Security Update 2005-003 Released

[tech4all]

Doctor Q was the one the recommended this procedure. So I have been afraid not to since. Just figure it is a very easy thing to accomplish.

Interesting. Could you just unmount the drive, unplug it, then turn the drive off? Is that the normal procedure?

 

[wdlove]

Interesting. Could you just unmount the drive, unplug it, then turn the drive off? Is that the normal procedure?

I just put the desktop icon in the trash. Then I turned off the electric to my external hard drive. I didn't go to the point of unplugging it from an outlet.

 

[MacBandit]

Doctor Q was the one the recommended this procedure. So I have been afraid not to since. Just figure it is a very easy thing to accomplish.

Actually if you read the install docs with the system updates it says to unplug all external drives and usb devices from the computer (except your keyboard obviously).

 

[MacBandit]

how do I check that and/or change them? The thing is that I have connected to this share several times in the past. The last thing that I remember happening was that I was connected and put my computer to sleep or unplugged it or something so the connection was terminated without me disconnecting from the share. That might have something to do with it. the only other thing I can think of that might have changed is the security update that had a samba update. i can't remember for sure if I had installed this before or after the last time I was connected to the share.
here's the other thing that happened immediately before my current problem:
I normally am connected via ethernet in my dorm to the campus network. I just recently installed a wireless card in my PB and have been successfully using the wireless access points around campus. So i tried to access this samba share while working wirelessly and I got the message that my username or password was incorrect. But it never prompted me for those things. It used to prompt me every time (when it was working). So I tried logging out and logging back in again (from my user account on the computer, not the network) and thats when I started getting the message that "some data cannot be read or written".

I don't think the wireless thing would make any difference, but that's how it happened. If anyone has ideas to try I would be very grateful.

thanks

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edit: is there a better forum to post this in?

There are quite a few faqs out there on how to do all the regular repairs but the simplest thing is to get a program like Yasu that will do all the maintenance tasks with one click.

 

[sahnert]

There are quite a few faqs out there on how to do all the regular repairs but the simplest thing is to get a program like Yasu that will do all the maintenance tasks with one click.

thanks for the link.
I have been doing regular system maintenance things like permissions and cron jobs etc. The original poster mentioned priveleges and i assumed that has something specific to do with networking.

I'm starting to think that maybe this didn't start with the security update so maybe I will post my problem in another forum.
I would still like to try to "revert" to the way the system was before this update, just to check. Does anyone know a way to do that (besides reinstalling from the OS X disc)?
Thanks

Seth

 

[MacBandit]

thanks for the link.
I have been doing regular system maintenance things like permissions and cron jobs etc. The original poster mentioned priveleges and i assumed that has something specific to do with networking.

I'm starting to think that maybe this didn't start with the security update so maybe I will post my problem in another forum.
I would still like to try to "revert" to the way the system was before this update, just to check. Does anyone know a way to do that (besides reinstalling from the OS X disc)?
Thanks

Seth

Yes, a new thread would be best. File Privileges and Permissions are the same thing. Though there is a place to set network privileges but I'm not going to say where because you can cause major bad stuff if you don't know what you are doing and I'm not the person to tell you what to do.