User Authentication Method not found?

Question

I'm using OSX but a co-worker is running 9.2.2 and is having trouble accessing a server on the corporate Microsoft network.
I can get to the server using OSX but when she selects the server (which does show up in the Chooser list) she gets an error message saying that "the User Authentication Method could not be found" and she should check the AppleTalk folder in her extensions folder. AppleTalk folder? Check it for what?
What must we do to get access to the new server?
Thanks.

Answer 1

For OS 9 to talk to an MS server requires that the server has Client Services for Macintosh fired up and yes, sometimes also that the client Mac has a Microsoft User Authentication Module installed and configured.
Microsoft says that without the MS UAM, she should still be able to
Log on to the special Microsoft UAM Volume on the computer running Windows 2000 Server to access the MS UAM file.
If she can't get that far and there are no other symptoms, the network administrator needs adjust the security settings on the server, or reinstall Client Services for Macintosh…
Then drag the MS UAM file to your AppleShare(c) Folder in your System Folder. Instructions follow. (Users outside North America, see the "International Concerns" section later in the Release Notes before proceeding.)
To gain access to the Microsoft Authentication files on the computer running Windows 2000 Server
1. On the Macintosh Apple menu, click Chooser.
2. Double-click the AppleShare icon, and then click the AppleTalk(c) zone in which the computer running Windows 2000 Server, with Services for Macintosh, resides. (Ask your system administrator if you're not sure of the zone.)
3. From the list of file servers, select the Windows 2000 Server computer, and then click OK.
4. Click the Registered User or Guest option, as appropriate, and then click OK.
5. Click the Microsoft UAM Volume, and then click OK.
6. Close the Chooser dialog box.
To install the authentication files on the Macintosh workstation
1. On the Macintosh Desktop, double-click the Microsoft UAM Volume.
2. Locate the "MS UAM Installer" file on the Microsoft UAM Volume, then double-click it.
3. Click Continue in the installer welcome screen.
The installer will report whether the installation succeeded.
If the installation has succeeded, when Macintosh users of this workstation connect to the Windows 2000 Server computer, they will be offered Microsoft Authentication.