Thanks for the post, I'm on SP7. I seem to recall some "gotchas" if going to SP8, but I could be wrong. I'll start reading.
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Browse All TopicsProblem is that we are unable to use the CIFS drive mapping from a Windows Vista or 7 client.
To map the CIFS share, we modified the local security policy for Network Security: LAN Manager Authentication Level, and changed it to Send LM & NTLM - Use NTLMv2 if negotiated.
We can then map the CIFS share without a problem. As soon as I start drilling down into the folder structure, it hangs for a couple minutes and eventually returns the error: "Z:\Folder is not accessible. The specified network name is no longer available."
Do this enough times and I can eventually see the files and open the occasional file. But the problem returns and hangs you once again for a few minutes, then returns the same error.
There are no problems accessing a Windows file share. There are no problems accessing the CIFS shares from an XP client.
Any thoughts or experience with this? Thanks!
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by: gurutcPosted on 2009-06-23 at 11:28:44ID: 24694542
Hi,
What SP are you running on the NetWare side?
There's some significant updates to CIFS in SP8. And I believe there's a post SP8 patch for NetWare.
Good Luck,
- gurutc