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2003 / file sharing problems

« on: August 09, 2003, 08:32:49 PM »

OK, disregard that last post. I should have followed every option posted to the end  


Kelly, has anyone told you that you are a genius?  

The link to file  sharing not being enabled did it. The data hard drive only had 80K left of space.  Erased 6mb of space and whamo! File sharing enabled!  

Thank you for all your help. Much appreciated. Now I don't have to rebuild the startup volume.  Saved me an hour of work. At least!

-Spiff    

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2003 / file sharing problems

« on: August 09, 2003, 08:25:15 PM »

Yup, appletalk is turned on. Even tried turning it off and starting sharing, but another dialog box came up and said appletalk must be turned on. And so it was. And so I got the message yet again.

Tried trashing the preferences. File sharing, system, all that related stuff. Still no dice.

Not sure what the connection referenece was referring to. I can still use their computer quite well without any other glitches. As a matter of fact, I am replying on it right now.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

-Spiff

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2003 / file sharing problems

« on: August 09, 2003, 03:00:41 PM »

Greetings all,

I am home for the weekend trying to get the parent's computer working again. They have a beige 300mhz AV powermac with 384 (give or take) of ram running OS 9.1. Firewire card installed and 8gig HD partitioned into 2 equal parts, one for programs/OS, one for data.

The problem: File sharing cannot be enabled. A storm rolled through here a couple days ago while the computer was on and the power went out. Upon restarting the computer, everything works fine except the file sharing. At startup, a dialog box pops up stating "File sharing could not be enabled". No error code or warnings.

Zapped pram, checked extensions and startup items - all active. Ran Norton DiskDoctor, no dice. Don't have diskWarrior, but I really don't think it works all that well (have had more problems after running it than before it was run). Tried turning on file sharing manually from the control panel - same dialog box. Cannot access the sharing portion of the Get Info window of the hard drives 'cause the file sharing is not enabled.      

Any idea what is going on? Any clue on what else to check? What am I overlooking that is staring me in the face? Anything else to do other than re-install the OS?

The parents use the powermac as the station to transfer files from their powerbook. That's why they need the file sharing on.

Thanks in advance!

-Spiff    

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2003 / pram battery

« on: June 29, 2003, 09:00:20 PM »

HEy TS-oholic, thanks for the link! Yup, that's exactly what I told my mom to do.  She thought she found the battery, but was not sure. After we got off the phone, my dad took a look at it. Apparently, there was a plastic cover over the battery in addition to the brackets holding it in. He took a small screw driver (cringe one) and pried it up to gain access to the battery. He then took a smaller screw driver (cringe two) and pried out the battery. They will go to radio shack tomorrow to get the replacement.

Sure hope the computer starts in the morning and that static did not fry the electronics. heh.  

-Spiff

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2003 / pram battery

« on: June 29, 2003, 07:23:25 PM »

Greetings! I have a question about replacing the pram battery on a beige G3 300mhz A/V computer (king at the time it was bought). Acutally, it's my mom's, and her clock keeps resetting to Augus t 1956. Sounds to me like the pram battery is dead.

I was able to walk her through (on long distance) taking off the side panel and lifting up the hard drive rack. However, from there I was lost and did not know where the battery was on the mother board. Mom thought she found it underneath a "silver card" that is responsible for the A/V ports on the back of the Mac. It's my understanding that this silver card is fastened firmly to the board.

I looked on Apple's web site and found technical manuals, though none for the beige G3 tower. I looked on xlr8yourmac and could not find pictures that adequately illustrated the area of concern.

Could you help me as to where I can find instructions/pictures to changing the pram battery in the beige G3 tower? These are the last of it's kind 'cause about 3-4 months later I bought a RevA/1 B&W (if that helps at all)

I thank you, my mom thanks you and my long distance phone company curses you.  

-Spiff