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Hi, ever since I installed the latest revision of Zephyroth's 10.5.2 I can no longer seem to connect to my Windows shared drive, the share is shown in Finder like it should be, but when I try and browse it I get "Connection Failed" (see screenshot).

Internet works just fine! I haven't changed anything about my Windows share, and like I said it used to work just fine. I can't figure out what's broken. Could anyone give me any hints eg. things to try out on the command line?

 

Many thanks.

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I have the same problem. I activated file sharing on my Hackintosh and tried to connect with my MBP, also not working. The Console tells me, that the system tries to start AppleFileServer.app, but it crashes every time. I also tried the AMD Patcher, but there is nothing to do. So there could be a problem with any of the sharing frameworks.

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I have this same issue. I did some googling and found a forum that said I needed to update my permissions for ext2fs.kext. Doing some more googling says that this seems to be the linux system so I can't believe that that will resolve it. I don't even have that kext on my system that I can find.

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I have this same issue. I did some googling and found a forum that said I needed to update my permissions for ext2fs.kext.

 

I think that was me asking about ext2fs in another forum. :hysterical: The conversation just shifted to a lack of Windows shares, so like you assume it has nothing to do with ext2 drives of course!

 

Interesting that all three of us have this problem. I'm assuming Zeph missed a bug when he compiled rev. 2.

 

Maksimum: checked my console but couldn't find the corresponding error message, do you get it on startup or right at the moment when you try and connect to the share?

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Maksimum: checked my console but couldn't find the corresponding error message, do you get it on startup or right at the moment when you try and connect to the share?

 

Right at the moment when I try to connect to my share, launchd tries to start AppleFileServer.app, then the App crashes and launchd repeats the startup every 10 seconds. After 10 to 20 attempts the calling client says: unable to connect.

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No matter what URL I enter into that dialog, I get an error saying that the url is an invalid format. it seems to be a known bug with leopard:

 

see here: http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthrea...0501&page=2

 

and here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307256

 

Neither of those solutions worked for me. I tried deleting the ext3.fs, which did not help, then I tried deleting the whole URLMounter directory, which did not help.

 

So I have no way to test your theory, until I fix this problem!

 

I installed from zephs rev 2 disk. I am temped to just wipe it, and reinstall with the rev 1 disk. As with that disk, I could connect to windows shares.

 

~S

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I get the same error message unless I put "smb" before it, I am running Leopard 10.5.2 and have no problem connecting to my windows vista share on another computer. for example, i have a windows vista computer named "john-pc" so the address I put in to connect to the server is "smb://john-pc", then it shows me all the shared folders on the vista pc that I can connect to.

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I was putting smb in front of it. If you look at my first link: The guy had a bad symlink with ext2.fs. Well I found one with afps.fs. Removing it, and rebooting allowed me to try your suggestion... it worked.

 

So the rule is is, if you get he "The text entered does not appear to be a valid URL", make sure to search your /System/Library/Filesystems folder for dangling links.

 

Thanks for the help dakine, once I got over this hurdle your suggestion worked.

 

BTW, is there anyway to have an NFS computer show up in the sidebar? Currently I just mounted it, and then put a link to the folder in the side bar.

 

Thanks,

~S

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I'm not sure, the link idea you came up with seems to be good idea. I'll take a look and see what I find

 

Edit: I did find that you can have a link to your network folder in your dock, just drag the shared folder to the dock.

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Also mentioned in another forum:

 

Got some other fix for the different problems (the one with the File Sharing not working on the Hackintoth and the one with not connecting to another file share):

 

The Rev.2-install has some problems with file paths of a few symbol links.

 

1. open the Terminal

2.

sudo -s

for becoming root

3. look at /System/Library/Filesystems for the symbol link afpfs.fs. It has to point to '/System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext', mine was showing to 'System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext' (notice the missing slash at the beginning)

4. if it's wrong (without the slash):

rm afpfs.fs
ln -s /System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext afpfs.fs

5. for fixing the problem of not being able to share something: look in /usr/sbin for AppleFileServer, also a symlink, which on my computer was also missing the slash at the beginning

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  • 4 weeks later...

Thank you very much Maksimum. You made my day.

 

 

Got some other fix for the different problems (the one with the File Sharing not working on the Hackintoth and the one with not connecting to another file share):

 

The Rev.2-install has some problems with file paths of a few symbol links.

 

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  • 4 months later...

This problem has happened to me. When updating to 10.5.4.

 

None of the solutions mentionned here worked, so...

 

I've put my iATKOS 10.5.2 install DVD in drive and re-installed the filesystem directory with Pacifist.

 

Now i can connect to other computer on the network.

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