Avoid '-36 errors' when connecting to Win2K servers

Dec 03, '02 09:56:47AM

Contributed by: jwillsey

For a while now, I have been getting a -36 error when trying to use Mac OS X 10.2.x's Connect to Server to connect to a Windows 2000 server SMB share. After a few weeks of frustration, I figured out what the problem was, or more accuratley, what I did wrong.

On Windows 2000, there are two services which at first glance do not seem to be related to file sharing, however, they are. Be sure to set Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM services to automatically start. If they are off, you will get the infamous -36 error commonly followed by a kernel dump.

I still think Apple has a bug for causing a UNIX core dump just because some expected services are not running on my W2K server.

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