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stiwi

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Nov 13, 2010
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I am running Mac Pro with 10.8.2 installed. My HTPC is running Windows 7 and need to access Mac Pro HDDs. Everything works fine until Mac Pro is switched off or restarted. Then I have to open sharing preferences, click option, untick and re-check SMB sharing in order for Windows 7 to be able to access them. Otherwise Windows ask for a password which there is none. Even if I set one it doesn't help either.

Any solution?
 

Imac Sam

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Oct 9, 2011
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Harrisonburg, Virginia
I have the same problem even when I am accessing Win-XP shares. The problem actually started in OS-X 10.7.

Would you by any chance have an SSD drive on your Mac? I do and I have a theory that the SSD is somehow too "fast" to allow the shares to mount properly at boot-up time.
 

stiwi

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Original poster
Nov 13, 2010
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I have the same problem even when I am accessing Win-XP shares. The problem actually started in OS-X 10.7.

Would you by any chance have an SSD drive on your Mac? I do and I have a theory that the SSD is somehow too "fast" to allow the shares to mount properly at boot-up time.

Yes, I do have OSX installed on SSD.
The issue is no annoying, because every time I want to use shared HDDs from my HTPC I have to manually re-check the boxes in sharing preferences.
 

Imac Sam

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Oct 9, 2011
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Harrisonburg, Virginia
Yes, I do have OSX installed on SSD.
The issue is no annoying, because every time I want to use shared HDDs from my HTPC I have to manually re-check the boxes in sharing preferences.

Yep the same for me as well.
I am going to clone my OS onto an external firewire drive as a test, and boot off of that to see if the sharing is working then.
 
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