Leopard and Windows Shares

Posted 10:00 PST Fri Nov 9, 2007 in Computing

I’ve had one problem with Leopard since installing it on my MacBook Pro — I was not able to mount the Windows share volumes at the office. I think I found the solution to the problem and it’s an interesting solution.

The solution was found ‘here”:http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/848405.html and involves escaping any special characters in the sign-in password. The code to accompilsh the work-around (if that’s what it is) is:

In my case, I have a special character in my current password. I nearly always include special characters in my passwords because they make passwords more secure. For some reason (probably a design decision), the unescaped version of my password is not correctly interpreted. So, my login to the shared volume fails. The escaped version, however, is working.