Problem with terminal

[alon121212]

Hi everyone,

While i was trying to figure out how to get my external HD to work, I ran

through a guide that i thought was related to my problem...

Problem is when i realized it wasn't what i needed it was too late. I did this:

"1) Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and do:

sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1

Now restart your computer".

Now my computer won't connect to the sabnzbd server...

Could anyone please tell me how i can reverse this?

Thanks alot!

 

[psxguru]

Easiest way is to open finder, browse to /Library/Preferences

then doubleclick on com.apple.AppleShareClient.plist

this should open with the property list editor.

find the afp_host_prefs_version key and change the value from 1.
It's set to 10 on my mac, not sure if this is the default but no harm in trying!

 

[tag]

I'm guessing you have Lion?

Can I assume that you tried what you did based on this Apple Lion Server article or some blogs/forums variation of it?

From reading the article I linked to it seems you didn't fully finished the process (assuming this is what you were trying to do).

What I do know for sure is the commands you entered, once you restarted your computer, left a process running that was waiting for you to modify/create a User Authentication Method to be saved in your Preferences.

It does say at the end how to re-disable whatever you had enabled, but I'm not sure what you would re-disable since you didn't really enable anything since you didn't complete the commands.

Again, this is a good bit of speculation on my part and I can't really test this as I'm on Snow Leopard myself, but I would close up your Preferences again via the last step and see if that corrects it...

sudo chmod o-w /Library/Preferences

Then restart and see if that fixes it.

 

[alon121212]

well i actually took it from this article:

http://www.alexanderwilde.com/2011/04/os-x-lion-connection-error-with-afp-and-workaround/

i disabled DHCAST128 as it says, restarted my mac and still nothing...

any more ideas?

Thanks

 

[alon121212]

well eventually i tried repairing the hard disk using disk utility and it worked...

So thanks a lot for your help but this thread can now be closed...