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Could it be a wonky network card? You didn't mention if your friend's
PowerBook could communication via TCP/IP. Other than that you'd done
everything else that I would have done.
> Dean Suhr wrote:
>
> 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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