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Weird PC networking error

Oki

Oki

macrumors member
Original poster
Mar 18, 2004
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San Marcos, TX
Hi,

When I try to connect to my PC via my Powerbook, sometimes I get the error

-------------------------------------------------------------------
The operation cannot be complete because one or more required items
cannot be found.

(error code -43)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
What does this mean?
 
Eh?

From Finder I press CMD+K and it brings up the Connect to Server dialogue box. I then follow the directions that edesign gave in the superpost about networking to OS X and back from a PC.
 
Oki said:
Hi,

When I try to connect to my PC via my Powerbook, sometimes I get the error

-------------------------------------------------------------------
The operation cannot be complete because one or more required items
cannot be found.

(error code -43)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
What does this mean?
Click to expand...

I sometimes get a different, yet equally baffling error message when I do the same thing:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
The operation cannot be completed because one or more items could not be read or written.

(error code -36)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

What is Mac OS X trying to tell me?
 
slooksterPSV said:
It maybe a faulty connection. Go to your finder, click Go then click connect to... and type in the IP Address of a Windows PC. If that works then check your cabling. You may have a knot, a kink, or maybe a faulty wire. Here's one answer:
Error 36 - http://www.cit.cornell.edu/helpdesk/mac/email/mail36.html
The other one I dunno. Like I said check connections.
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Might want to put something before the IP address to specify the protocol, like:

smb://<IP of Windows PC>

Also, a knot or kink won't cause some protocols not to work. It will destroy your connection altogether.

It sounds like your Mac is having trouble resolving your PC's hostname. If the IP works, then this is the case.
 
tomf87 said:
Might want to put something before the IP address to specify the protocol, like:

smb://<IP of Windows PC>

Also, a knot or kink won't cause some protocols not to work. It will destroy your connection altogether.

It sounds like your Mac is having trouble resolving your PC's hostname. If the IP works, then this is the case.
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Yup - that's the problem. The IP works perfectly, but the hostname doesn't.
 
Hrm

I get the same problem randomly w/o any obvious reason. I started out using the IP rather than the host name and I still get the problem. What else could it be if this isn't the answer?
 
I found it works with smb://<IP address> but doesn't work and i get the -43 error code message when I put the full share name smb://<IP address>/share
 
Ok I take it you've tried nfs://username:password@IPADDRESS/share
Did you try:
smb://username:password@IPADDRESS/share

If that doesn't work (because IP Address refresh every day or so) try this:

smb://username:password@computer name/share
or
nfs://username:password@computer name/share
 
slooksterPSV said:
Ok I take it you've tried nfs://username:password@IPADDRESS/share
Did you try:
smb://username:password@IPADDRESS/share

If that doesn't work (because IP Address refresh every day or so) try this:

smb://username:password@computer name/share
or
nfs://username:password@computer name/share
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Why would NFS work? Windows doesn't support NFS as far as I'm aware - only SMB. Thanks for the tip though.
 
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