smb problems

pedz · #1 February 26th, 2008, 09:19 AM

I'm inside a large corporation trying to mount a disk via smb. It does not mount and I'm trying to understand the instructions. The corporate page that tells PC users how to mount this volume talk about "the password can not be encrypted". And they explain (in PC language) how to mount without encrypting the password.

Does the Mac have such an option?

**ScottW** · #2 February 26th, 2008, 09:27 AM

Question is, have you tried to do it the normal way you do on the Mac to see if it works? If not, you will want to go to the SMB share via Go -> Connect to Server -> then type in: smb://yoursmbserver/share

Does that work to connect or have you done that and your trying to take the next step?

Scott

macbri · #3 February 26th, 2008, 09:30 AM

Create a text file /etc/nsmb.conf containing the following 2 lines:

Code:

[default]
minauth=none

You might need to restart, but it's a while since I did this... This works on OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

pedz · #4 February 26th, 2008, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macbri

Create a text file /etc/nsmb.conf containing the following 2 lines:

Code:

[default]
minauth=none

You might need to restart, but it's a while since I did this... This works on OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

That worked. No reboot required. I'm using Leopard 10.5.2.

Note toScottW: yes. I was using Connect to Server and not getting authenticated.

Thanks guys.