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Thanks for the information. :)

Hi I've recently been given a Windows NT filesystem disk that does not allow me to write to it, only read? What can I do? Why is this the case? I always thought OSX was the best OS for being able to work with all formats. Is there anyway around this?

Thanks :-)

My home is blessed with two apple laptops, My wife usually has her ibook upstairs next to the bed, whilst mine usually stays overnight in the study. Now I have a user set up on her machine, so I can receive mail etc, however I would really love to be able to log-in on her machine, and have...

Went away for the weekend, switched the electricity off, when I came back and plugged it all back in the airport, didn't function, the right light on the LED went to Amber and that was that. I tried hard resets, where the centre light went amber and I could then see the airport via an...

I would like to make a list of people who can access my shared folder How do I do it? If I add user, I get a whole new directory for them etc, which I definately don't want, 20 odd folders in the users directory. Any ideas?

If I have shared my public folder, how can I see who is connected to my drive and preferably send them a msg to disconnect etc... thanks in advance...

I am having a very bizarre problem which I don't know how to fix or what may have caused it by basically all my menubar items ie clock, sound, airport, monitors etc etc are duplicated in my menu bar, ie it loads normally then it loads them all again. Now I've searched for any duplicate files...

Yeah thought it might be that... thanks for the help...

HI Anyone actually get to see their PC friends on AOL IM? I can see my mac.com friends, but not my AIM friends (ie people who aren't using ichat) ie their screen name is (for example): blahblahblah Now when I add that it doesn't see a thing Then when I go into the hideous AIM client...

Thanks for that, I thought it was the NAT so I switched it off, but unfortunately then my whole internet connectivity went down :confused: What address then should be used for websharing and such? OSX.2 networking is much improved from a surface point of view at least...

I am having an awful time with the file sharing/networking on my computer. Previously due to my ISP I was having the problem, but it was only showing up in the terminal, now it is showing up in the new sharing settings in Jaguar... http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15256...

As someone who has been "lucky" enough to use 10.2GM for real, there are speed gains on some aspects of the OS ie startup etc, but that's as far as it goes, menu still seem, system prefs take forever to lag and don't expect your programmes to perform anything near the way they did (and still...

Ah I sorted it all out, turned out to be that the links were downloading nothing or a startup item installer and not the real thing, searched for the real thing on entropy and sorted it out. Might be an idea to edit the links at the start of this thread though :-) Thanks for the help

this is what came up when I tried to restart apache... httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful: httpd started and any idea of how I would fix it? also once Ive downloaded the mysql thing and set...