Windows Server - Mac Client Permission Issues?

[ShaneCF]

To start off, I'll summarize our current set-up. We've got Contribute
Publishing Server running on Windows Server 2003. We have numerous Contribute
clients spread out over our campus. They've all been using Windows XP. They
connect via the LDAP settings in Active Directory. We're using Local/Network
as our connection method. We have been encountering no difficulties using the
software in this manner... at least until we tried installing the software on a
Mac.

We've currently tried two different Macs. The one in my office is OS X
10.4.9. I have successfully installed Contribute on it. The way we've been
making people connect to our server is via Connection Keys. We learned that we
could not use our old Connection Key, since it was created on a Windows
platform. So, instead, I begin the process of setting up a manual connection.

I enter our URL (we've actually been using an [url]http://SERVERNAME[/url] address with
Contribute) and tell it to connect to a Website. I enter Local/Network. I
specify the mounted drive which appears as WWWROOT in the text box. I click
Continue. Now it has me log in after telling me that the server is managed by
CPS. It synchronizes some templates, which look kind of odd as it does so. In
the file name listings as it works I see some ASP code. Not sure why, but it
finishes and I see that our website has a connection established.

I click the website name. It takes me to the home page. A bar appears at the
top of the page. "You don't have permission to edit this page." Wait... what?
I have full permission to edit everything when I log in elsewhere. In fact, on
this Mac, every single page says this. I refresh the page and now it says
"Contribute has disabled your connection to this website because an unknown
error occurred." Hmm. I click the New button at the top... and I don't have
access to any of the website's templates. In fact, I can't create anything. I
hit the Connect button and it tells me "Access Denied. The file may not exist
or there could be a permission problem."

I'm at a loss for words. How/why could this be happening? Does anyone have
any ideas?

[lisa3711]

Have you tried creating the connection by manually inputting all appropriate info? We gave up on the keys awhile ago.