Hi, as a mac user since 13 years, I've had a lot of very strange tricks to fight with, but this problem it's really amazing...... my problem is: I've 3 Macs (iMac500, iMacG4flat, iBook500) running MacOs9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.2 connectded in a local network trough an ADSL router/switch. They can access Internet and they can share each other by AppleShare but.... 2 Mac of three are extremely slow at startup, probably because they have the option "mount at startup" for their volumes in the appleShare panel in the chooser application, so probably when they boot , they search one for the other and takes 4 or 5 minutes to startup. If I disconnect the macs from the network everything goes OK and they sturtup quickly. I do not use DHCP for the router, the macs have their local IP. The REAL problem is that I cannot UNCHECK the option "mount at startup" in this 2 Macs (only in this 2) because every times that I uncheck the option, it is automatically RECHECKED wen I try to reconnect to one of the 2 macs!!!! I tried to trash all the apple share, chooser, file sharing preferences and reebooted but NOTHING! The very STRANGE THINGS is that this misterious trick do not happen on the 3rd Mac (the ibook), with this I can check and uncheck the option "mount at startup" as many times I want!!!!! I've not yet tried to delete the APPLESHAREPDS hidden file and to zap the PRAM (because I'm far from the office in these days). Suppose that I resolve this problem; How can I avoid the long waiting time at startup if I want the 2 macs to mount their drives throug file sharing????!!! I'm going CRAZY!!!!!! Jack

In order to uncheck the "mount at startup", the share points of the computer you logged into and set for "mount at startup" must be exactly as they were when you selected "mount at startup". You must log in as the same user as well. This can be difficult to recreate, under many circumstances. In order to fix the problem I have trashed the whole Preferences Folder on a computer with this problem and it didn't fix it. I reinstalled several Extensions as well, and the same problem persisted. I've removed the System Files and performed a restore in place with the same problem. To fix this problem, I have had to perform a clean install of the OS. James

Or, instead of REINSTALLING, you could go to System Folder:Servers and delete the disk aliases. This will uncheck the "mount at startup" box, and should make things run more quickly. Kerry

I can't believe I've never come across this. Pre Mac OS 8.6, it was stored in the AppleShare Prep file. With 8.6 and newer it's stored as aliases in the Servers Folder. Well, that'll save me a lot of time in the future. Thanks Kerry! James

Deleting that AppleShare PDS file will fix it too. p

It WORKS! Thanks a lot Kerry. Next time I will try with "p"'s solution! :) Jack