`Connection failed' - 10.6 filesharing problem
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 13 Jul 2010 11:34 Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > I've got two Intel Macs, both on 10.6, both connected to the gigabit > > > > Ethernet side of the home LAN (the rest of it's 100 Mbit/s). > > > > > > > > One of them is connected to the other doing file sharing. > > > > > > > > When I try to connect the other way, I get `connection failed'[1]. > > > > > > Mac OS X filesharing still doesn't work as reliably as that of System 7. > > > > Every time I go to connect to my wife's iMac, I have to wait while it > > says "Connecting..." until it says "Connection Failed" before I can > > click the "Connect As..." button to enter username and password which > > then connects without problem. Irritating, but I'm so used to it now I > > hardly even notice it. > > That may be a bad keychain whatsit, if a wrong user name/password combo > is sent it'll do that. I don't use the keychain for anything like that. The user name/password combo I used was unquestionably correct - I type it in rather a lot, y'know... <shrug> Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: whisky-dave on 15 Jul 2010 09:14
"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote in message news:1jlf4i4.1tarhd011e66b0N%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid... > I've got two Intel Macs, both on 10.6, both connected to the gigabit > Ethernet side of the home LAN (the rest of it's 100 Mbit/s). > > One of them is connected to the other doing file sharing. > > When I try to connect the other way, I get `connection failed'[1]. > > `But it worked fine yesterday', I bleated pathetically `And both of them > can see teh interweb an' all that'. > > Can anyone give me a pointer as to what to look at? I'm about to try > rebooting one then the other and I expect it'll all work perfectly okay > after I've done so. But I can't help feeling that there's a process > running on one other other of the Macs in question that just needs > restarting or similar. > > Anyone got a clue? I had a similar problem the other day. haven't found the exact cause but it was partly due to trying to screenshare with the wrong/username and password. But at the time my internet wasn;t working and the router betweent he compters also seemd slow and 'playing up' I don;t see why screensharing should be affected by the 'outside world' but it could have been that I use static IP adresses on my 3 macs. Because when the internet came back (faulty unit I assume) I had a simialr problem until I use automatic DHCP and ebeything was fine again. I plan to re-enact my problem at a later date to see if I can simulate it. > > Cheers, > Rowland. > > [1] Which is annoying: the iMac upstairs keeps the music on its huge > HDD, and I was wanting to play that music downstairs on the proper > stereo via the MacBook. Grr. > > -- > Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org > Sorry - the spam got to me > http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk > UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |