<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To whom it may concern,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have done a fair amount of research and have started a mailing list for Macintosh users (macinsloan) so that we can remain independent of the Sloan support system, but I have one request that would make our lives much easier without disrupting Windows users.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mac users are unable to mount \\sloannt1\courses because of a configuration setting on the server. This server appears to be running Windows Server 2003, and is configured to refuse SMB connections unless they are encrypted. Encryption is not yet part of the SMB standard, and is therefore not supported by Macs. The other server we use at sloan (\\sloanfiles\) does not require encrypted SMB connections, and is accessible to Mac users.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is it possible to configure the \\sloannt1\ server to match the other server and accept unencrypted SMB traffic? </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If so, here is the procedure:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) From <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Administrative Tools</FONT>, open <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Domain Controller Security Settings</FONT>.<BR> Go to <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Local Policies</FONT> then <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Security Options</FONT>.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2) Scroll down to find the entry <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications (always).</FONT> Set this to Disabled.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3) The only thing left to do is to reload the security policy, as changes don’t otherwise take effect for some time. Open up a command window and type: <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">gpupdate</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101">Please let me know i</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101">f this is not possible, or if it doesn't work.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101">Thank you in advance for your time.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101">- John Harthorne</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000101">MBA 2007</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>