Posts by JimDreamworx

Quote: Originally posted by MacUsers if I installed Jaguar on the hard drive on a 15" CRT iMac ... plug it in to a power mac g4 with a 17" screen? This could be an issue, depending on the model iMac, as the ones that do...

Quote: Originally posted by Mount_my_floppy Well this is no permanent solution but if you need to find out the IP address of a computer your connected to you can always run netstat -n or tcpdump.. Thank you! This works well. I...

The idea is not to just connect to them via afp, but to be able to use other IP services, like VNC.

I had a Dual G4 867 OS X Server 10.2.6 box SHUT DOWN for no reason today. I have the same type of box, and with being brought down by the recent eastern seaboard blackout (even though I had a UPS keep it up for a bit), it wouldn't...

Try holding down the option key when booting, and see if the external hard drive shows up. Depending on the model Mac that has 9.2 installed, holding down the X key may or may not force the computer to boot off an OS X volume.

I have many Mac clients that gets their IP address from a DHCP server (I believe it is WINS), and each Mac has Personal File Sharing turned on. So the IP address always changes and I have no control over this in my company. Is there...

Try a freeware application called SharePoints.

Sounds like a kernel panic, and since it happens with a CD, sounds like the RAM is bad. Should be a quick fix if the company has it picked up and replaces the RAM.

If you can't boot an OS 9 CD to trash it, how about running the NetInfo Manager, activating the root account, Logging Out, Log In as Root, and trash it, Log Out, Log In as the regular user, run NetInfo Manager, and deactivate root.

Have you tried booting the OS X installer CD and running the Disk Utility from there to fix the permissions? Also, have you tried creating another user account, logging in with that account, and see if the Finder still crashes? Could...