[UniMacTech] Leopard SMB mounting issue

[Allan Gadsby]

I have been having similar issues with a Filemaker server using Retrospect
to connect to an SMB share for backup. I eventually found a site that
recommended using Go->connect to server and saving to favorites. Then
dragging the user->library->favorite into login items in account prefs, this
may be the site I got it from-:
http://www.stress-free.co.nz/tech/leopard
It seems to work ok but I have had to reboot a couple of times on occasion
to get it to map properly. I have an auto logon set up too, to make it work.
I have also noticed that Finder in 10.5 seems to revert back to the root of
a network SMB share, when closed then re-opened, even though the drive was
mapped to sub directory folder.

Cheers
Al


On 19/09/08 1:32 PM, "Takeo Echizenya" <takeo.echizenya at aut.ac.nz> wrote:

>    
> 
>  Hi,    
> 
>        
> 
>  I am wondering if anyone is experiencing a SMB mounting issue when connecting
> to shares hosted on a Win2K3 AD Kerberized server?  The issue appears to
> affect Leopard only.  Shares mount fine on 10.4.11 client.
> 
>        
> 
>  The issue appears to be in all builds of 10.5 including 10.5.5.  Basically
> the client machine has no issues binding or authenticating against the AD
> server, but when attempting to mount an SMB/CIFS share it prompts for
> reauthentication.  This shouldn't be the case if Kerberos is running
> correctly.     
> 
>        
> 
>  According to Kerberos.app, the client/login has received the correct ticket.
> The issue is only affected when doing it via the GUI i.e. Connect to Server.
> If the mount_smbfs command is used to mount the share, the share mounts
> successfully without prompting for reauthentication.
> 
>        
> 
>  I have also found the same "authentication prompt" issue when printing to AD
> print queues.  Otherwise printing to AD print queues is fine after entering
> login details.   
> 
>        
> 
>  Mounting SMB shares is not so much of an issue for us at the moment, as I can
> write a script to automount the shares upon user login and has proven to work
> fine so far.  It will only be an issue if a user decides to mount shares
> manually that are not already mounted.
> 
>        
> 
>  Any thoughts on this?  Searching in the forums, some users are experiencing
> the same problem.  Apparently it is a known issue that is still yet to be
> fixed.      
> 
>        
> 
>  Regards,     
>  
> 
>  Takeo     
>  
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