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10.4: Accessing older SMB servers
Authored by: shiro on Aug 30, '05 05:18:35PM

I feel obligated to reply after all the times MacOSX hints has helped me out. I've been fiddling with the problem of can't mount SMB shares for some time and found the following on apple's message boards. This will only help people who can admin their own SMB server, but hopefully that's most.

If your SMB server has security=share, try changing it to security=user.

Apparently, Applie is tracking a bug in which the Tiger client tries to encode passwords using UTF-16 for share, but not for user authentication. You SMB server can't deal with this so shares fail. It is not patched as of 10.4.2, but this work around might help in the mean time. See the following URL for follow up:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@691.wq1ZaGJj9BG.3@.68b47911/22



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10.4: Accessing older SMB servers
Authored by: rany on Oct 23, '05 12:07:23AM

Would anyone know how to reverse this change to the SMB settings on the Mac ??

-rany



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