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I am a IT admin- Our graphics department is all run on macs. There are a little paranoid to join the windows network but I have figured it all out and everybody is somewhat happy now. Here is my problem.

ON the Mac G5 I believe it is Panther. I hit go>network and it shows all of the windows networks and is happy so I go to the folder I want and drop and drag or what ever I need to do then I close and go back it dissappears.

go>network
nothing happens. I think I hear a sound but no window pops up. I reboot severall times and it finally comes back but I can only seem to access it once.

Please tell me if I am doing something wrong or if there is another way to go about this.

One more thing is it possible to map a drive to the server in mac? and if so how?

Thank you and forgive my Newbieness I am trying.

Mike
By the way I am fluent in UNIX if that might help, but my Graphics dept. is not.
 
Create a folder on your drive, name it Servers, or anything. After you mount a server/volume, drag it's icon to that folder. Put as many in there as you use. Drag that folder to the Dock. Now you can Control or Right Click to mount anything in there.
 
panthers network browsing is still somehow defective. However, 10.3.6 had some fixes. You might want to check for this update. If your system is already running 10.3.6, I would propose to use the go>Connect to Server option. You can add favorites and quickly access the network clients.
 
I second adding your servers to the doc or the sidebar. I do that and have very little issues connection to windows servers. However, I have seen that disappearing act before. ;)
 
Zammy-Sam said:
panthers network browsing is still somehow defective. However, 10.3.6 had some fixes. You might want to check for this update. If your system is already running 10.3.6, I would propose to use the go>Connect to Server option. You can add favorites and quickly access the network clients.
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I can't seem to drag my server into my new file as I don't have permissions. Nobody seems to know the admin password or whatever the root/admin acount is on MAC
If I go network then it works the first time then dissappears (same as earlier)
If I take your advice It fails. What is the format for the path?

here is a false example of what I do, Please let me know it this is wrong?

\\<domain name>\<servername>
example
\\disney\pluto

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks again,
Mike
 
os x networking with win networks is still a little flaky yes. There are workarounds though. You can write a simple script to automount network. From what u mentioned above win network domains dont work so well. Instead of \\<domainname> try cifs:<servername>, i believe this is sambas cmd to mount. Also what twister mentioned above works great ...put network mounts as shortcuts in the dock or in yer finder. OR the way we do it is to run an app called DAVE. which works alot like the networking in panther but in its own gui which works well. When my network servers dissapear under the finder I use DAVE to find them all.....

http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html
 
andehlu said:
os x networking with win networks is still a little flaky yes. There are workarounds though. You can write a simple script to automount network. From what u mentioned above win network domains dont work so well. Instead of \\<domainname> try cifs:<servername>, i believe this is sambas cmd to mount. Also what twister mentioned above works great ...put network mounts as shortcuts in the dock or in yer finder. OR the way we do it is to run an app called DAVE. which works alot like the networking in panther but in its own gui which works well. When my network servers dissapear under the finder I use DAVE to find them all.....

http://www.thursby.com/products/dave.html
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Sorry for being so difficult but I looked a DAVE and it wants me to install something on the windows server as well as the mac. I don't have admin on mac anyways and our database is on the server and the database Manager is reluctant (small business server). I can't create a shortcut because I don't have permissions. I think I like the script idea but I can't seem to get the path right I tried cifs:<servername> tells me it can't find the server and then hangs and I have to hard reboot it.


Earlier someone said to right click I don't know if that was a joke or if that is an option but ours only has a one button mouse.

what really stinks about the whole deal is it works once then it is gone till about 4 reboots. I also need to get used to no right clicks.

Mike
 
The equivalent of a right-click on a one-button mouse is to hold down "control" on the keyboard and click the mouse.

Samba's command to mount is SMB:, not CIFS:. CIFS is "Common Internet File System."
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
Samba's command to mount is SMB:, not CIFS:. CIFS is "Common Internet File System."
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can I do this with go > servers?
can you show me the exact format

smb//<domain/server/share?
 
adrenaline said:
can I do this with go > servers?
can you show me the exact format

smb//<domain/server/share?
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Here some examples:
smb://computername
smb://computerip (as mentioned above)
afp://macname
 
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