Connecting Windows Clients to OS X Server Mountain Lion

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Connecting Windows Clients to OS X Server Mountain Lion

I can't seem to find any documentation on connecting windows clients to the myriad of services my OS X Server Mountain Lion server is serving up. I know it isn't going to be as easy as downloading a trust profile and that it would have to be done manually, but I haven't seen any info on how. All I've gotten to work is file sharing. I almost got Outlook to connect to mail, but I'm getting the stupid "554 5.7.1" error - able to receive, not able to send out. That's another issue entirely. But, what I really want to know is can Windows clients make use of everything else - calendars, reminders, messages, the directory, and VPN? What do I need to do? Any good resources out there?

iMac, OS X Server

Posted on Oct 18, 2012 5:29 PM

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marshillnetwork

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Oct 26, 2012 10:54 AM in response to niocosys

You have been able to connect Windows 7 to a file share? I have not been able to do that. I have been able to get the messages working for windows clients. How did you get Windows to connect to the file share? we are running Active directory as well.

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Oct 26, 2012 11:46 AM in response to marshillnetwork

marshillnetwork wrote:

You have been able to connect Windows 7 to a file share? I have not been able to do that. I have been able to get the messages working for windows clients. How did you get Windows to connect to the file share? we are running Active directory as well.

For file sharing, I simply made sure the location was being shared over SMB and then in Windows Explorer mapped the location - //servername.domainname.TLD/MainSharedFolder. It even connects on startup, no problem. I don't think I'm running and Active Directory, just Open Directory.

How did you get messages to work?

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Oct 26, 2012 12:11 PM in response to niocosys

I had to make sure the user was in a group and then also make sure the service for that user is alowed to use messenger. For authentication makesure when you fill in the user that us use the full user name user@sub.domain.co.

For my problem I cant seem to get past the authentication screen. like it knows there is a server and a file share but it never authenitcates fully it just keeps going back to the authentication form. I even put in the DOMAIN/user name.

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Oct 27, 2012 7:07 PM in response to niocosys

Your issues with mail are probably due to a configuration problem as it should behave like any other POP3/IMAP server. Maybe check into the authentication methods and the SSL certificate you may or may not be using.

As for the other services, web/wiki should be accessible through most browsers, calendar requires a CalDAV compliant client, contacts a CardDAV compliant client, iChat/Messages is simply a jabber messaging server.

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Oct 27, 2012 11:16 PM in response to infinite vortex

infinite vortex wrote:

Your issues with mail are probably due to a configuration problem as it should behave like any other POP3/IMAP server. Maybe check into the authentication methods and the SSL certificate you may or may not be using.

As for the other services, web/wiki should be accessible through most browsers, calendar requires a CalDAV compliant client, contacts a CardDAV compliant client, iChat/Messages is simply a jabber messaging server.

Thanks infinite vortex. I've found several posts regarding the 554 5.7.1 error with mail (pasted below for others' convenince), just not comfortable with going that route. I tried settings the authentication every possible way, but it breaks mail for OS X and iOS clients, unless it is set to Open Directory. My cert could be part of the problem . . . I bought one, but don't know how to install it. Working on that.

Anyway, the issues aside, I was wanting some sort of guided that encapsulated getting all services to work on Windows clients. I'll eventually get the issues resolved, but wanted to see the process in practice in the meantime. If Microsoft's products simply aren't compliant, that'd be fine . . . strange, but fine. I'd just like to see some documentation that states that upfront and clearly, pref from Apple.

554 5.7.1 posts:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2056968?answerId=9711619022#9711619022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4416538?answerId=19965174022#19965174022

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3023

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