Can't find network shares

[SaYnT]

Hey all,

 

Ok i have a odd situation that i need some help with. I installed leo4allv3 on my system and everything was running fine at first. After a couple days trying to connect to some shared folders off of my windows server seemed to be starting to take longer and longer. Well day before yesterday I couldn't connect to the shares at all. I could ping the server, I even joined the active directory domain, but I still couldn't connect to any of the network shares. I have several pc's on my network but I couldn't see any of them in finder, or even connect to them.

 

So last night I figured ok, I'll just reinstall again but I might as well give the 10.5.2 kalyway disc a try this time. After installing, I joined the domain, added my local domain to the search domains in the networking settings and look at that, it's the exact same story. I can't connect to my server shares or even see any other machines on the network in finder.

 

I turned on the vnc sharing to hope that I could work on it remotely, but I can't connect to the unit. So I attempt to ping it.. nope no response. From my server I try and ping the mac's IP from my server and it doesn't get a reply either.

 

The whole situation seems and acts like there's a firewall on the mac .. but the only place I'm aware of that is within the system prefs - sharing .. and it's not enabled. Help... I'm not sure how to get the shares working...

 

All networking shares with my windows boxes were working great with kalyway 10.5.1 (even after upgrading with the 10.5.2 patch).

[SaYnT]

I'm not really sure as to why with the 10.5.2 installs this is acting a little weird, but I did find a fix for my situation.. so if anyone else is also having a problem. I found this post in the macrumor's web site

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=377771

 

Once i made this registry change and rebooted the server i was able to connect to it again with smb://server/sharename

 

"im having the same issue. it's a samba incompatibility. vista has a newer version that doesn't want to work with macs. you can revert it back to xp behavior by opening your registry and browsing to here:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\

 

in the right column look for 'lmcompatibilitylevel' and double click on it. change that '3' to a '1' and restart. the vista pc should show up on your network. now that it shows up, i still can't connect to the pc from my mac. only pc to mac works."