This has been happening for a while and not just on one computer.
I have 4 Macs on a network and they will usually show up in the Network "folder", but a lot of times when I try to connect to it, the Finder will say "Connection failed. The computer may not exist or may not be operational at this time. Check the IP address and try again."
If I go to Connect to Server and put afp://IP address directly it connects fine. So it's the Finder not remembering how to connect or it's loosing the IP address for some reason.
Rebooting usually doesn't help anything.
Does anyone else have this problem? It's really quite annoying and I don't understand how it can be that hard to get the Networking working.
This has happened sinse 10.4.1 I think and now I'm on 10.4.3 and it still does it.
All computers are connected to the same switch.
It's interesting that I can always connect to my brother's G3, but I have problems connecting to my Dad's G5 a lot.
Sometimes this problem will just go away as well without me doing anything.
I have 4 Macs on a network and they will usually show up in the Network "folder", but a lot of times when I try to connect to it, the Finder will say "Connection failed. The computer may not exist or may not be operational at this time. Check the IP address and try again."
If I go to Connect to Server and put afp://IP address directly it connects fine. So it's the Finder not remembering how to connect or it's loosing the IP address for some reason.
Rebooting usually doesn't help anything.
Does anyone else have this problem? It's really quite annoying and I don't understand how it can be that hard to get the Networking working.
This has happened sinse 10.4.1 I think and now I'm on 10.4.3 and it still does it.
All computers are connected to the same switch.
It's interesting that I can always connect to my brother's G3, but I have problems connecting to my Dad's G5 a lot.
Sometimes this problem will just go away as well without me doing anything.