"There was a problem connecting to the server..."

MilesToEmpty · MilesToEmpty #1 (**permalink**)

01-24-2012, 11:32 PM

For the life of me I can't find a solution to this.

Running off my personal PC I have a share drive. Every PC in the house connects to it perfectly. My MBP did once, and won't anymore. It had connectivity for all of about 5minutes then it dropped it.

I setup a new home server running off a HP Proliant. The PC's connect to it fine, its running Server 2008 R2.

The MBP connected to it fine, then dropped connection.

I can't figure out where to even start.

It is working, Im actually transferring backups from the PC's to the server now... But the MBP won't see it.

Running 10.7.2

MacsWork · MacsWork #2 (**permalink**)

01-27-2012, 08:14 PM

Try SMB://ipaddress instead.

eg

smb://192.168.1.10

Or add the hostname of the home server to the host file on the Mac in /etc/hosts

MilesToEmpty · MilesToEmpty #3 (**permalink**)

02-05-2012, 10:17 PM

No go on that.

My coworker sent me the following:

Lion removed Samba for a different implementation of SMB. It's bad so I hear. Maybe you can get it to mount as AFS or NFS instead of SMB. Or find a Samba install from MacPorts/Fink

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MilesToEmpty #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 24, 2012 Posts: 4	01-24-2012, 11:32 PM For the life of me I can't find a solution to this. Running off my personal PC I have a share drive. Every PC in the house connects to it perfectly. My MBP did once, and won't anymore. It had connectivity for all of about 5minutes then it dropped it. I setup a new home server running off a HP Proliant. The PC's connect to it fine, its running Server 2008 R2. The MBP connected to it fine, then dropped connection. I can't figure out where to even start. It is working, Im actually transferring backups from the PC's to the server now... But the MBP won't see it. Running 10.7.2
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MacsWork #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 22, 2005 Location: Closer than you think. Posts: 2,074 Mac Specs: Performa 6116 2GBSCSI 8MB OS 7.5.3	01-27-2012, 08:14 PM Try SMB://ipaddress instead. eg smb://192.168.1.10 Or add the hostname of the home server to the host file on the Mac in /etc/hosts
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