OSX lion Server and Windows XP client- acces problem

[stevegp]

Hi all,
I´ve recently purchased a mac mini server running lion and the lion server app.
We have 4 PC´s running Win XP SP2 and one running Win 7, plus mac´s.
The mac´s and the Win 7 machine can access the server just fine.
The Win XP machines don´t resolve the name of the server properly in the network listing, and can´t access the server, are there any known issues with
PC´s running XP SP2 accesing a Lion Server.

I´m not getting any success, and am starting to pull my hair out !

Thanks in advance

Steven

 

[ernopena]

Use IP address instead of server name

Have you tried connecting to the OS X Server using the IP address instead of the server name on the XP PC's?

 

[ohsnap]

Lion uses SMB2 found in Vista and later, not in XP. Win7 uses SMB2 which is why you can mount Lion shares in Win7.