lforbes
Fri Mar 28 12:48:01 PDT 2008
Hi,
That may be indeed true. Isn't Windows 2008 server still in RC? I didn't
think they have released the finished version yet but I may be wrong.
That being said I share my Vista machine at home between my XP machines with
no issues either way.
Cheers,
Lara
"Ziga Jakhel" wrote:
> Hi, Lara!
>
> Thanks for the input... since Vista clients work, I strongly suspect
> SMB. I know what the docs say (which presently isn't all that much), but
> as a developer also know the differences to world-as-built :)
>
> The fqdn naming gives the same results.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ziga
>
> lforbes wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't think it is an SMB issue. According to MS's site the SMB session is
> > set based on the clients.
> >
> >
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726965.aspx
> >
> > "Computers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista support both SMB 1.0
> > and SMB 2.0. The version of SMB that is used for file sharing operations is
> > determined during the SMB session negotiation. The following table shows
> > which version of SMB that is used for various combinations of client and
> > server computers."
> >
> > I haven't worked with 2008 yet and don't have any plans too for at least a
> > year. Maybe there is an update for Windows XP and 2003 in order to connect to
> > 2008?
> >
> > Have you tried mapping to the share using \\server\share and
> > \\server.domain.local\share?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lara
> >
> > "Ziga Jakhel" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, everyone!
> >>
> >> I've just installed Windows 2008 Enterprise in a Virtual PC 2007 virtual
> >> machine.
> >> The server is set up as a PDC with it's own domain forrest, and has a
> >> DNS server.
> >>
> >> DNS resolves Ok, but I have 2 major issues.
> >>
> >> 1) If connecting to/from WinXP / Windows 2003 computer, the network
> >> share is visible, but I cannot copy files. The operation fails after a
> >> few seconds, with the "Network name cannot be found" (or "is not
> >> available") error.
> >>
> >> This works OK, if the client is Vista, so I presume it's a SMB 2.0
> >> issue. Any hints on how to force the w2k8 box to use SMB 1.0?
> >>
> >> 2) From the w2k8 box, I cannot browse to www.microsoft.com,
> >> www.mozilla.com, and a few other international sites. DNS resolution
> >> works fine (ping is ok), website is found, but I get stuck on the
> >> "waiting for response".
> >> Local (in my country) sites work fine; everything works fine from other
> >> computers in my main domain.
> >>
> >> Help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Sigmund Jakhel
> >> Integrum IT, Slovenia, Europe
> >>
>