connecting a mac to a win2k server

[yoja]

I have 4 mac's with OS10. One is located in another building (B). The buildings (A and B) are connected via a T1. The one (B) cannot connect to one of the W2K servers via the T. It can't even see the server. It can connect to a W2K server at it's location. The other three can connect fine. They can even see the server at the other location (B). Everything appears to be the same on all 4. Any ideas?

I'm not too familiar with Macs so give me the easy answers as well.

Thanks.

 

[dodge20]

Are there firewalls at each building? Do you have windows machines that connect? Do you have a VPN? A little more info is needed.

Dodge20

 

[yoja]

Only one firewall at building A. The windows pc's connect fine. The mac did also until recently. Nothing changed. No new software, etc.

 

[dodge20]

Is the firewall on - on the mac itself? This may be a question for the windows server forum, or even a networking forum, you might get better responses there.

Dodge20

 

[ObviousTroll]

Other questions:

Can the Mac ping the server?

Can it connect to the server if you manually type in the name of the server?

Browsing windows networks from a Mac can be problematic; in my own environment we have a problem where Windows laptops get plugged into the network and declare themselves to be the master network browser. For some reason this doesn't affect other windows boxes but it means my Mac starts querying the laptop when it browses the network.

Anyway, the upshot is that I ususally rely on typing the name of the server in by hand rather than using the network browser.