I am running a mixed network with both MACs and XP Pro machines connected to SBS Server 2003 SP2.
Last week all the MACs could connect to the server and also any member PC's in the domain with shares.
This week the MAC users can only connect to the SBS PDC server shares. All the domain member-computer shares are unreachable with the following MAC error message:
"The alias "GX620" could not be opened because the original item cannot be found".
GX620 is the machine name of one of the PCs that has a share I am trying to get connected to. SBS is running services for Macintosh, and I restarted the service in my troubleshooting.
There have been no IP address changes, no additions or deletions to the domain, no changes of any kind as far as I can tell...
The MACs are running OS ver. 10.3.9 with Darwin 7.9. There is no MAC server on the network, just workstations.
I went through and checked forums and tried disabling the "digitally sign communications always" policy which changed nothing.
Does anyone have any different approaches to this problem?
I am going back to the client site today, and I plan on testing two other things a colleague suggested.
ipconfig/flushdns (on GX620)
restart networking service
ipconfig/registerdns
This might help but I'm not optimistic. Since I can ping from MAC to the server by IP, I am also going to see if I can ping by machine name, but I have little faith that will work either.
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