Re: Viewing external hard drives on a server

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From: Daniel Kohl (Kohl_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 06:39:01 -0800

Hi Bill,

By "on the network" I meant on our one server. Sorry about the ambiguity.
They can see all the other shares on the server, just not the external drives.

When this first happened I thought mabye there was a problem with the share
groups. Instead of messing with the existing groups and mabye killing
everyone's connection, I made a group for just the Mac users, thinking that
mabye they weren't covered by the existing groups for some reason. But this
was only after the problem occured.

Thanks,
Dan Kohl
> Hi Daniel!
>
> I should have asked a few more questions.
>
> In your original post you say your Macs can see other shared folders on
> the network but not the shared folder on the firewire drive. By "on the
> network" do you mean on the same server? Or can your Macs not see
> anything from this server?
>
> Also, you mention that you have the drive shared with full permissions
> set for all and a specific set for the Mac users. Can you explain this?
> If everyone has full permissions, then what have you set up for the Macs?
>
> If the Macs are connecting via SMB, they are connecting as Windows users
> themselves. I can only guess that what you've set up specifically for
> the Mac users is interfering.
>
> bill
> --
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP)
>

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