Integration of Mini into Windows-dominated office

Biogas · Biogas #1 (**permalink**)

07-10-2010, 10:24 AM

Folks,

We bought a mini the other day for the company and it has lots of great features and works quite well... with the other Macs as well as with the XP systems.

However, there are several issues and the most important one I'll ask about here. It DOES NOT serve disks to the Windows 7 machines.

It seems that the Windows 7 systems can find the server although they don't display it on the list of available network items. We try to connect using the same username but a different password because they are running different directories (I was unable to migrate the directories during the mini's setup.) The connection then fails.

Again, this does work on XP.

I looked on-line regarding this and found some information about SAMBA 2.x but those issues should have been resolved in SAMBA 3.x. I tried the fixes anyway to no avail.

I bought a book ISBN 9781430227724 and on page 23 they discuss not using *.local as the DNS domain field, but this specific diagram, figure 2.12, did not appear during the mini setup, and I did put *.local in the DNS search area. I can see that I have it set up as *.local on the machine in Server Preferences. I then searched through /etc for the different places where *.local is, and that would be in bootp.plist or something like that and resolv.conf. I'm not sure that fixing these will help, but my suspicion is that Windows 7 is trying to get credentials approved from the Small Business Server before attempting to connect to the mini.

Anyway, anybody with any inkling about what to do, please send a message.

IvanLasston · IvanLasston #2 (**permalink**)

07-10-2010, 11:10 AM

I have windows 7 working with Snow Leopard - mounting disks and sharing files. I do have the same username/password though. That being said there are a few things to try
[Solved] Windows 7 and Samba Issue - windows-7

I did have problems on another network where I couldn't get Windows 7 home to connect to a Mac Mini running snow leopard - I didn't quite get that worked out but I did try the things in the thread.

Biogas · Biogas #3 (**permalink**)

07-10-2010, 02:52 PM

Yes, that is an interesting page, thank you.

Much of it I have tried, but there is a link to another page with registry editing which I have not tried. I'll let you know how that works... The page is...

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Member Since: Jul 10, 2010 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 4 Mac Specs: i5 MacBook Pro	07-10-2010, 10:24 AM Folks, We bought a mini the other day for the company and it has lots of great features and works quite well... with the other Macs as well as with the XP systems. However, there are several issues and the most important one I'll ask about here. It DOES NOT serve disks to the Windows 7 machines. It seems that the Windows 7 systems can find the server although they don't display it on the list of available network items. We try to connect using the same username but a different password because they are running different directories (I was unable to migrate the directories during the mini's setup.) The connection then fails. Again, this does work on XP. I looked on-line regarding this and found some information about SAMBA 2.x but those issues should have been resolved in SAMBA 3.x. I tried the fixes anyway to no avail. I bought a book ISBN 9781430227724 and on page 23 they discuss not using .local as the DNS domain field, but this specific diagram, figure 2.12, did not appear during the mini setup, and I did put .local in the DNS search area. I can see that I have it set up as .local on the machine in Server Preferences. I then searched through /etc for the different places where .local is, and that would be in bootp.plist or something like that and resolv.conf. I'm not sure that fixing these will help, but my suspicion is that Windows 7 is trying to get credentials approved from the Small Business Server before attempting to connect to the mini. Anyway, anybody with any inkling about what to do, please send a message.
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IvanLasston #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 26, 2010 Location: Rocky Mountain High, Colorado Posts: 2,116 Mac Specs: 1.8 GHz i7 MBA 11" OSX 10.8.2	07-10-2010, 11:10 AM I have windows 7 working with Snow Leopard - mounting disks and sharing files. I do have the same username/password though. That being said there are a few things to try [Solved] Windows 7 and Samba Issue - windows-7 I did have problems on another network where I couldn't get Windows 7 home to connect to a Mac Mini running snow leopard - I didn't quite get that worked out but I did try the things in the thread.
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