Re: Can't connect OSX 10.3 & OS9 clients to same Win2k Share
From: Jeff Roseman (Roseman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/06/04
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:37:03 -0700
What about Windows 2003 Server would that help?
"William Smith" wrote:
> In article <14bba9fe.0410051217.1bcbbb45@posting.google.com>,
> jeff_roseman@hotmail.com (Jeff Roseman) wrote:
>
> > Our existing OS9 clients have no problem connecting to our Win2k SP4
> > server using AFP. However we have some new OSX machines that do don't
> > connect properly. When browsing the file share they see everything,
> > but when you click on some folders and most files, the file just
> > disappears (this only happens with file sthat show no icon). We also
> > get an error 50 when trying to connect to the share using SMB. OSx
> > clients are running the latest UAM for OSX.
> >
> > What are we missing or doing wrong?
>
>
> Hi Jeff!
>
> First, the UAM will only apply to AFP connections that you make. It will
> not come into play when connecting via SMB.
>
> To maintain interoperability with your Mac OS 9 machines I would suggest
> you use AFP and not SMB. Mac OS X's version of SMB will split the Mac
> files into two files to preserve data and resource information but Mac
> OS 9 clients won't be able to read the two files as one from the server.
>
> Mac OS X is unfortunately very poor in reading Windows Server volumes
> because its version of the AFP protocol is 3.x and Windows Server still
> uses AFP 2.2. These two protocols are not completely incompatible but
> not very compatible.
>
> One solution for you is to use Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP
> <http://www.grouplogic.com/products/extreme/overview.cfm> on your
> server, which uses the AFP 3.x protocol. However this is an expensive
> solution.
>
> Hope this helps! bill
> --
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP)
>
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