one mail client if possible
especially as I have a lot of old emails archived in Outlook and is
more easily searched with Spotlight.
2) My network share is visible but "empty" from OSX, however will
work normally (albeit slowly) with DAVE added.
Any OSXperts out there who know how to fix this and could give me
some pointers, or if you make a living out of resolving such
problems, contact me off list with pricing details for your services.
TIA
John
Are you using smb through connect to server (+k) if not try: smb://
[mothership]/Foldername {enter} and follow the requests for passwords
etc. If no success try the actual ip address instead of the server name.
Also 10.4 supposedly uses encrypted passwords for smb and if admin
have set server with old text password this could be an issue.
But it looks like a mount point issue for the invisible files.
Also check if admin have domain set as an Active Directory, if so
then this needs to be configured within OS X apparently
Places to search for help:-
http://www.macosxhints.com
Apple Support discussion boards
and of course google is always a friend although I find alltheweb.com
slightly more specific these days?
HTH
Cheers!
`Rob...
