Can't see all shared drives on W2K server

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djbradster

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I can't figure this one out. I have a small home network with 3 Xp Pro machines and one Mac OSX 10.2.4 machine all having access to a Win2K server machine for file sharing. The Win2K server has many shared drives (about 10), and all of the WinXP machines can see them fine and log into them without problem. The OSX machine, when I "go to server" shows me the IP address of the Win2K server but not it's name. If I try to connect to it, it attempts an SMB connection and fails with an error. If I manually change it to "AFP" instead of SMB, it connects, verifies password and shows me a few of the drives available on the server, but not all of them. I could live with this method if it would show me all the shares, but it doesn't. It used to show me the name of the server and when I clicked on that it would verify password and connect fine using SMB. I think this changed with the upgrade to 10.2.4 from 10.2.3, but not sure. I recently re-formatted and the problem persists with the latest OSX updates. Any ideas how I can correct this?

I hope that all made sense....

Thanks,
Brad Schmidt
 
Do you have a static IP on your Win2k Server? If yes, does your Mac has too? If the answer to both questions is yes, do this:
-Go to your Win2k box, open a DOS prompt and type: "ping x.x.x.x" and press enter (where x.x.x.x is the IP address of your Mac
-If you get some statistics you are fine but if you don't it means that there is a problem with your connection.

Anyways, continue and do this:
-Open Applications/Utilities/Network Utility
-Click at the Ping tab and type there the IP of your Win2k box and then press enter
-If you get some statistics you are fine but if you don't, surely there is a problem either with your network settings or with with your physical connection

Check if cables, hub/switch, etc are firm in their places... Check your network settings on both computers... And if you are 100% that everything are in place restart both systems and wait up to 5 minutes at the most... Connect to Server via OS X and type: "smb://x.x.x.x" where x.x.x.x is the IP of your Win2k box... The alternate method is to let the Mac discover the Win2k box by itself then click on it, etc. After and if you get the connect window fill in correctly your user name, password, etc. then select your shares... You should have in mind that the Win2k box expects you to type its own users logon details...

One thing that puzzles me is that you may have enabled both TCP/IP and AppleTalk services in your Win2k box and that may causing all this havok... If you ask me, you should disable a possible AppleTalk service in your Win2k box...

Check these out and let me know what gives...
 
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