To: macos-x-server@lists.apple.com
From: Ferdinand Fuchs
Subject: connect problem with windows users
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hello,
we have a xserve with mac os x 10.3.8 server and a very strange problem:
windows xp users (with sp1 or sp2) connect to our server with smb. after 15 minutes of using a share, the users get an "access denied" error message in the open/save dialog window, if they try to e.g. open a word-file directly from microsoft word or to attach an attachment to an email directly from outlook.
strange is, that they can sometimes use a sharepoint still in windows explorer. after they make a reboot, they can use the sharepoint again.
I found several posts in apples discussion forum, that discuss similar problems, but unfortunately nobody found a solution until now.
one tip was to activate "guest access", with this setting my colleagues are able to use a sharepoint for 30 minutes, but after that same problems again.
to make it even more strange:
we have this problem with users, which use notebooks with windows xp since last week - before that they had imacs with mac os 9.
we have also 10 windows-users, which have their windows 2000 and windows xp workstations for several month. interestingly, only one user have also this problem since 4 weeks, the other 9 user never had this problem!
i feel clueless, any suggestions from you would be great!
thanks!
best regards,
ferdinand