[X4U] 10.3 Sharing weirdness - FIXED

[Mark Gibson]

At 07:14 +1100 28/2/05, Mark Gibson wrote:
>I have a client with three workstations, all running 10.3.8. Each 
>machine has sharing turned on and they often link to each other to 
>share files. There is no dedicated server (yet).
>
>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". If machines A and C are off when 
>machine B is started, machine B starts normally and doesn't display 
>these dialogue boxes.
>
>I"ve spent some time with them on the 'phone and they assure me that 
>there are no entries in machine B's, System Preferences -> Accounts 
>-> Startup Items. I also got them to remove any favourites from the 
>"connect to server" dialogue box.
>
>Any of ideas as to where residual information might lie?
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>Regards,
>
>Mark (}-:
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>
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Josh Wisenbaker suggested the following that was right on the money:

>Check and see if they added a shared folder to the Finder Sidebar. 
>I've seen this cause some odd things before.

Removing those fixed the problem straight away.
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Regards,

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