On 11/9/2002 6:58 PM Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>At 1:32 PM -0600 11/9/2002, Vaughan, John wrote:
>>I've had this problem for a while, but I just got around to asking about it.
>>I'm on an 8600/G4, running 9.2.2, but when I first noticed the problem, I
>>was running 9.1. Problem has stayed consistent despite the upgrade.
>>
>>My file sharing will not turn on. When I start up, it starts "starting up",
>>but it nevers gets so that it shows "file sharing on". It just stays set at
>>"starting up" with the little blinking thing on the file sharing folder.
>>I've trashed File Sharing prefs and the File Sharing CP Prefs folder, but
>>that didn't change anything. Any suggestions?
>
>
>This is usually due to a corrupt AppleShare PDS file.  This is an 
>invisible file in the root folder of any shared harddisk.  It stores 
>the sharing information for each folder.  If it get's munged it can 
>cause File Sharing  to never complete startup.
>
>To fix this you need a tool that will let you make an invisible file 
>visible.  ResEdit is my tool of choice.  Make the file visible, throw 
>it in the trash and then try starting up File Sharing.  If it works 
>then go ahead and empty the Trash.  If it doesn't you may want to 
>restore the file to it's original location and re-cloak it.


Yes, I had this problem a couple of years ago and trashing AppleShare PDS 
is what fixed it. I used FileBuddy to make it visible in order to trash 
it.

Turtle-Bear

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