Personal File sharing doesn't work

I'm trying to transfer files from my G4 to my G5.
I've been successful until now.
All of a sudden my G4 will not allow me to enable Personal File Sharing.
I click the "Start now" button, and nothing.
I have also been having start-up and sleep problems as well as mouse cursor disappearing after sleep mode. Could they all be related?

I'm using a Network cable on the G4.
Airport card on the G5.
Aftermarket wireless G router.
As I said it worked fine just hours before. Now won't network at all.
I'm using an Apple USB mouse.
G4 will sometimes just freeze after chime and screen will not come up, or comes up very slowly. Mouse will often disappear after waking from sleep mode. Or sometimes it will not wake from sleep. I've removed all peripherals except Apple monitor and mouse.

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Check this article - http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070226213016446
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Hi(I'm new to mac)
I have two computers in my home, one is Windows based desktop computer and the other is macbook air. Both are connected to the same router. Desktop pc is connected via ethernet and macbook air via wifi. As my storage in macbook is just 128Gigs so I used to access my desktop PC's hard disk using network sharing. It all worked fine and was so smooth, I just had to connect to wifi and click on my PC(faran-pc) from the Network and there I go.
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I have a Macbook Air bought late 2009 (I'll call it MBA 1). OS 10.6.0.
I have a new Macbook Air bought a few days ago (I'll call it MBA 2). OS 10.6.4.
I have been attempting to share files from the two computers.
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The problem could be that the two usernames of the MBA 1 and the MBA 2 are very similar.
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But it's too late to change the username of the computers now.
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Apple Support
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Sincerely yours
Message was edited by: prko

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Download the OS 10.4.10 COMBO update for Intel (for ktom) or PPC (for prko).
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This problem has been plaguing me for some months. When I try to access the problem computer on the network it will not show up until I turn off Personal File Sharing and then turn it back on. Then all works fine for several days until it doesn't work, and then I repeat the process (turn PFS off and then back on again) to make it work. I can't make an association with any third party programs that might be contributing to the problem.
I thought that the problem might go away with the purchase of a new iMac (10.4.10) and initialized with Migration Manager. Apparently, I imported the problem.
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At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
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Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
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Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
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I have an iMac G5 with two user accounts A and B ; and a MacBook Pro with two user accounts A' (imported from A with the migration assistant) and C.
Personal file sharing, FTP and SMB are enabled on both machines. The firewall is disabled. Permissions, as well as the Keychain have been repaired.
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This problem drives me crazy because :
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Someone got the problem solved by re-creating his account and re-importing all his data, but I absolutely want to avoid that. I'm sure there can be a simpler solution...
It appeared to me that the only reason why AFP copy doesn't work between A and A' is that A' was imported from A. It seems also that a common broken preference/setting is not the source of the problem, since sharing works from/to any other account (and well, re-creating the account couldn't solve the problem as it would re-set the broken settings).
I would like to know which information is used to determine user privileges when copying from one machine to another...
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If you have two machines with one account imported from one machine to another, can you check whether Personal file sharing with this account works? I love understanding why stuff doesn't work.
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Here are the results of a few more experiments... Something is definitely broken with those two user accounts, but I'd like to know why, and how it got broken
I have replaced the names of the accounts/machines by more meaningful identifiers.
From the MBP, trying to access Account_B on the iMac:
MBP:~ account_A'$ mkdir test
MBP:~ account_A'$ mount -t afp afp://accountB:*****@iMac/accountB test
mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020
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drwx------ 29 account_A' account_A' 942 Nov 8 22:28 Desktop
drwx------ 14 account_A' account_A' 432 Sep 24 23:47 Documents
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MBP:~ account_A'$ mkdir test
MBP:~ account_A'$ mount -t afp afp://accountA:*****@iMac/accountA test
mount_afp: the mount flags are 0000 the altflags are 0020
MBP:~ account_A'$ ls -l test
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 23 501 501 738 Aug 26 00:03 Code
drwx------ 13 501 501 398 Nov 8 13:10 Desktop
(I can't copy to test here)
501 is the uid of account_A (on the iMac). (The uid of account_A' is 503).
Same stuff through SMB:
MBP:~ account_A'$ mkdir test
MBP:~ account_A'$ mount -t smbfs //accountA@iMac/accountA test
Password:
MBP:~ account_A'$ ls -l test
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 account_A' account_A' 16384 Aug 26 01:03 Code
drwxr-xr-x 1 account_A' account_A' 16384 Nov 8 13:10 Desktop
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Contacting xx.xx.xx.xx
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Hello, sorry my poor english.
I have enabled 'Personal File Sharing' and I have a small index.html file on my 'Sites' folder.
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(13)Permission denied: access to /~MyUserName/ failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path
I have already run 'Disk Utility' and repaired all permissions but still no go.
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Personal File Sharing Won't Start

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Also, have not been able to use my computer as an FTP server (System Preferences: Sharing: FTP Access On) such that the second computer can connect via Cyberduck (FTP client software).
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107369
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106661
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What is a NAT router? Your suggestion to use a file
storage service as an alternative sounds like it
might be a good idea for me. It's just that the Apple
Support articles made file sharing sound so simple
(i.e. "This allows Macintosh computers in remote
locations to share files with any type of Internet
connection").
This is like saying the Interstate highway system makes it easy to drive from one city to another. It's true, but you need to know something about driving first. Similarly, you need to know something about Internet traffic.
To continue with the highway analogy, let's say your data is like a car. Actually, it's a packet with addressing information inside. The key addresses are source and destination IP addresses. When inside your town, or LAN, it's got local addresses. Maybe your computer is 10.1.1.2 and your printer is 10.1.1.3 and a car destined from your computer to your printer has a source of 10.1.1.2 and a destination of 10.1.1.3. This is like saying take a left at Main Street.
But there are maybe millions of Main Streets. Where this all changes is where we go out to the Interstate, or global Internet. Your router is your gateway to this traffic. It has two interfaces, one side talks to your locality and it has a number like 10.1.1.1, and another side which talks to the global Internet and might have a number like 71.126.45.113. As your car goes through this router, it's source number changes to become that of the router (71.126.45.113). This is so it can find its way back, and others can follow. The local address has no meaning out here. When it (or rather another car) returns, the router swaps the addresses back and sends it to the local network. This process is called NAT (Network Address Translation).
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