I’ve been assisting a client of mine in California with getting a number of Macs connected to a new SBS 2003 server for one of his installations. We have been able to get most of the issues resolved, but he hit me with one recently that I couldn’t nail down immediately. One of the newer Macs could not load http://companyweb from Safari.
At the time of his request, I was off site, and as a quick check, I made a VPN connection to another client site from my PowerBook and attempted to load companyweb from that site in Safari. I couldn’t make an immediate connection, which I wrote off as DNS. However, I did try to connect using the SSL interface to companyweb: https://servername:444/ which connected immediately. I was prompted for a username and password (understandable since the Mac does not have Windows authorization credentials cached) and got in to browse through all of the pieces of companyweb.
I reported this back to my client, but wanted to do a full examination in my test network. Here’s what I found…
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