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I have been connecting my Macbook to my iMac successfully via server connection for years.
After installing SL on my Macbook I cannot connect to my iMac (still has 10.5.8 on it) anymore. I can see my iMac in the sidebar in Finder but, but somehow it does not establish a connection anymore (error: connection failed)
Interestingly, from my iMac I have no problems to connect to my Macbook at all.
I have done the usual:
Restart, Permissions repair, HD only half full, log out / in from file sharing, checked shared folder user permission).
Anyone has a solution to this problem?
RH

Rodney, I figured it out. A few weeks ago my wife had some keychain issues I was not able to resolve right away. To keep her happy (until I have time to change the settings) I changed the Firewall from "set access to specific services .." to "allow only essential services". I just recalled this, and switching back to the former firewall setting which did solve this server problem.
Thanks again for your voodoo (it got me thinking again about the keychain issue and what I did at that time).
All the best
RH

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