MAC shares on Win 2000 server

[JensCB]

I have a Windows 2000 SBS, with a MAC share on it. When I from the MAC look for files on the MAC share it very very very slooooow. Why is that?

Regards
Jens

 

[devastator]

Are you using tcp/ip and what version of mac OS? I am using win nt sbs 4.5 and mac os x jaguar and I have just created login scripts to map the shares that all the XP stations use at logon.

dev

 

[JensCB]

I'm using SBS 2000 and MAC OS X.

Regards
Jens

 

[devastator]

Got this information off of

http://www.thursby.com

Write a simple AppleScript using the Script Editor (located in Applications/AppleScript) that resembles the example below:

For Mac OS 10.1.x:

tell application "Finder"
try
open location "cifs://SERVER/SHARE"
end try
end tell


For Mac OS 10.2:

tell application "Finder"
try
mount volume "cifs://SERVER/SHARE"
end try
end tell


Replace SERVER and SHARE for the name of the server and share you are wanting to mount at startup. Drag the AppleScript you've created into the Login Items preference window (System Preferences/Login Items).

If you wish to mount volumes automatically without entering your username and password (if it is a user-level share), you will have to include this in the CIFS URL. For example:

cifs://DOMAIN;USERNAMEASSWORD@SERVER/SHARE

If not, you will be prompted for this information before the volume will mount. Restart your Macintosh and login, and the volume will mount on your desktop momentarily.

Please remember that if you use any special characters in a username, password or server, you must change them as follows:

@ to %40
: to %3A
; to %3B
/ to %2F
to %20

 

[JensCB]

Thanks for the reply

Is this the way to do it. Isn't it possible to change something on the server?

Regards
Jens

 

[devastator]

This is how we do it here since most of our stations are XP and the MAC users would like to have the same access to shares as the XP users. Within the defaut shares I have created MAC folders for the MAC users to share their data but for the most part they use Adobe products and interchange their stuff with the XP Adobe users thus using the same share as each other.

That script basically mirror our NT login script for mapping drives and home directories off of the NT server and onto the MAC.

Hope that makes sense.

 

[JensCB]

Thank you

I will try that.

Regards
Jens

 

[innuit12]

Mac's are really touchy about the number of share points they allow - and I should qualify this by explaining that to a Mac - a share point is any folder or file underneath a share. So if you have 10 shares each with a couple hundred files in them - then to a Mac you have a couple hundred share points. Anyway - there are a couple ways to address the speed issue. Break out your directory into a bunch of shares with smaller numbers of folder and files in them. The other way is to map directly to the folder you want - instead of browsing to it.