Local network problem

[TOC]

I have a couple of mac mini's and i mac's (all mac only versions) we use OSX 10.4.11 and two of them no long see the other computers on the network, but they can get on the internet and connect ot the accounting system that is networked. I check that the file sharing is still on. I fixed one by updating it from 10.4 to 10.4.11 any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Whitehill]

Your description is a little ambiguous. You imply that all your machines were able to see each other at some point in the past. What OSX were you using then? It can't be 10.4.11 because you just updated one machine. What else has changed?

You haven't described your network at all. Wired? Wireless? If you are behind a router, what brand? Do your systems have fixed IP addresses, or do they receive info from a DHCP server?

 

[TOC]

Thanks for you reply. Today after shutting everything down for the weekend, the computers now see each other. The only change I made before this happened is one of the machines was 10.4.0 and all the others had the updates to 10.4.11. I upgraded this one machine from 10.4 to 10.4.11. then the next day nobody could connect to any other computer.

This is a wired network, with one laptop usually wired, but the Netgear router allows for wireless. Neither wired or wireless would connect to any other computer. The "alias" of all the computers would show up in some network folders but when you clicked on them the computer would unsuccessfully look for them until it timed out.

One technical guy I called says this may be a "hard lock out" and shutting the entire network down including routers might solve the problem. We may have done just that since we shut everything down over the weekend.

I'll post again if it happens again.

Thanks,