Problems with Samba

[danielj]

I have problems with samba on the new Jaguar.

If I want to connect from the mac to a pc, I can see in the list all connected pcs. But as soon as I try to connect, I always get the message:

Connecting to smb://....

An error has occured (-5000)

I don't knwo why?

And on the other side, when I try to connect from a pc to the mac. I get to the login but I can't login. I tried first to reset the password on the mac, by changing it with passwd (I saw this tip in an other forum). But that didn't help.

Any ideas?

Thanx

[jabhome]

No matter what I tried I could not get my PC to connect to my Mac. I was able to connect via SMB to the Win box, but PC > Mac was a no go. It was not until I created a Account in System Preferences with a shortname the same as my Win Box that I was able to see the Mac from the PC.

My box at work was called jbarrios. I added a user with that name in the Accounts Preference Panel. When I attempted to connect to the Mac, the login appeared and asked for a password. The password that I used when I created the new account worked just fine. Until I created the new account no matter how many times I entered my Administrator Password the PC could not see the Mac. Basically you should create a new user for each winbox you want to allow access to the Mac.

As far as connecting to the PC it should be as simple as smb://ip_computer name/share. My connection works with smb://jbarrios/mydocs or smb://192.168.1.101/mydocs. You do have to make sure the File sharing is enable on the Winbox and you will be asked for authentication which will require your Mac Admin password.

Hope that sheds some light on things.

J

[danielj]

Thank you, the connection from the PC to the MAC now works.

But I get still this error -5000 when I try to connect from the MAC to the PC.

J.

[agriffiths100]

I had the same problem mounting Windows shares from Jaguar, it seems the easy access to Windows servers Apple claimed isn't as easy as it could be.

I was able to mount the share by hand though, if the Windows box is called "dell" using the commands:

% mkdir /dell
% sudo mount_smbfs //dell/SharedDocs /dell

will mount the share in the directory /dell. You may need to include a username and password in the format described in the man page if the share is protected. To see a list of available shares use:

% smbclient -L dell

It's really quite annoying that shares can't be browsed or mounted from the Finder though. One of the main reasons I went to Jaguar is that I hoped this would work seamlessly. If anyone has any ideas how to get it working I'd love to know.

The same thing goes with printing to a Windows printer, I haven't spent much time working on that but it certainly isn't as simple as it could be. Why can't you just select a Windows printer from the "Print Center" instead of using smbspool?


As for why you can't see the Mac disks from a Windows box, make sure you use the short name of the account when logging in, and enable "Logging in from windows" in the "Accounts" preferences.

I hope that helps some.

Cheers,
--dag

[danielj]

Thanks dag, from the command line it works. But you are absolutely right, it is very boring that it does not work from the GUI.

cheers

J.

[Jermsmingy]

I haven't had a problem connecting to a pc from my mac, but I have had a problem connecting to my mac from a pc. I had to create another user, but then I can't share my files. It is very annoying. I think that this is going to be something that apples fixes in a small update.

[IchiroBoston]

I had the same problem (-5000)...etc

I guess a while back I installed DAVE on OS-X and even after uninstalling it there were still files in the OS. If you go to DAVE's website you can get a list of where all the files are located, I had to boot into 9 to remove everything.
Now all works well

Ichiro

[fddi1]

If you are upgrade to Jaguar from a previous version of OS X, you will have to reset your user password in order to allow the samba connection from a PC to a Mac. What I did was to change my password to something else, then changed it back. I'm guessing Jaguar is using a different password format than the previous versions.