Hello there,
The company which I work for has an Apple XSAN 2-based NAS, and we have a few edit suites which are direct-fibre 4GBPS to the Server, but for the rest of the office, we have Windows XP machines which connect fine to the SMB-based share on the Apple Xserve's, and always have.
However, since the majority of the company uses Windows PC's, it was inevitable at some point that we have an issue and the issue is now this: Windows 7, which I've installed for a few of the Animators (64-bit) will not, no matter what I've tried, access the damned SMB Share points or the server in general.
What happens is this: The Remote Procedure Call Failed.
I have tried adjusting many settings, which were posted on the web as a resolution for this issue, these include removing credentials from credential manager (If they exist), changing the NTLANMAN authentication to support 56-bit instead of 128Bit, to change to NTLM2.0 Auth, to check the SMB Server settings. (Our server supports 3 different methods of authentication) to no avail.
I have also tried other things, such as trying to connect when bound to our Windows Domain Controller, trying to connect when not bound to a Windows DC, connecting by IP, by FQDN, through Net Use (The old net use trick for forcing mounts no longer works with Windows 7, it does begin to connect to the server but something in the authentication process knocks it out.)
For the time being, unfortunately I am having 3 Windows 7 Users access the company fileserver by using WinSCP. This is not a great solution but it works.
The threads on the net, which I've searched for in google "SMB Share Windows 7 Cannot Access" pulls up alot of results of people having issues but the threads seem to go nowhere, or include solutions that Microsoft has seemingly broken in the past couple months. (IE: Most solution threads are from June-Dec 2009)
I read in a couple threads someone mentioned hearing a PodCast which talked about Microsoft purposely breaking compatibility between SMB, to break interoperability of alternate platforms that do not run Microsoft Windows.
Can anyone help me out, I'm tired of go no where threads.
The company which I work for has an Apple XSAN 2-based NAS, and we have a few edit suites which are direct-fibre 4GBPS to the Server, but for the rest of the office, we have Windows XP machines which connect fine to the SMB-based share on the Apple Xserve's, and always have.
However, since the majority of the company uses Windows PC's, it was inevitable at some point that we have an issue and the issue is now this: Windows 7, which I've installed for a few of the Animators (64-bit) will not, no matter what I've tried, access the damned SMB Share points or the server in general.
What happens is this: The Remote Procedure Call Failed.
I have tried adjusting many settings, which were posted on the web as a resolution for this issue, these include removing credentials from credential manager (If they exist), changing the NTLANMAN authentication to support 56-bit instead of 128Bit, to change to NTLM2.0 Auth, to check the SMB Server settings. (Our server supports 3 different methods of authentication) to no avail.
I have also tried other things, such as trying to connect when bound to our Windows Domain Controller, trying to connect when not bound to a Windows DC, connecting by IP, by FQDN, through Net Use (The old net use trick for forcing mounts no longer works with Windows 7, it does begin to connect to the server but something in the authentication process knocks it out.)
For the time being, unfortunately I am having 3 Windows 7 Users access the company fileserver by using WinSCP. This is not a great solution but it works.
The threads on the net, which I've searched for in google "SMB Share Windows 7 Cannot Access" pulls up alot of results of people having issues but the threads seem to go nowhere, or include solutions that Microsoft has seemingly broken in the past couple months. (IE: Most solution threads are from June-Dec 2009)
I read in a couple threads someone mentioned hearing a PodCast which talked about Microsoft purposely breaking compatibility between SMB, to break interoperability of alternate platforms that do not run Microsoft Windows.
Can anyone help me out, I'm tired of go no where threads.
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