Is that feature available for erver 2008 also?
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Browse All TopicsI have a windows server 2008 file server that currently has a network share that all other windows computers can use. I need to give differnet macs the ability to also connect to that share. However when trying to connect to the share using smb, it cannot see the proper share folders. I was able to get it to a login request and used a regular domain account to login. After the login was complete the Mac said that it couldn't mount the share. Going to the same address on a Windows XP workstation I was able to get to the share just fine. Is this a domain issue, or a permissions issue on the share?
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I'm not 100% on this since I don't have access to a 2008 server at the moment but here is the path it should be under, I'm confident you'll find it:
on the server, go to Administrator tools > Domain Controller Security Policy > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > and set Microsoft network client: Digitally sign communications (always) Security Setting: enabled to disabled
It's on the Vista box here so I assume it's on the server as well.
I found the setting under group management. After setting it to "disabled" and then forcing the GP to update the Mac computers are still not able to see the share folders. I was able to see the DOLAgent, but I'm pretty sure that's not something they are supposed to be messing with. Let me give you a beter idea of the lay out here. We have two domain controlers for redundancy. A file share server that handles the company wide network storage, and a few Macs that all run OS X 10.5.
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by: renazonsePosted on 2009-04-27 at 12:54:57ID: 24245094
this is typically an encryption issue on the server side...in 2003 server there was a group policy change that needed to be made from Enabled to Disabled:
Microsoft network client: Digitally sign communications (always) Security Setting: disabled
I've also seen in places that 10.4 is not compatible but 10.5 is. 10.5 supports the digital encryption that 10.4 doesn't.