Office 2011 issue with private SMB shares, ok with public SMB shares.

Issue:
When we connect to an SMB or AFP share, ie. (smb://frog/home/user/) which is a windows 2008 R2 file server, the connection is fine. We can open all files except Office files. These .../home/user/ shares are locked down in AD being that this is the users home, private, directory.
If we open a public share, with permissions in AD set to allow read/write to all authenticated users, we can open all files, including office files, with no problems.
NOTE:
If we use iWorks Pages, Numbers, or Keynote on our Microsoft files all .docx, pptx, xlsx, doc, xls, and ppt files open fine. This shows me that its not a permissions issue on the file server.
Info:
All Mac's are running Mountain Lion 10.8
All Mac's are members of our 2008 AD domain.
All Mac's are running MS Office 2011 v14.2.3
Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

I have a similar problem, but this time with a shared printer on a windows 7 laptop. If I connect the laptop via a wired connection then other wired (windows 7) PC's can print to my usb connected and shared printer but if I connect via wireless then the printer remains offline to these other PC's.
So it looks like some form of isolation is going on but I can't see any configuration for it. Did you resolve your issue ?
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The latest OS is 10.8.2. You've posted in the Lion (OS 10.7.x) forum.
...I don't have a clue what can be going wrong, it was all working fine on my macbook pro with Snow Leopard and the same setup is not working with Mountain Lion on the retina, ...The only reason I upgraded from Office 2008 was because I couldn't get it to stop closing down every few seconds with 'a problem'...
Different operating systems canNOT be the "same setup."
In my original installation of Office 2011 on a 2007 MBP with OS 10.6.8, I followed the guidelines Tips for a Successful Install. In launching Outlook 2011 for the first time, it recognized that I had Entourage 2004 and I was chose the option to have all the data transferred to Outlook 2011. While that was well over a year ago, I'm fairly certain that I did not need to manually set up my multitude of existing email accounts. Subsequently, I've added new accounts. A couple of months ago, I got a new mid-2012 MBP (non-retina) with OS 10.7.4. I used Pondini's advice , which I found here in the Apple Support Community for OS 10.7, to setup the new MBP from the old MBP with Setup Assistant. Afterwards, I manually installed my applications. I am certain that I did not need to manually setup any email accounts when I launched Outlook 2011.
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HTH

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1. smb://FreeNAS
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None works.
I have checked the log files /var/log/samba4/log.smbd and /var/log/messages on the server, but they do not provide any error messages in this respect.
Based on declure's suggestion, I have copied a new Word file to the server -> disconnected from the server -> reconnected using 'cifs://servername' -> opened the Word file and tried to save it -> same error message ("Word cannot save this document due to a naming or permissions error on the destination volume."). As this works in Win7 it seems as the real problem resides not with the application (or is Office for mac faulty?), but with OSX.
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tibor.moldovan
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I know have to add buddies to all the internal employees in order for them to see her. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Are you saying you HAVE added them, and none show?
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cpguru21
tibor.moldovan:
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Tim:
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Thanks for reply Tim.
The "issue" may not be an issue. the issue may be my understanding of workgroups and how they come into play for iChat.
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when I added a particular user to ichat, from our internal jabber (ichat) server, the account added fine, however there were no other users in the list.
all other users that I added:
when adding to our internal ichat server, all of the other users showed up.
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