Re: OS9 - Windows 2000 SP4

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Thanks for the Help,

We have it connecting to AFP. This has never ever been an issue until we
installed the Security patches on the Windows 2000 box (the server) which
was this morning.

Over 30 machines were happily working yesterday morning - its not client
side. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tony


On 6/14/05 8:54 PM, in article
mecklists-51E540.22540614062005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "William Smith"
<mecklists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <2_600014_4dd32f913c5e42b5d14d1bb171c1ec20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> TonyBevilacqua <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi There,
>>
>> We just installed some updates on our Windows 2000 SP4 box and now all
>> our OS 9 and OS 8 machines are unable to connect to the server. The
>> login box appears but once we enter the credentials the window hangs
>> for about 2 minutes then we get an error saying something like "your
>> connection was unexpectedly closed".
>
> Hi Tony!
>
> Are your Mac OS X machines connecting via SMB instead of AFP? If so then
> your problem lies with the File Services for Macintosh. Mac OS 8 and 9
> machines can only use AFP.
>
> You can safely remove and reinstall File Services for Macintosh and this
> will probably correct your problem. Keep in mind that you'll need to
> recreate your Mac volumes. In fact, to make a clean uninstall/reinstall
> I would suggest you delete all Mac volumes (this doesn't delete your
> files, it only deletes the shares to your Macs) and then uninstall.
>
> Hope this helps! bill

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