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:

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