Filesharing is getting disabled in mac 0s X 10.4

my new G5 quad system was working fine till today morning , suddenly after the power failure i am not able to access this machine from other macs.when i looked into file sharing it was disabled somehow.i reenabled it but a soon as i access this machine again from nework this is getting disabled.plz help .i am uing latet os.

I have that problem on some Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger machines... I'm certain it's a corrupt file like a ".plist", ".pref", or ".cache", but I haven't had time to get around to sorting it out... OSX is much more of a pain to keep runnung smoothly than OS7 to OS9 ever where.
You might try using Applejack to clear things up.

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