Lost connection to one of our network drives broken alias

I'am are currently having an issue with our Mac's in that I all of a sudden can't access one of the servers on our mac's. We can access others servers which are PC based but we have had a working connection for 2 years so it doesn't seem like a permissions issue but when I click on the server icon we get an message that reads "the alias cannot be opened, because the original item cannot be found" We can't fix the alias as we can't connect to the drive even though ping tests say it's there. When we try to connect via desktop/go/connect to server dropdown menu it still won't allow us to connect. We are running the 10.4.11 system would upgrading to the latest os help?

I have the white macbook. The first time I tried to update the Airport to 2007-0002 it failed, would not connect to wireless in WEB, WPA or even open. Had to do a complete restore.
Last weekend I tried again. I first made sure my router, a NetGear WGT634U had the latest firmware (I was missing latest), then I preformed a 'repair disk permissions' and created a full backup of my harddrive so I could boot and restore. Then (with fingers crossed) updated first to 10.4.9. After restart, no problems. I played around for 24 hours to make sure.
Then I repeated the process again (repair, clone, etc) and installed the Airport 2007-0002. After restart, no problems, I am able to connect to internet via wireless first time every time (again fingers are always crossed). I am using WEB security as it seems to be better with other items on my network (Tivo and HP All in one Printer). All I can say is start with a stable setup, do everything step by step and don't try to do more than one update at a time, that might be causing some people problems. Oh, and if possible, make a clean clone backup in case the update fails, easier than reloading from scratch.
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9) C2D, 2G, 120G Drive

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We want to upgrade our system to hold 3.5TB using an XRaid. The XRaid should hold all home directories and some share points.
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Ziv,
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It sounds like you might be expecting the Xserve RAID to do more than it does - it is simply a mass storage device and needs some kind of intelligent interface for other computers to "talk to" for sharing. The exception to this would be to slice the RAID into discrete shares and hook everyone to the switch and have them see only their share. For more than a couple computers (usually servers) this is awkward and prohibitively expensive and should probably be re-thought.
If you think of the Xserve RAID as buying a 3.5TB external drive with a fancy interface you'll be on the right track. Just like an external firewire drive you need to hook it up to computer and share it out for people to see it. Let me know if this is still unclear.
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MacBook Pro can't connect to Time Capsule or network drives

I have a MacBook Pro (2.2 GHz, Intel i7, 4 GB RAM) and for some reason it can not connect to either the Time Capsule or any network drives. We were recently out of town on vacation and before the vacation, everything worked fine. Now, that we are back, the MacBook will connect to the wireless network and can access the internet, etc but it can not access either the Time Capsule or any drives I have setup as shared that's connected to the iMac. I go to the Network and it doesn't show anything as available to connect to.
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Lost connection to one of my Airport express units. Serial number 44500WQV0. Message in Airport Utility is to use Version 5.6 to configure base station. I have version 6.3.1. Both airport express units bought at same time few years ago.

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I am having difficulty connecting apple tv to our network via ethernet cable.

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System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model MS-6741
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 12 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2400 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. Version 07.00T, 4/2/2001
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
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