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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?

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...

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...

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...

Oh the curse of downloading too many unix tinkerers!!!! I am trying to reinstall my system, however on going through the installer, and it gets to the screen to select a disk, my hard disk is dimmed and the message " This disk is dimmed because this MACOSX CD installs differant languages" Now...

I am having all sorts of problems trying to connect to a PC using DAVE, SMB whatever, basically its seeing nothing whatsoever, and when I try and do via the terminal or the address box in connect I get "can't get server address `netbiosname':" What is going on? Thx in advance...

I have two macs linked via ethernet, thing is I can't connect as it wont accept any password that I have???? And it wont accept guests, anyone know how I can turn on simple guest access, I've been everywhere in the system to no avail? Is netinfo the answer?

I'm having some problems with a 3Com ADSL router/modem, and of course in typical tech-support style, they've given me the following instruction, without offering any instruction of how to do it? Telnet to the 612 and complete the following sending me the output. 1/ list call events 2/...

I am finding the refresh on the contents of windows rather frustrating, only clicking on a file con, will make it update, if anything has changed (thus date modified becomes obsolete!) Also the other day a user copied a file across a network to a folder on the network for me, the window which...

OSX crashed for the first time last night (yuck code everywhere-definately preferred the little bomb icon ;-)) However the reason was basically my usb audio driver, which is what powers the sound to my sound stick, which are very buggy so far on OSX (ie sound just goes mute then have to go...

Is there any means via software/terminal to determine the ftp port no etc, as I am having no ends of trouble trying to ftp to a site, and I'm getting an "illegal port error when trying to ftp in Dreamweaver, fetch just doesn't work either" So I would like to determine whether the mac, airport...

That's it really, something along the lines of the sanyo mini-disc remote (ie its the same shape and could accomodate the wheel), as snazzy as the iPod is to show off, I'm tired of having to get it out of my bag/pocket/case every time I want to change something.

Have a problem printing, I currently have my airport linked to my DSL router, as my internet connection the ethernet cable of my printer is linked to my ethernet port on the back of my TiBook. Configuration works fine to print in OS9, if appletalk is set to ethernet. Printer/internet work no...

Upon opening the terminal window I get this.... [thisaddressdoesnotexist:~] wilyum% Have tried logging in as root, other user etc, comes up with the same thing, what have I done? And how can I fix it?

Hi got a G4 667mhz Tibook with an airport base station, up to a few weeks back everything was working fine in both OSX and OS9 however suddenly one day in OSX my airport network icon on the menu bar was greyed out as it said there were no networks to connect to, so I had all sorts of panics, and...

What is wrong with my supposed super-fast osx, when it starts up, as it gets to configuring network time, the progress bar stops for about 3 minutes, then shoots through the rest, I also find that when installing it flies through the supposed install, but then when it comes to configuring...