superflippy's Journal: OS X - Windows Networking Problem Solved!

For a while now, I've been having trouble connecting to the Windows fileserver here at work with my iBook. I thought that some change made to the Windows server was to blame, but it turns out that it's Panther 10.3.3 that's the problem.

When I tried to use the Finder to access servers in my workgroup, I'd click on a server alias, get a login box, and then get the message "The alias 'X' could not be opened because the original item could not be found." Searching on the error message with Google brought me to this page, which explains the problem and gives a solution.

Now I'm back on the intranet and able to use the iBook productively again!

Similar Problem

[bsharitt]

I had a similar problem with my Mac and PC, but since I don't have much useful stuff on my game cons...err...Windows machine, my file sharing foes the other direction so it wasn't a real problem for me.

Hey there

[Zontar The Mindless]

Glad to hear you got your troubles sorted out. I'm running a mixed home network these days: 1 Linux, 2 Win2K boxes, one running Solaris, and a token Mac/OS 9.2 for which eventually I might get some more memory so I can upgrade the operating system. So I feel some of your pain. ;)

Stop by the old stomping ground and say Hello sometime when you get the chance. Currently that's located at www.hiveminds.org.