Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-31 Thread Eric Oyen
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. -

Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I've tested this again today with a less privileged user. As long as the user has, minimum, Read permissions to the SharePoint, then everything works as it should both in Lion and Mountain Lion. If the user does not have proper permissions to the SharePoint, then the errors you mentioned

Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Blouch
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 dri

Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Eric, I found this article from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4829 I'm guessing that you don't have Read permissions to a specific parent folder within the SharePoint you're attempting to access and that's why you're receiving that error. I am a Domain Admin on our Windows Servers so m

Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hmm. That's interesting. It sounds like an issue with something at the Windows end. My test that I did was with Mountain Lion and I'm sure that I did this with Lion as well prior to the upgrade. I'll confirm with Lion when I go back to work tomorrow and let you know. Going back to SL is unn

Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-29 Thread Eric Oyen
this was the method I initially used. However, it didn't work properly. the first problem was that it would see the shares but wouldn't mount them. the second problem was that attempting to mount would result in an error (cannot mount, authentication error. this problem was caused by the session

Re: samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-29 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'm not sure what's broken for you. To connect to an SMB Server, do the following: 1. Go to the Finder. 2. Press cmd-k or up to the Go menu and choose Connect to Server. 3. Enter smb://Server_Name.domain.com If DNS is set up properly, which I expect it is at a University, you shouldn't

samba broken in OS X Lion

2012-10-29 Thread Eric Oyen
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,