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The commands work because the file occasionally becomes corrupt. These commands force it to be rewritten. The Terminal itself can be found in Applications > Utilities

Hi all, Took me a while to solve this one so thought I'd post. I've done a few recent upgrades and one of my macs could no longer see the samba shared disks on the other, or rather, they would show up and then disappear when I clicked on them. After a lot of trial and error, I discovered...

Just checked and there is a way to do it quicker: At the bottom below sharing and permissions is a cog like symbol. If you click on it and then "Apply to enclosed items" after having set up the permissions the way you want, it cascades the permissions all the way down. I did this on my user...

OK. Sounds like everything is up and running. The reason you can't access the User sub folders (annoying red minus) is because the default Sharings & Permissions forbid it (OSX Defaults). To change this : 1) Start at Macintosh HD\Users 2) Apple - I (for info) 3) Scroll down to Sharing and...

OK. Which File Sharing Protocol are you using? AFP, FTP or SMB? I use SMB because I have a network with both PCs and Macs. Can you see the target computer in the finder sidebar? Can both computers access Internet? What are the netBIOS names of each? What workgroup are they attached to? What...

Hashiri A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: Quote:"The symbolic link you recommended was already present on my system. " That's normal. The fix involves deleting it and recreating one. Quote:"The first command you gave would not have worked since the argument of the rm was a directory."...

Hey guys, Found your thread while looking for a solution to my "connection failed" local network error after upgrade to 10.5.7 and wanted to share the fix that solved it for me: sudo rm /System/Library/Filesystems/afpfs.fs sudo ln -s /System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext...