Mac to PC file sharing issues on SBS2003

From: Jim Sykora (Sykora_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:19:07 -0800

I am working with a small printing company that does desktop publishing as a
majority of their business model. They use PCs for most of their workflow,
but for the desktop publishing they uses Macs running OSX 10.3. I have set
up a Small Business Server 2003 at their site. I have all of their PCs
connected to the SBS server flawlessly. I have all 4 of their Macs connected
to the SBS server via SMB and have them logging into the domain as members.
I have resolved all of the DNS issues with .local addresses, and I have
disbabled SMB digital signing on the server. Everything works with the Macs
connecting to the SMB shares on the SBS2003 server the majority of the time.
However, I am having 3 problems that I cannot find any resolution to that
I've listed below. I have posted on private newsgroups also and I intend to
contact Mac technical support as well, but am looking for any insight from
this community as well.

Problems:
1) Originally I had both SMB shares and Client for Macintosh Services
enabled as possibilities as they had 1 OS 9.2 Mac that they would have liked
to connect to the server via UAM. When using Client for Macintosh services
and the Microsoft UAM on the Mac clients I experienced odd problems with
Quark Express files for the Mac OS10.3 clients loosing their association with
the Quark program. If I renamed
the file on a PC to have a Quark extension, and then opened the file in
Quark on the PC workstation and saved it as a Mac Quark document then the Mac
workstation was able to open it. Once I disabled the UAM volume share in
Manage Computer I no longer experienced this issue now that I am using a
standard SMB share. I have heard of people loosing files when using SMB as
oposed to AFP, but I have not, as of yet, expierienced this. Any ideas on
this?

2) Mac clients are able to rename files, but not containing folders in the
share, even when made a user of the Domain Admins group(for testing
purposes). The Mac clients recieve access denied messages. This happens
with every folder created on the Mac OS10.3 client.

3) There are several folders that I cannot access from a PC that are still
accesable from the Mac clients. When I try to access them from the server I
get the
message: "C:\Micorosft UAM Volume\Data\Tanya\92470 Prevailing Winds NL Dec.
refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on
this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly
inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then
try again. If it
still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a
different location." If I browse to this directory from the Mac client it
shows up normally as one would expect. This does not happen for every
folder. So far it has happened for 3 out of 25 folders on the share.

If anyone has any suggestions to resolving any of these issues, or if more
information is needed please let me know.

Jim Sykora

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Converting Macintosh Files
    ... having trouble with is the Macintosh data that's stored on the one server ... SFM and having the clients connect via SMB. ... Your Mac files may not have lost their resource forks. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.macintosh)
  • Re: Mac to PC file sharing issues on SBS2003
    ... > Actually I still hesitate between sbs 2003 or an OS X server. ... did you choose smb or services for mac? ... Your choice between SMB and SFM is relatively easy - will the OS X Macs ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: MAC and SBS
    ... read about disabling SMB signing, or access netwok via SMB, what is the ... Connecting Mac OS X 10.3 and Higher Clients to a Windows Small Business ... Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB ...
    (microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz)
  • Re: Home directory for Mac
    ... > WinXP setup perfectly in that the home directories are on the server. ... Take a look at these links for AFP and SMB connections from the Mac to SBS: ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Cannot talk to mac services through IPSEC vpn
    ... Can you ping the server from the Mac? ... issue alone if SMB connections are failing as well. ... Is this blocked within your company's VPN networking? ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.macintosh)
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