Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:10:15 GMT

Damien? You are doing something wrong then as many of us in the SBS world have the SMB signing disabled with no issues whatsoever.

You are probably not setting the group policy correctly.

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

Damien Rossiter — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:00:13 GMT

Every time I disable SMB signing the MAcs connect fine but after a few days it starts blocking XP PC's from connecting into the domain and can't access the GPO to revert back. The only fix is a know MS issues and resetting the lanmanserver parameters to 1 and then undefining the smb, thus letting back on the pc's but blocking the macs

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:51:00 GMT

Hey, the link on the page titled "Things I Wish I Had Known - Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB:" that instructs you how to setup for .local gives a blank page

as well as the link above for "Things I Wish I Had Known - How To Configure Entourage 2004 for SBS 2003: "

Has anyone got working links? I'm having trouble with a mac and sbs server. Thanks

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:30:00 GMT

The domain.local issue is not restricted to 10.3.8.

In its standard config domain.local is "assumed" to be the address space used by Rendezvous and hence "standard" DNS is not used. There is a documented "hack" which instructs OSX to use unicast DNS instead of multicast DNS to resolve names in the domain.local address space.

http://pentechcom.com/sbsdocblog/SBS_Mac_Beta.doc

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 05:25:00 GMT

What with the .local issue in Mac OS X 10.3.8 ?

re: Connecting Mac OS X to SBS

TrackBack — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:54:00 GMT

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:00:00 GMT

I would just like to say thank you. I have been having that stupid "root certificate" error for ages with Entourage and thanks to you it has disappeared.

Thank you again,
Anon

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:03:00 GMT

Hey Steve. I've had MUCH better luck with Entourage 2004 than with any previous version, or any version of Outlook since Microsoft removed Exchange connectivity from the client.

I'm looking into an issue with WebDAV and Entourage2K4/SBS. There may be some updates to the links soon.

-Q

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:32:00 GMT

Thanks Eriq! Great site!!

Question for you and/or Norm. With Entourage 2004, does the calendar update better than it had in Entourage X? I had bagged using Entourage X and went to Outlook 2003 in a VPC 6.1.1 XP Pro session because the calendar would take forever to update in Entourage X but does much better in cached mode in the new Windows Outlook 2003 client. In addition, I was finding IMAP would only update directories if you select them to view, otherwise they would stagnate - not a cool thing when you go to access an email on your PowerBook when offline. I was just going back in to my SBS 2003 box to disable the previous changes I had made to enable Entourage when I came across the updates Susan made here. Have already killed my Exchange profile in Entourage X, but if 2004 is more agreeable with SBS and Exchange 2003, then I'll give that a shot. Do you think it is ready for primetime power use yet?..

Thanks again for your site Eriq! Glad Susan ran across it.
Steve

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:41:00 GMT

That's correct, Norm. I need to get this updated with the full info on Entourage 2004, which I'm actively working on. Should have it available soon...

-Q

re: Connecting a Macintosh to SBS 2003 Server via SMB

bradley — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:32:00 GMT

There is no need to turn off forms based authentication in Exchange System Manager IF you are using Entourage 2004. That's one of the cool new features of Entourage 2004 .