error 35 when connecting to server

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error 35 when connecting to server

Within the last few days I have encountered several computers running 10.4.2 which cannot connect to our Mac OS X Server, the error msg displayed "operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found -- error 35". I have no idea what these required items are and we have not changed our configuration recently. The error msg is occurring on non-priviliged accounts, if I login on the same computers with an admin account and attempt to connect to our server it will work. I tried to delete the GlobalPreferences.plist and perform a repair permissions on a problem computer yesterday and the problem went away but today its back and the same procedure didn't work. We are having multiple computers displaying this error. Appreciate any assistance as we need this problem solved ASAP. TIA

Posted on Oct 18, 2005 6:56 PM

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aau Author

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Oct 18, 2005 7:53 PM in response to aau

OK, after doing a search it appears I also need to delete .GlobalPreferences in the main Library folder. I'm going to see if that works. I think the permissions may be broken as well.

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aau Author

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Oct 19, 2005 11:23 AM in response to aau

Deleting the Globalprefs did not work. I noticed the permissions on the preferences folder did not make sense, instead of being owned by the user, its owned by admin. I don't knwo how that happened. What shoud the correct be the correct set of permissions for a users Prefs folder?

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aau Author

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Oct 19, 2005 2:01 PM in response to aau

If I create a brand new user that user can connect to the server successfully, so something in the old user's account is causing this problem. I don't want to have to create a brand new user and migrate all the settings over for dozens of computers, and we cant afford that can't kind of disruption anyway, if anyone has any ideas of something else to try please let me know.

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jdelong

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Dec 2, 2005 10:04 AM in response to aau

This worked like a charm. Thank you.

Trash the "GlobalPreferences.plist" in:

/<username>/Library/Preferences
and
/Library/Preferences

Log out and log back in.

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