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Users on our some of our Mac clients have started being unable to logout without power cycling the machine. They get an error message 'Connection Failed' when they try to logout. Clicking OK just brings it back again. There is no indication which server or service is the problem. On the...

DHCP used to work on our eMacs - now it doesn't! As a work round I've reset to static IP addresses for now, but would like to go back to DHCP if possible. From web searches, it seems there are 'issues' with the Apple DHCP client, but haven't seen reports of anything this drastic. PCs (Win XP &...

Is it my imagination or are the categories you are given when you submit a question totally different to the forum organisation? E.g. there is no category for network problems when submitting, but there is a forum for network problems - ?

Mac OS X 10.4.6 (PowerPC) installed by CD onto PowerBook G4 OK, but update to 10.4.7 fails with a NSURLErrorDomain -1005 error. Other updates work OK however. Retry - download starts OK and gets part way in and then comes up with the same error. Presumably the error means it looks for a site...

I want upgrade our xserve from 2 x 250GB mirrored discs running Mac OS X 10.3.9 on xserve to running 1 x 250GB system disc (keeping other as spare) and 2 x 500GB mirrored data discs. (Then upgrade to Tiger). Can I break the software mirror with: diskutil destroyRAID /dev/disk{x} or does...

We have 6 eMacs running Panther and 2 running Tiger. One of the Panther eMacs has a Canon i9950 local printer (very good!) and another has an older HP DeskJet 1220C. I've shared the printers as network printers and installed them on each eMac. They kind of work, but users complain: 1) When...

I've just added a LaCie firewire external hard drive to our xserve to make a backup of data. It seems fine and auto-mounts as /Volumes/LACIE. I have no graphics card or remote desktop, so in an SSH session, I then tried tar'ing our /Users folder to the external disc with gzip included: tar...