[clebin]

Well, I've upgraded to Jaguar and I was rather looking forward to the new Windows networking features... but
sadly SMB is still not working!

I can now browse my company domains freely, but when I try to connect to a server, I get a -5000 error.

I can connect to these shares using the command-line 'smbclient', which is something, but shouldn't the GUI be the easy way?

I've tried using smb://username: password@servername/share

I've tried full DNS names and IP addresses..

This is frustrating. What else can I try?

Chris

[Nephron]

Originally posted by clebin:
Well, I've upgraded to Jaguar and I was rather looking forward to the new Windows networking features... but
sadly SMB is still not working!

I can now browse my company domains freely, but when I try to connect to a server, I get a -5000 error.

I can connect to these shares using the command-line 'smbclient', which is something, but shouldn't the GUI be the easy way?

I've tried using smb://username: password@servername/share

I've tried full DNS names and IP addresses..

This is frustrating. What else can I try?

Chris

Hi Chris,

You've probably already tried this, but what I do is navigate to the server in the Connect To Server window, then click on the desired server so that the name of the server is in the Address window, then add /sharename (where, of course, you replace sharename with the name of the share on that server). Then I hit return. Make sure that your workspace, ID and password are all correct then hit return. Works for me.

I had been clicking on the servers and trying to log into them (the way you would with a Mac on your local network). I expected to be presented with a list of shares, etc., that I could access. I was stumped until I learned that you had to specifically add the name of the share.

Hope this helps (but based on your question, you probably have tried this and many other variations).

Cheers!

[clebin]

Thanks, but this is what I'm trying... it's never worked on my network. Any other suggestions?

Chris