Did you know? #1
Did You Know that for some reason you can’t connect to an administrative share on a Windows box from OS X?
I’m not 100% sure if there is something I missed, but finder kept hitting me with ‘Error - 43′ after authentication..
I had to create a folder in the drive root (D:\Folder) for example, enable sharing and set the appropriate permissions to allow the share to be written to.
Whilst THIS doc on the Apple support site lists characters/permissions as the probable cause I stand by my observation that you can’t connect to a root drive share using the syntax ‘SMB://SERVER/D$’. That isn’t exactly sticking to the ‘It Just Works’ mantra that Apple is usually associated with :).
Correct me if i’m wrong, just remember i’m still new(ish) to the ways of the Mac and still don’t use one in anger yet.
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You’re right, at least as far as I know.
And (speaking from experience re: some emergency working-from-home at a previous job) that is just an utter pig of a design flaw.
I just don’t get it at all..
Running “SMBClient -L %HOST%” from the Mac console even lists all of the shares (IPC$, ADMIN$ as well as C$/D$ etc..) but I still can only connect to manually created ones.
GRRRRR.
It would be ok if either one of them could read each others native disk formats