Clustered SMB shares from Windows Server 2008

[hjuutilainen]

Is anyone using clustered SMB shares from Windows Server 2008? We are currently having huge problems connecting to these with Mac OS X clients (10.4.11 and 10.5.4). Other shares are working perfectly but these 2008 shares are giving me a major headache.

When connecting (cmd-K) to smb://serveraddress/ we get an empty list of available shares. When using smb://serveraddress/share we get an error that the volume could not be mounted (with error code: -6602). Shares can’t be browsed from command line either. The only thing that has helped is to compile and install the latest Samba by hand. After that I’m able to browse the shares with smbclient but anything with GUI is not working.

Is there something that could be done from the server side? Any other suggestions?

[hjuutilainen]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u][p]I’ve not tried a 2008 cluster, but I used to connect to 2003 r2 clusters all the time.

Remember too that Mac OS X doesn’t use SAMBA to connect to SMB shares. It uses smbfs.[/p][/QUOTE]

Yes, we have a few 2003 clusters also and everything is working just fine with them. It’s just the 2008 clusters that are refusing to work. At the moment we don’t have any other choice than to move the affected user homes to another server. I’ve filed a bug report with Apple about this.

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