Mapping drive in MaxOSX

[Chintan Desai]

Hey guys,

I have a problem where I am trying to connect a shared drive on a
Windows 2000 Server using the Mac OSX; however, it is not working. Do I
need to do anything special? It is giving me a unable to connect
error. Hass anyone heard of this before? Any help would be
appriciated. Thanks in advance.


Chintan

 

[William M. Smith]

Hey guys,

I have a problem where I am trying to connect a shared drive on a
Windows 2000 Server using the Mac OSX; however, it is not working. Do I
need to do anything special? It is giving me a unable to connect
error. Hass anyone heard of this before? Any help would be
appriciated. Thanks in advance.

Hi Chintan!

From your description I can't quite tell which way you're trying to make the
connection. I believe you're trying to connect to a Windows 2000 Server from
Mac OS X.

The version of Mac OS X is important.

Mac OS X 10.1 introduced the ability to connect via SMB, but you couldn't
browse a Windows network. You had to know the exact IP address or name of
the server and the name of the share as well.

Mac OS X 10.2 introduced the ability to browse Windows networks as well as
connect via SMB.

I'm suspecting you may be trying to connect to the Windows server via AFP
and it may not have the Mac File Services installed.

In either case, when you're trying to connect to the server, make sure the
connect string on your Mac starts with "smb://servername". If you know the
share it will look like "smb://servername/sharename". If you don't know
servername, the you can use "smb://ipaddress" or
"smb://ipaddress/sharename".

Hope this helps! bill

 

[Jeremy]

I have actually got it to work using the admin account on
the Mac machine...but if you are trying to map it, you
have to re-supply the mac admin account every time you
reboot. the admin account will allow you to access it
though.