Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

Hi chaps,

I'm having a problem connecting to a Windows SBS 2003 server from any
OS X machines in the office.

Now, I know that you have to turn off digital signing on the SBS box
and this is something that we do as standard. However this doesnt seem
to be the cause of the issue.

When a user hits APPLE+K in finder and enter smb://<server IP> and
hitting connect, they get "Could not connect to the server because the
name or the password is not correct". This happens within about 10
seconds and they do NOT get prompted for a username and password, even
on new machines. There is no cached keychain entry for the server
either.

Normally, the issue with digital signing sees the OSX user being
prompted for a username and password and THEN not being allowed access
to the share. We dont even get that far.

We can however access the share using AFP if we enable Appletalk on
the windows server.

Any suggestions ?

Olly

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