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connecting to server

Jul 14, 2005 11:09PM PDT

I have a G4 iBook with 768 meg of ram running Tiger OS X (10.4.2) as part of a mixed Mac PC network. Mac mini with OS X Tiger (10.4.2) with 256 meg of ram which is the web server for my web site and blog. An ancient IBM Aptiva with a 500 MHz Athlon chip and 768 meg of ram. All work well together. Recently, within the last week, I get a pop-up after logging in to the iBook which attempts to connect to the server (that is the mini which is serving my web site). The option is to login as a registered user or a guest. This is the same process I would normally use to connect to any other computer on the network but this happens automatically each time I logon to the iBook. I think it has something to do with an nfs connection but I don't recall ever doing anything to set this up. I have the option to cancel the process which leaves everthing as I normally expect them to be. I recently updated to Tiger but this 'activity' did not happen until I had been using Tiger for at least a week. Any suggestions?

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Jul 15, 2005 10:02AM PDT

Rather than just ignore your post, I figured that at least some sort of reply would let you know that someone did actually read it. I have not seen this problem before. I assume there is nothing in the startup items that would initiate this connection attempt?
Please let us know if you found an answer elsewhere.

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Jul 16, 2005 2:04AM PDT

No, I haven't come upon an explanation/solution to the problem I described. Nothing in StartupItems even when I sudo to root. I did discover a folder in the '/' directory which I had not noticed before but I can't say I trust my wetware to be sure about the accuracy of that. The folder is: "File Transfer Folder??" Any attempts to identify it with 'file' or even a simple 'ls' fails with a message that either it can't open it or it doesn't exist. I am tending to believe that I have inadvertently changed something in the way nfs works when I connected to my mini and may have clicked on a program rather than only initiated a file copy or transfer, etc. I guess trying to run a program on a remote server could cause some problems. This is done on Unix systems all the time so I don't know if this is relevant or not. All else functions fine and clicking on cancel after logon is at most annoying.