Hi Mark, My next guess would be to see if someone loaded fonts over the network from both Machines A & C. When the font app starts up it may be trying to activate these remote fonts. Why it doesn't ask for machines A/C if they are OFF, is a little puzzling... Coj Mark Gibson <gibsonm at bigpond.net.au> At 13:49 -0700 27/2/05, Doug McNutt wrote: >At 07:14 +1100 2/28/05, Mark Gibson wrote: >>As of yesterday morning one of the machines (lets call it machine >>B) is acting very peculiar. If machines A and C are already on when >>machine B is started, machine B displays dialogue boxes about >>"trying to contact machine A / C". > >Back in classic the AppleShare Chooser plugin used to offer a check >box for "if checked the item will be automatically opened at >startup". There is probably something similar in OS neXt. <snip> > >-- Doug, Hence my asking them to check System Preferences -> Accounts -> Startup Items which is the equivalent of the "AppleShare Preferences" file in pre X days. I'm going in there today so hopefully we can sought it out. -- Regards, Mark (}-: +61 (0)4 1927 7198 Skype / AIM / iChat: gibsonm1 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. --Harlan Ellison _______________________________________________ X4U mailing list X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u