"Connection failed" error when booting Leopard

Check System Preferences - Accounts - Login items

look for an item that has the same icon, e.g. see the picture below

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Tuck

I'm having the exact same error, but there is nothing in my login items that should be causing that. Any other ideas?

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I'm having this problem whenever I try to access the help viewer within software. I've checked the login items and there's nothing there. Any other suggestions?

I get the same problem! I also running Snow Leopard and it seems to have gotten worse with the upgrade! EVERYTHING runs slower because it keeps trying to find this server. This has got to be a bug.

djeans said:

I'm having the exact same error, but there is nothing in my login items that should be causing that. Any other ideas?

Thanks

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Find that server

brbell01 said:

I get the same problem! I also running Snow Leopard and it seems to have gotten worse with the upgrade! EVERYTHING runs slower because it keeps trying to find this server. This has got to be a bug.

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I'm getting this after buying a new machine and migrating my account to it. Now it's looking for my old machine - it's not a startup item, or a recent server (though I did connect to it a few times before wiping it). I get the popup 3 times when booting up - then it doesn't seem to affect anything. I'm stumped as to what might be trying to connect.

i had this pop up all the time on leopard, try go to network preferences, and fiddling around with it, like maybe change the top bar to automatic, or advanced and remove networks that auto-connect, i think i did something in there to stop it, like read the message and try to figure it out, its like a riddle or a puzzle, you'll get it soon.

Problems

Ive got 11 iMac 24's, i am running a back up hard drive through one of the macs which is acting as the server. I get the error message keep poping up when i try and access the alias backup hard drive.
I try and click connect as but it will not allow me to re enter details or anything.
i haven't changed the ip address's of the macs and its weird that like 9 work and then 2 dont. when they have all been set up the same, same operating system (snow leopard).

I have tried to delete, move to the desktop and rename the com.apple.____ whatever files - that didnt work

I have nothing in the login items.

Any ideas
Thanks
Sam!

SamClark01 said:

Ive got 11 iMac 24's, i am running a back up hard drive through one of the macs which is acting as the server. I get the error message keep poping up when i try and access the alias backup hard drive.
I try and click connect as but it will not allow me to re enter details or anything.
i haven't changed the ip address's of the macs and its weird that like 9 work and then 2 dont. when they have all been set up the same, same operating system (snow leopard).

I have tried to delete, move to the desktop and rename the com.apple.____ whatever files - that didnt work

I have nothing in the login items.

Any ideas
Thanks
Sam!

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I would take care to make sure you are deleting the specific plist files you need to and not just dumping them in bulk. Here is the plist you need to delete to clear out the login items (helpful when they don't delete correctly from the Account preferences).
home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist