At 6:50 AM -0700 1/30/09, Bruce Johnson posted: > On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Steve R wrote: >> >> I've been at this most of the day and into the night, resetting >> several times, reformatting twice and although I can get into the >> D-Link interface same as yesterday, I still can't get the drive to >> mount to create shared folders. It came up in Finder and each time I >> clicked on it, it disappeared again. I'm going to resort to having my >> PC friend use the Easy Find Application on his computer to set up >> sharing, and hope I don't have to install Windows to maintain the >> drive. It's a nice enclosure, quiet as a mouse, with pretty blue >> lights so I'm willing to live with a little formatting problem ;-) > > I'm willing to bet your friend will have problems, too, because I > think it's defective. Return it for a replacement.
The PC was able to mount the NAS without any problem (once my neighbour mapped to the right drives) but I still had a problem here. Slept on it for a while, and then my eye caught that Finder's Command-k assumes afp:// -- Duh! Once I changed that to smb:// I can connect without any problem. /me idiot. Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
