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Panther Classic, Print, and SMB Share Problem
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Evansville, IN
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One of my users has a Dual 1.25 GHz MDD G4 system that is slowly falling apart. About a month ago, he lost the ability to mount one of our SMB network shares.
Last week he lost the ability to print from any program. It connects to the printers and then gives an error of some sort saying the item can't print (the error verbage varies depending on app). The printers were setup via IP Printing, so I trashed those and set them up via AppleTalk which worked for a few days. Now it is not working again.
The final straw today is that Classic won't startup. The Classic loading window shows up and stays at about 2% loaded (based on thet progress control). We have let it run for over 30 minutes and it doesn't move. Tried booting with Extensions turned off, and still the same problem.
I tried logging into a spare account that I have on all the machines for testing purposes, and it suffers from all the same problems, so I know it's not an account specific problem.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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the standard things - permissions repair, disk repair, check the log file for errors...
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cpac
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Originally posted by cpac:
the standard things - permissions repair, disk repair, check the log file for errors...
Did permissions multiple times. Did disk repair (Apple one. Could probably do Diskwarrior). Fixes them for a few days and then they get corrupted again. I've never seen a system's permissions get flubbed up so fast. Any ideas?
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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if the disk is getting corrupted regularly, I'd wager it's because there's not a lot of free space on it - I'd start by trying to make sure there's a gig or so of free space (particularly if RAM is limited).
Just to be clear though, are you getting disk errors as well as permission problems, or just permission problems?
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cpac
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Originally posted by cpac:
if the disk is getting corrupted regularly, I'd wager it's because there's not a lot of free space on it - I'd start by trying to make sure there's a gig or so of free space (particularly if RAM is limited).
main drive has 97.61GB of free space.
secondary drive has 64.13GB of free space
Just to be clear though, are you getting disk errors as well as permission problems, or just permission problems?
Permissions only. Disk is fine.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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ok - well if it's permissions only that's just weird. Might be use of various installers (they tend to screw up permissions), but other than that I don't know what would cause that.
Does repairing permissions fix the problems you've had?
If not, it might be worth doing an archive & install (doesn't take too long, preserves user info/data etc.)
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