Just wanted to jot this down while I had it on my mind. We have 2 MAC users here which connect to our main file server (W2k3 R2).

The shares these users needed were always shared out as "MAC Shares" so when we recently upgraded our server from 2000 to 2003-R2. I coordinated with them to see if they still needed the shares shared out as MAC.

One user told me he no longer needed the shares shared out for MACs and that with OS X he is able to connect to the shares using smb://server/shareName so after the hardware migration he had no issues at all and I did not share out as MAC shares. Of course then the 2nd guy said he could not connect to the shares. Here are a couple of issues I ran into:

Follow up:

If you try to connect to a MAC share on a Windows box SMB://server will show you the Windows shares but none of the shares that are also shared out as MAC shares. The only way to connect is to type the EXACT path.

If you enable the "File Server for Macintosh" service, the user can connect type afp://server and a list of all the MAC shares will be displayed.

If you share out as a MAC share, the default under General Settings is "This volume is read-only."

So long story short, the best way I've seen is to not use the afp or Mac File Server and just connect to your Windows shares via SMB.

This all may seem elementary to some, but I never work on MACs so I had to make the note to myself for future reference :) If anyone wants to put down any other words of advise or correct me anywhere I have misspoken, please feel free!

Here's a related article since I kind of rambled out gibberish: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106471