I see the servers, but trying to connect to them does 2 things:
        1. a new window opens
        2. finder goes busy and then a connection error dialog pops up stating 
that the protocol in use by the server is not supported.

apparently this is a known problem and it was fixed in mt. lion.

-eric

On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:

> I guess I'm not clear on what the problem is. I'm on OSX 10.7.5 and to 
> connect to a windows share I just do command-K to connect to a server and 
> then use the smb://servername.blah.com/folder/path nomenclature to connect to 
> where I want to go. It prompts for my name and password and then the drive 
> appears on my desktop just like any other. Is this not the case for you?
> 
> CB
> 
> On 10/29/12 5:56 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
>> hey guys,
>> 
>> has anyone found a work around to connecting to windows shares from a OS X 
>> Lion client. I seriously need to be able to do this so that I can save 
>> documents to my user account at school. otherwise, its a pain in the a$$ to 
>> have to find the files, place them on a usb stick, unmount it, move it to 
>> the school windows machine and then copy it to my account drive.
>> 
>> I have tried to find information on this via a google search. so far, none 
>> of the solutions are workable here (one app available is not voiceover 
>> usable at all and the other solutions are either unworkable or unsupported). 
>> anyone have any usable solutions that do not involve having to hack the 
>> system files?
>> 
>> -eric
>> 
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