On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Dan wrote:
My housemate's PowerBook G4 (Tiger), is connected to our lan by
either cat5 or wi-fi...
In the Sharing system preferences pane, the name is "karens-
powerbook". And the text displayed when you activate sharing says
to use karens-powerbook.home.
Regular file sharing works fine - the PB advertises itself as
"karens-powerbook".
Windows sharing, tho, is acting a bit strange. When turned on, it
advertises itself across the network several times!
"karens-powerboo" is seen first, and it works fine.
(Ok, I'm playing fast'n'lose with the defn of "fine" - it functions
as expected).
I'm guessing there's a 15 char limit on the machine names, hence
loss of the k.
But then a short time later, the name "karens-PowerBoo" appears.
Connecting to it sometimes fails. When it works, it always fails
later during a file transfer, with a time-out. Fail = either a
message from my Mac saying the alias is borked, or Finder SPODs for
a while then says the remote isn't responding.
And a short time later, the name "Karens-PowerBoo" appears. This
one never works. After a brief SPOD I get the standard alias
borked message.
Where are those other names coming from?
How do I make them go away?
...I thought about trying to connect from a Windows system, but I
don't have a working one here currently, as our one real PC is
mostly doing BSODs, since a storm last week.
Thanks,
- Dan.
Can you try to shorten the name, maybe the Windbloze is confusing the
connection and retrying to connect hence the multiple tries. I know
you said the first is successful but the machine may not realize it?:-)
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my TiBook 500
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