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10.5: How to connect to a Windows server or share
Authored by: bschmidt on Nov 09, '07 03:59:00PM

thompsar writes:
> I used to be able to mount a work share in 10.4 using connet to server and
> smb://domain;username@ip_address/share but now it says my username
> and password are incorrect (they are not).

Try placing an ascii file named nsmb.conf in ~/Library/Preferences containing these two lines:
[win-server-name]
addr=1.2.3.4

OS X 10.5 smb URIs seems to have to have the Window Server's netbios name. OS X 10.4 smb URI's could also have the Window Server's IP address or fully-qualified-domain name. Maybe OS X 10.4 had a strategy of trying to resolve Window Server names with WINS, failing if necessary over to DNS? In OS X 10.5, I've had to use the nsmb.conf file to map the Windows Netbios names of my domains' servers to their FQDNS names. For details, fire up terminal.app and enter: man nsmb.conf

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...ben



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