I have a SMB/AFP network share that needs to be accessed via Windows and Mac computers. The AFP side works fine for the Mac OS X clients.
However, I can't get it to map on Windows. I've tried the following steps:
- Right click "Network," select "Map Network Drive"
- Enter the SMB server in the form
\\server.url.here\sharename - Select "Connect using different credentials"
- Enter username and password
The window then shows "Attempting to connect" for several dozen seconds, then reverts back to asking for the username and password.
I have tried mapping two different SMB shares in this manner, one running on some version of Windows Server (our university provides this) and another running on Mac OS 10.8 server (the SMB/AFP server) with no success. I have tried on both Windows 7 and Windows 8 (various native and virtualized copies) with no success.
I have already changed the security policy to guest only authentication, which had no effect.
Help? :D
183 Answers
SMB shares are generally using NetBIOS names, not domain (DNS style hierarchical) names. Try with \\NETBIOSNAME\sharename. Make sure your Windows systems have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled.
Sounds like security is setup on the Host Server. Please contact the server administrator to obtain the correct user account information. If the file server is joined to a domain, likely your PC needs to be joined to the domain and your domain account needs to be added to be allowed to access this resource.
4What worked for me is to setup a Windows user account on Mac using "Options" button available on the File Sharing panel. It allows me to add a User name and chose a password and save.
On Windows, all I did is to Map a network drive with address \192.168.0.xx\ ip address and provide the user name (spaces also possible) and provide the password entered in step 1. It listed all the shared drives to chose from and map to a drive.
