Connecting to Server Error code -36

The Pinging I can understand. If i remember right the way Windows deals with pings is that it ignores them, maybe i'm wrong, but thats what i remember. MacOSX is configured to respond to them by default. If you can connect to your Windows Box are you logging in as yourself, or as a guest. Another thing to try would be using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection and see if that works out, just to make sure that you can connect.

Hi Randi,
Can you help by providing the Windows version that's on the PC?
There are some specific things to do, depending on that.
Have you found anything by searching this Discussions Group (getting online..) for keywords like '36' or 'error 36'?

Is there an account on the PC with the same shortname as you have on your mac? Same password? Sometimes this will help. Need more info on WinVersion.

Can you connect going the other way?
(Getting to any shared folders on the Mac, while sitting at the PC?)

1) Pinging the XP by name doesn't, or pinging by IP doesn't work?
a) Can you ping it by IP only? Go to tne properties of the LAN connection and enable NetBios. Now the name should be pingable.

2)XP has some digital signing that you might be able to get to easily if you have XP Pro (this job will be tougher if it's XP Home)
2a) Which XP have you got?
2b) Search this group for the phrase 'digital signing' and there are several references to XP/Samba

3) I would not leave your mac sending unencrypted passwords. Reverse that step.

The XP firewall is off, or the Mac firewall?

Any messages about SMB in finder->applications->utilities->console->
logs->console log or system log?

I have the same error "the finder cannot complete the operations because some data in smb://........../ files could not be read or written. (error code -36)." when a log to the university smb server. they have apple's article for Mac OS X.4 "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301580".

But the solution does'nt work with Mac OS X.4.2 !

My console don't show :
"mount_smbfs: session setup phase failed"
but it show :
"mount_smbfs: error from NetrShareEnum call: status = 0x00000005
mount_smbfs: unable to list resources: raperr = 5 (0x0005)"

Thank for help

Guillaume,

This is probably from being unable to receive data from the adapter or from the server. Are your adapters/cables/routers OK? Is this ethernet, wireless, or other?

What kind of a server is it?

I use Wireless (from PCMCIA)to get my data from server. To access internet I use Netlock VPN Client for Cisco 3000 from compagny Netlock Technologies Inc.

I have the exact same problem.

- I used to be able to log in to my PC using SMB for 2 years
- Since I upgraded my Airport Express to 6.2 it stopped working
- I downgraded to 6.1.1 with no luck
- I can access my PC using VNC
- I can still access my Mac from my PC (Windows XP2)

- Trying to connect to the IP number via Samba results in a time out:

mount_smbfs: negotiate phase failed: syserr = Operation timed out

- Trying to connect to my server name results in following error:

mount_smbfs: can't get server address `PC':
Unknown host
mount_smbfs: can't get server address: syserr = Network is down

I searched all forums but found no working solution. Any hints? I was thinking of setting up an FTP server on my PC as an alternative. Is there some downside to FTP versus SMB?

All help appreciated

This is just amazing. After I tried to connect to my server using ftp I was able to log in again using the normal samba method.

Guess I solved my own problem, hope it works for others as well...

🙂

sorry iPeleus, could you please explain how you solved the problem again 🙂

I have the same problem, except my console log/message says: "mount_smbfs: negotiate phase failed: syserr = Operation timed out"

so did you go "Connect to server" and instead of putting smb://... you put ftp://... is that correct??
cos that didn't work for me unfortunately 😟
well i did get asked for my username and password when i connected via the ftp way... but then get error message "Could not connect to the server because the name or password is not correct".. which is not the case, because they are correct 😟

so i have gone "connect to server", and used FTP instead of smb...
i now get asked to enter in username and password.. which i do, my PC username and password... but then i get a message saying "could not connect to the server beacuse the name or password id incorrect"
but it IS correct... and i have set up the workgroups to be the same too...

what could it possibly be??... arrrgh, i'm going crazy here!! :-S