Windows shares not showing up.

[PeterBonnar]

Up until recently, we have had one pc and three macs all shairng files nicely.

We constanly send video over to the pc to be processed for the web. We swapped the pc over and i tested it all and everything seemed fine.

However i now find only 2 out of the 3 macs can find the pc. I checked sharing settings are the same on both macs, reset the pram, repaired permissions, checked the firewall insint on and even talked nicely to it. But nothing, it can find the other two pcs on the network but not the pc.

Any ideas?

 

[yellow]

Can you ping the PC from the Mac?

 

[PeterBonnar]

pinged it and it came back successfull,

Any ideas?

 

[yellow]

And attempting to connect directly to the share, rather than browse for it?

What do the logs say about the progress/lack of preogress?

 

[PeterBonnar]

how do i connect directly?

what logs?

 

[yellow]

Finder -> Go -> Connect To Server... -> enter the IP address of the server, smb://ip.address.of.pc/share/point

system.log and console.log, both GUIfied readable in the Console app.

 

[PeterBonnar]

direct connection, seems to have worked, however it still doesn't show up in the network browser.

not sure what in the logs to look for

 

[PeterBonnar]

is there a way to add a working shortcut/alias of the pc share to my desktop, i'm not the only user of this machine so this could cause issues.

 

[yellow]

Couldn't tell you why it's not showing in the browser. Is there a firewall/IPsec on the PC that is blocking the Mac from browsing it? Are they on the same subnet?

Logs are time stamped. Put a mark in the log, try and browse, and see if there's any messages between the mark and when you ceased browsing.

Have you tried browsing logged in as another user?

You can make an alias, but they break pretty often, so it's not worth it. You could try using the shortcut (and Dock it) created in ~/Library/Recent Servers/.

I use AppleScripts to mount them. Faster/easier.

 

[PeterBonnar]

the firewall on the pc is disabled and so is the mac. If the firewall on the pc is on none of the macs can see it.

There are all on the same subnet.

Will try the logs later and let you know.

No user on this one machine can get in.

could u give me a hint of that script?

And fianlly THANK YOU YELLOW!

 

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could u give me a hint of that script?

tell application "System Events"
	set _username_ to get name of current user
	delay 1
	
	--set _username_ to "Enter id" as string
	
	tell application "Finder"
		activate
		if exists disk "GROUP_HOME" then
			try
				set mountHome to make new Finder window to folder _username_ of disk "GROUP_HOME"
				set current view of mountHome to list view
			on error
				beep
				display dialog ¬
					"Home folder cannot be found. Contact Help Desk @ 555-1212" buttons "Cancel" default button 1 with icon stop
			end try
			return
		end if
		try
			mount volume "smb://ADdomain;" & _username_ & "@server.ip.edu/GROUP_HOME/"
		on error
			beep
			display dialog ¬
				"Authentication failed." buttons "Cancel" default button 1 with icon caution
		end try
		set timeWaited to 0
		repeat until (list disks) contains "GROUP_HOME"
			delay 2 -- delay 2 seconds
			set timeWaited to timeWaited + 2
			if timeWaited > 60 then
				beep
				display dialog ¬
					"GROUP_HOME failed to mount. Contact Help Desk @ 555-1212." buttons "Cancel" default button 1 with icon stop
				return
			end if
		end repeat
		try
			set mountHome to make new Finder window to folder _username_ of disk "GROUP_HOME"
			set current view of mountHome to list view
		on error
			beep
			display dialog ¬
				"Home folder cannot be found. Contact Help Desk @ 555-1212" buttons "Cancel" default button 1 with icon stop
		end try
	end tell
end tell