Next message: Tom Roth: "Re: [WinMac] AppleTalk - not seeing the zones"
Good Afternoon,
[I posted this to the Mac discussion list - and I'm about 99.9% sure that
this is not an interaction between the Mac and the NT server - but the
greater wisdom here might prevail on me if I'm wrong. ds]
I friend of mine has a PowerBook connected to a small network managed by
Windows BackOffice. Mysteriously over the weekend, he can no longer access
his AppleTalk zone, his AppleTalk ID is reported repeatingly as invalid, and
there is no default settings in his AppleTalk control panel.
The network is valid, other Mac's on the network see the zone, we tried
another port on the network as well with the same results.
Apple's TIL indicated that some G3's (not PowerBooks) could lose their
vision of the zones - that we should trash the prefs for AppleTalk, reset
the PRAM and reboot. I did that, and have subsequently reinstalled the OS
(9.0 plus 9.0.4 update).
The behavior remains the same. An alert window pops up on restart that says
that the AppleTalk network is available, but that we need to open and close
the AppleTalk control panel to continue. When the panel is opened an alert
says that our AppleTalk ID is invalid and that it will be reset when we
close the control panel. A quick peek at the configurations window shows NO
entries - not even a default entry. When I close the control panel I am
prompted to save the changes - but no entry shows up the next time I open
the configuration window. Closing the control panel brings back the
AppleTalk network is available but need to open and close alert again.
I have tried stopping and starting AppleTalk but all is the same. I do not
have manual ID selected. Also - there was no software installed for weeks
prior to the failure.
Your thoughts are appreciated.
Dean
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