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I've seen a few instances where Macs tend to "forget" user permissions and for some stange reason they will, on occaision, fail to load the LDAP services required to access Active Directory (multi OS network), but in this case I would be looking in the direction of the harddrive itself, as the problem moves from machine to machine, and is still present even when the drive is not used as a boot device. You might be able to mount the drive in a PeeCee running Linux and copy the contents of the drive, then download the Ultimate Boot CD and run that to check if the drive is totally stuffed.

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neofree wrote:
Mac's Blow chunks.  The One button mouse is the first turn off.  Not to mention not ergonomic.  The UI is "OK" but some things are backwards and configuration is so limited it's sickening.  Why is Mac preferred by graphics people?  I have no idea whatsoever.  An upgraded PC can do anything a Mac can do.  Don't like use Windows? Use Linux.  Mac needs to die.



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Neofree

How on earth does that help Karlos solve the problem he is having?? Why even bother wasting valuable bandwidth with crap like that??? :-? :-? :-?

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@Karlos

Its all good, I just get a little peeved with crap like that, its not the first time I've had a go at someone for that and I'm sure it won't be the last. It would be all fine if this thread was titled "Macs are crap...have at it...", but its not.

Of all the problems to get lumbered with literally days after the network guy left. Sod's law I tell you!

Hmmm, maybe he saw it coming :-D

AU$10 says he saw the exact same message as you and after a few failed reset attempts hightailed it out of there :lol:

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TBH, the machine that is being used as the server isn't up to the job IMHO - its just a basic G4 box and doesn't even have RAID. Asking for trouble there, methinks :-)

You gotta wonder where some peoples brains are to put so much faith into something with absolutly no redundancy, even though RAID wouldn't have helped in this case, you never know when a drive is gonna just up and die on you. People will never learn, I suppose thats good in a way, keeps me employed :-D

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@Karlos

Assuming that, in this case, it is data corruption that has caused the "server" to crap its dacks, then that same corrupt data would have been written to all other drives. Subsequently, you would have a pile of drives with the same corrupt data, no matter what RAID level you are running. Even if the drive had developed bad sectors, more than likely some form of garbled data would have been written to the other drives, hence again you would have pile of useless drives. I was having this exact same conversation with someone else the other day.

Edit...Actually, yes, RAID 1 would be beneficial here, as you would have more drives to play with, without totally loosing everything in the event of a stuff up :-D

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@Karlos

Even still, you need a pretty beefed up RAID card to give at least a degree of protection against bad sectors on a hard drive, look at what happened to AW.net recently, I assume they were using RAID 5 at least.

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Honeslty, it's like a spoiled kid :lol:

Find me an OS that isn't ;-)