I have a small LAN at home (5 Macs, two printers, an original AirPort Base Station). They're all hung off a Netgear FS308 10/100 switch, and the switch is attached to a Netgear RT311 router that's connected to an aDSL terminal adapter. I use private IP addresses in the 192.168.0.x range. Neither the router nor the Base Station is configured to function as a dhcp server.
I use a progam called Synchronize! Pro X to keep several clusters of files-including my Entourage database-the same on two of the Macs (a 400 MHz TiBook and a dual 1 GHz "mirrored doors" G4). Most of the Macs run OS X 10.2.1. I'm VERY careful to run the applications whose documents I synchronize ONLY on the Mac with the latest version of those files between synchronizations. In the past few days several related things have gone astray: 1. I plug the PowerBook into the LAN, whereupon messages pop up on the PB and the Mirrored Doors G4 telling me that their IP addresses are already in use, assigned by a dhcp server. When this happens, I cannot access the internet, even though my manually configured network preferences are unchanged. 2. Once this started happening, attempts to retrieve mail in Entourage are PAINFUL! If the PowerBook isn't connected, Entourage retrieves the list of messages to be read on my POP server, then hangs with spinning beach ball. If I walk away from the Mac and return 60 minutes later, SOMETIMES the messages have been retrieved, but sometimes the beachball is still spinning. 3. If the TiPB is physically connected to the LAN by an ethernet cable but its tcp/ip preferences are set to its dial-up mode, mail-retrieval misbehaves slightly differently. From the dual 1 GHz, a dialog pops up asking me to connect to server TiPB. I click the "cancel" button, one more message gets read, then the dialog appears again. My interpretation of all this is that SOMETHING on my LAN is acting as a dhcp server, and that for some reason Entourage thinks it's supposed to put new messages in the copy of my database file that's on the PowerBook, even though that database isn't open (nor is any Office application running on the PowerBook, since I have only one license for Office). My guess is that Rendezvous is somehow responsible for this, but since there's no user interface for Rendezvous I have no way to check this out. Can anybody offer suggestions how I should explore this? The only other thing I can think of that I've added to my mix recently is installation of Retrospect Workgroup Backup. I've done an initial scripted backup from the dual 1 GHz to an internal drive, and Retrospect reported some problems from the backup session (I suspect because it ran while several files were open). Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Jim Robertson -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
