Snow Leopard - connecting to windows file share?

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tplatt

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Aug 31, 2009

• #1

On tiger, I could connect to windows file shares quite easily, if I recall

1. in Finder, use "Go" -> "Connect to Server"
2. Enter smb://servername/sharename
3. Click "Connect"

In Snow Leopard, I do this and I'm prompted for a login, but it WILL NOT take my windows domain / username and password. I've tried multiple times, and confirmed the windows server is pingable and the appropriate ports are open.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

 

calderone

Cancelled

• Aug 31, 2009

• #2

Curious, are you doing:

domain\username

Have you tried simply the username without the domain?

 

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tplatt

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Aug 31, 2009

• #3

calderone said:

Curious, are you doing:

domain\username

Have you tried simply the username without the domain?

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Yes, and Yes. I tried it both ways. No luck either way.

I've gone through this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1568 and not gotten it to work, granted it doesn't list 10.6 as applying

 

jmpage2

macrumors 68040

• Aug 31, 2009

• #4

I routinely connect multiple macs to my Win file share box over SMB.

Have you tried creating a new user/password on the windows box and see if you can connect it that way?

reboot the windows box?

 

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tplatt

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Aug 31, 2009

• #5

jmpage2 said:

I routinely connect multiple macs to my Win file share box over SMB.

Have you tried creating a new user/password on the windows box and see if you can connect it that way?

reboot the windows box?

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Sigh... reboot FTW. Thanks. Didn't think to try that. I rebooted the windows box it and all is well again, I can connect. I guess using multiple macs at home has spoiled me to some degree... I only reboot them when applying software updates.

 

gdprof27

macrumors member

• Sep 2, 2009

• #6

Can you post these steps, one by one in layman's terms because this same thing is happening to me.

Thanks in advance!

 

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bluecluee

macrumors member

• Sep 7, 2009

• #7

The same thing is happening to me except on a large scale network at a college campus. We can no longer map any of our windows drives using smb://

Has anyone else found this?

 

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andymodem

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 7, 2009

• #8

No problem mapping shares to my Windows Home Server box on my MacBookPro, or hackintosh (Both running 10.6).

 

gdprof27

macrumors member

• Sep 24, 2009

• #9

(bump)


I could really use help with this! I have not figured out how to make it work and I cannot connect!

 

gdprof27

macrumors member

• Sep 30, 2009

• #10

(bump again)


can anyone help me with this? I'd prefer not to downgrade back to 10.5 but if I cannot get logged into my office servers then I will have no choice!

 

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cltgt

macrumors newbie

• Oct 5, 2009

• #11

Not working yet for me and I have rebooted all the servers here...

 

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jaymal

macrumors newbie

• Oct 5, 2009

• #12

Any solution

When on my companies network all the windows machines appear in the Shared section but when I try logging into them I get the "Connection Failed" message. There were no problems on 10.5.

Where do I even start looking?

 

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cltgt

macrumors newbie

• Oct 5, 2009

• #13

Got it working when I clicked on the Connect As button on the right.

 

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gekkosan

macrumors newbie

• Feb 26, 2010

• #14

Check the Firewall

tplatt said:

Sigh... reboot FTW. Thanks. Didn't think to try that. I rebooted the windows box it and all is well again, I can connect. I guess using multiple macs at home has spoiled me to some degree... I only reboot them when applying software updates.

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Heh-heh... the suggestion to reboot didn't solve it for me, but it did lead me to check the Fiewall, because I realized I could ping the Windows server as soon as it restarted, but not a few minutes afterward.
Indeed, somehow the Windows Firewall had been activated and that was blocking all and any attempts to connect.
Modified the Firewall settings, and problem solved.😛