[X4U] connecting to a windows file share?

[Cover, Chris]

2003 servers are indeed accessible from OS X. What is NOT accessible from OS
X are win 2003 DFS volumes. OS X cannot resolve where DFS volumes are
pointing. You need to get on a PC and see what the volume reference is and
connect directly to that.


On 12/14/04 4:22 PM, "Russell McGaha" <RussellMcGaha at direcway.com> wrote:

>> Is the PC volume they are trying to access from the Mac on a server or are
>> they trying to access the C drive of a particular machine? Are they using a
>> Windows 2003 server? Pre Win 2003 servers are accessible from OSX but 2003
>> or higher are not without specialized software.
>  
> Richard, et all; 
>     This is the third time I've tried to reply to this post.  My previous two
> tries have not shown up in  the archives as yet, so I'm trying again.
>     They're trying to access a windows 2000 server serving multible
> directories.  I think I just need to get the correct SMB syntax to include the
> username and password in the url call; should it be in the form of
> "smb://Serverename/Directoryname:username:password" ?
> 
> Russell
> 
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