Here's an (incomplete) list of what the GlobalPreferences holds, and you may or may not be effected by these. The GlobalPreferences have a lot of random stuff in there, so it's important to know what this is. HOWEVER, there are some SERIOUS caveats here that may have 'severe' consequences. I fear either a corrupt file or an invisible file is the culprit.thoughts?Ī simple solution to a complex problem. I've reinstalled OS X on the PM.I've created a new 'dummy' account to see what was up. But my PM's user folder, and a couple of the other drives DON'T MOUNT and when I double click on the PM's shortcut again, the Volumes list shows THOSE volumes as greyed out. I click on some and they mount on my PowerBook. Via the Network Pane, I get to the password, and the volumes list pops up. My PowerMac all of the sudden, doesn't want to allow my PB to access SOME of the volumes, INCLUDING my user folder. And part of that 'highway' has broken down: I sit and swivel between the two while working and am often grabbing files from one and copying them to the other. Hey there.SIMILAR problem.I have a PowerMac hardwired to my wireless router and a PowerBook connecting to it via AirPort Express. After lots of preference-juggling, I stumbled across this invisible file that made the difference. The same server worked fine from other accounts on the system. Result: I couldn't log into that server at all from the Finder, whether it be via AppleTalk or SMB. In my case, it didn't, and it saved those prefs.

Normally, if this doesn't work, the Finder will tell you. Im my case, I turned off 'Clear text passwords' and enabled SSH. When the login window popped up, I clicked on the Options button and entered some (apparently) bad settings and saved. ist by typing the following in the terminal: rm ~/Library/Preferences/.istBack story: When connecting to my local file server, I entered the IP address in the Connect to. If you have problems connecting to a server using the 'Connect to.' dialog box in the Finder (with the server known to be functional, and working from other accounts on the same machine), try deleting the invisible file ~/Library -> Preferences ->.

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