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afp connection status error messageI need some help. FOr some reason when I try to connect to one of my other macs over my wireless network, i can't. I get an error message that says "AFP Connection status" and i get a spinning beach ball and then after about 3 minutes it says connection to the server or something like that failed. I've been connecting via network with these two macs for a while, never had a problem. this reminds of when i used to use windows  |
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 Jameson
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Jameson
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2006-Jun-13 9:02 pm
Open Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal and type:
lookupd -flushcache (press Return)
Reboot both macs than try again. |
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 jwsmiths4Part Man, Part Mac
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Made sure that Personal File Sharing is still enabled on the remote system? Any network changes recently? Can you take a screen shot of the error messages? |
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rugbyI think I know it all.
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Were you ever connecting via wireless? Some wireless routers don't pass appletalk wireless->wired. |
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said by rugby:Were you ever connecting via wireless? Some wireless routers don't pass appletalk wireless->wired. yes, that is how all of my computers are networked, wirelessly. i haven't changed anything in terms of networking. i will give that terminal thing a shot. |
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Jameson
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Most routers do, because its not an actual service that the router has to have. The only reason i can think that apple talk would not work is if the routers FW is blocking the ports it uses. |
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Daemon
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AFP is not appletalk. Appletalk is analogous to TCP/IP or IPX and is a protocol.
AFP is like SMB and works over appletalk or TCP/IP. If you are using all OS X macs, you are almost certainly using AFP over TCP/IP. The service discovery protocol isn't even appletalk anymore. |
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Jameson
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Exactly, a router cannot be the cause. |
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rugbyI think I know it all.
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said by Jameson:Most routers do, because its not an actual service that the router has to have. The only reason i can think that apple talk would not work is if the routers FW is blocking the ports it uses. Sorry, I've seen Linksys wireless routers not pass appletalk from a wireless laptop to a wired appletalk printer before. It's not a "my cousin's wife's nephew" saw it either, I actually had to troubleshoot it a few years back. |
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said by Daemon:AFP is not appletalk. Appletalk is analogous to TCP/IP or IPX and is a protocol. AFP is like SMB and works over appletalk or TCP/IP. If you are using all OS X macs, you are almost certainly using AFP over TCP/IP. The service discovery protocol isn't even appletalk anymore. I know it's not Appletalk for discovery anymore, it's bonjour. Which coincidentally is blocked on some linksys wired and wireless routers. There's a bug in the web-based gui of some linksys routers that if multi-cast filtering is disabled, no mDNS services can be discovered. You have to actually ENABLE the filter to find bonjour/rendezvous/zeroconf devices. |
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 SebehkUSN Retired, 1993-2013, yvan eht nioj
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I have 2 iBooks on wireless, and one PM G4 wired to a Linksys WRT54G. I've had that happened to me a few time on my network.
Rebooting all 3 always remedied the problem.
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well, still can't get this to work. this is the error message i get. any ideas. i've tried the terminal thing and i've restarted the computers. |
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rugbyI think I know it all.
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It's using the .local name, did you change the name in the sharing preferencepane lately? Try connecting by typing afp://IPaddress in the Go->Connect to Server dialog box. |
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Daemon
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said by rugby:Sorry, I've seen Linksys wireless routers not pass appletalk from a wireless laptop to a wired appletalk printer before. It's not a "my cousin's wife's nephew" saw it either, I actually had to troubleshoot it a few years back. That might make sense if the wired and wireless interfaces are seperate inside the router firmware. If linksys had to write extra code for TCP/IP messages/packets to pass properly between the two interfaces, they'd probably have to do the same for Appletalk, which I bet they didn't. Of course, I don't know how the things are designed, so I could be talking from somewhere besides my mouth. |
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well, i tried connecting by using afp://IPADDRESS. no go. still won't connect. i get that afp connection error message still. i really don't know what happened. do you think i'll have to contact apple for tech support? would they even help, considering its a network issue?
i tried pinging the other macs ip address and vice versa and it does ping okay. |
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rugbyI think I know it all.
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Can any computer connect via AFP to any other machine? Can you test this to narrow down the problem? Thanks. |
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 lunarPlexusNothin' Up Muh Sleeve
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Recently we started having problems connecting via afp to one particular server at work that hadn't exhibited any problems previously. I think there is some underlying network problem going on, but in lieu of an actual solution, I found that using: afp://[user]:[password]@[IP]/[volume] gets right in every time. Maybe worth a shot? |
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 phatlazybumWhat in the world?
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I've gotten the same message before, about looking up host....
What i did to fix it, and this may sound strange, ping the computer first, then use afp://ipaddress
That usually works for me, not sure why, but it does. You can give that a shot and see if it works for you. I too, connect wirelessly. |
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well, i have three macs. one mac mini hard wired to my router and one imac wireless and the mac book pro. none of them can connect to each other. i get the same problem on all of them. |
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rugbyI think I know it all.
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rugby
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2006-Jun-18 7:32 pm
Swap the router out. |
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when you say swap it out, do you mean replace it with a different one? i don't have a spare to replace it with right now. if its any help i've been using the apple airport extreme with my two expresses. |
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 Bubba_TFast Faisil Strikes Again
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I have a similar situation with my wireless network at home. I have an Airport Extreme BS, one G5 and one G4. The G5 has an extreme card, while the G4 has the regular airport card. Many times I can connect to the G4 from my G5, by using AFP through the finder (Apple-k). However, it never works going the other way, from the G4 to the G5. But I did find that if I open up the hard drive icon on the G4, click on "Network", then "Servers" I've been able to see the G5 and connect to it without a problem. It's strange, but I think my problem has something to with the G4 running a standard airport card. |
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rugbyI think I know it all.
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said by obeythelaw:when you say swap it out, do you mean replace it with a different one? i don't have a spare to replace it with right now. if its any help i've been using the apple airport extreme with my two expresses. Yeah, I always recommend swapping out a piece of hardware in this situation as that's USUALLY the culprit. You might try resetting the wireless and reconfiguring it with the latest firmware. |
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