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Mac Can no Longer Connect to one of our servers

We are running Active Directory on Windows 2003 R2. We are running Mac OS X. We have bound our macs to the domain using the Directory Access utility. This was all working fine until one day all of our macs suddenly couldn't connect to a particular server that they were able to connect to before. They are being authenticated on our domain controller, but are being denied access to a shared folder that any PC user can access. If these same users jump onto a terminal server, or a PC, they can access the folder without a problem. Below are the error messages I get from the Mac console when I try to access the share. Oh also, when I try to access the share, it does ask for a username and password. I've even typed in the administrator username and password, but it doesn't matter. If we try to access this folder from a share, we get denied permission.


mount_smbfs: error from NetrShareEnum call: exception = 382312522
mount_smbfs: tree connect phase failed: syserr = Permission denied
mount_smbfs: could not login to server MCKDATA: syserr = Permission denied
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Two options to try:

1. Allow the mac to send clear text passwords, explaind here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301580

2. Allow your Windows machine to accept packets that are not digitaly signed
Change this key at the server to 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters\requiresecuritysignature

Did you by any chance upgrade the server just before the problem happened.

You may want to download a trial of ADmitMac and try that. It sorts out incompatablilty problems with Mac/Windows Server.

Gileze33
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No. We didn't perform any upgrades to ther server. It's already a brand new box, but everything was working. We have another program we might try. It looks like the server doesn't think that our macs are using a secure enough protocol.
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Well I can't say that this fixed the problem because we worked around this, but the best comment here is probably from gileze33 and his comments about DAVE and ADmitMaC.
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