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Mac OS X Clients Unable to Connect to Shared Volume on Windows 2003 Server

Asked by MutleyFDI in Windows 2003 Server, Mac OS X, Appletalk

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Have had a Macintosh/Windows file share running smoothly for all users (Mac and PC) on a Windows 2003 server for over a year now.  Two days ago the server was abruptly powered off (user disconnected power cord instead of USB cable...duh!) and, after restarting, none of the Mac users are able to connect to the server while all PC users see all shared folders without problem.
I have tried restarting FSM...no luck; uninstalling/reinstalling FSM...no change; uninstalling/reinstalling AppleTalk protocol...no love there, either.  Deleting/recreating a new Macintosh volume...nothing seems to help.
I've also followed the steps outlined in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/147909/en-us and am coming across this unusual observation: Method 5 in the KB article is an intentional corruption of the Macintosh volume index, then stopping/restarting FSM to force a rebuild of the index.  An error message is supposed to appear in the Event logs when the index is corrupted but none appears.  It's as if the server shows all signs the share is being created (no errors from the Wizard) but it's like it doesn't actually happen.
Short version is I'm desperate now.  Have tried (nearly) everything under the sun but cannot get Mac users reconnected...they are trying to connect to afp://10.10.10.14 (like so many times before) but time out...no username/password prompting (share is set for both Apple Cleartext or Microsoft authentication...have tried changing those parameters, too)...any help would be greatly appreciated.
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