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l008com · Oct 18, 2002, 05:44 PM

OK Here's the deal. I have a cheep Pee Cee running windows 2000. It has a small hard drive, but my Server, 10.1.4, has a BIG hard drive. So, from the Pee Cee, I want to log into the Server, mount one of the drives (it has smaller ones too), and make it to mount at login. Then I can set a folder on it to my downloads folder and everything I download with the Pee Cee will skip right over its own hard drive :-) I've been trying since last night, but I can't get it to work. Windows is VERY confusing when it comes to networking. On the Server, I believe I have everything set up right. Windows file sharing is on and running and the few simple options appear to be set up right.

Maneki Neko · Oct 18, 2002, 11:24 PM

Ok, so what does happen on the PC?

Can you see the OSX machine in your "My Network Places", under the appropriate workgroup?

How is your OS X Server machine setup?

Honestly, you shouldn't have any problems with this. Did this for a while with my OS X Server, without a hitch.

l008com · Oct 18, 2002, 11:29 PM

I barely know what im doing in windows. I can see the machine but when I try to get into it I get a message to the effect of my user name is not recognized, even though i'm using my real user name on the machine. Can you just walk me through the steps to connecting in windows, then we cna see where mines going wrong.

l008com · Oct 19, 2002, 12:10 AM

I'm also told that these days windows comes with AppleTalk built in too. So if there's an easy way I can connect to my server through AFP, that would work just as well.

dark3lf · Oct 20, 2002, 05:33 PM

I do this all the time. Turn on Windows File Sharing, use Samba Sharing Package, and optionally enable SWAT. Absolutley no troubles. If you need step-by-step specifics, let me know.

l008com · Oct 20, 2002, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by dark3lf:
I do this all the time. Turn on Windows File Sharing, use Samba Sharing Package, and optionally enable SWAT. Absolutley no troubles. If you need step-by-step specifics, let me know.

I'm not on 10.2, im on 10.1.4 Server. I enabled it, set the various settings and when the PC tried to connect, it kept on rejecting the password over and over. I have since installed PC MacLAN on the PC and that seemed to solve all the problems, until I just moved the PCI card from one slot to another, that seemed to confuse the hell out of the PC and pretty much killed all networking functions. (not to be confused, i switched the cards location while it was off)

dtriska · Oct 20, 2002, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by l008com:
I'm not on 10.2, im on 10.1.4 Server. I enabled it, set the various settings and when the PC tried to connect, it kept on rejecting the password over and over.

Have you looked at page 94 in the 10.1 Admin Guide regarding encrypted and cleartext passwords?

l008com · Oct 20, 2002, 10:14 PM

Figures. Seems like 10.1's server admin app is missing something in every area, that requires you to use netinfo. Well everything seems to be working with PC MacLAN so I'll leave it alone for now.

l008com · Oct 22, 2002, 11:06 PM

Originally posted by dtriska:

Have you looked at page 94 in the 10.1 Admin Guide regarding encrypted and cleartext passwords?

So as far as I could tell, all you have to do is enable the Authentication Manager. I'm no pro at Netinfo, but to date I have always been able to figure out what I've needed to do. Except now. I can't find anything regarding an Authentication Manager anywhere, how does one enable it?
(once the current batch of downloads is complete, i figure i'll try and switch back over to doing this totally natively in windows, using the windows server in OS X)

l008com · Oct 25, 2002, 07:34 PM

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dtriska · Oct 26, 2002, 04:47 AM

Sigh...

From page 94 of the 10.1 Admin Guide:

"To set up encrypted password validation, enable Authentication Manager on every Mac OS X computer that participates in the hierarchy. See Understanding and Using NetInfo�for complete information on how to set up Authentication Manager."

l008com · Oct 27, 2002, 04:15 PM

OK I finally got Authentication Manager running using NetInfo Domain Setup, not NetInto Manager.
But now the windows client only has read-only permissions on the drive. How do I give that user write permission on shared drives? I assume this one is in the Sharing section of Server Admin app.

I'm stumped again.

l008com · Oct 28, 2002, 12:53 AM

Plus hey, while I'm at it, I've got another question too. I had to reinstall OS X Server and while most things worked perfectly, I had to manually swap my httpd.conf with the httpd.conf.old to make my web server work again. The only other thing that doesn't seem to work anymore is Windows File Sharing. It thinks its running, and I can't find any errors, yet the samba server doesn't show up in either my Mac's or the Pee Cee's network browsers. Any ideas?