Hi, I have my two Macs (one is G4 running OS9, the other a PowerTowerPro 225 running 8.1) networked through an Ethernet connection. Everything has been fine until, after a couple of months of not using the network, we cannot get either machine to accept the passwords and cannot connect. I am 99% sure I am using the correct password. How can I change the password if I cannot get it to accept the original one? I'm assuming that if I did a clean install of system software on each I could set the whole thing up again, but I don't want to have to do this. Can anyone help me out with this? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Jean

I don't want to burst your bubble but from what you've said its probably a bad password. One option i would try is to remove the preference files...if you know which ones. You can move them all and slowly move all the ones you know aren't related and place them in again. This should work...let me know what happens

Just a shot in the dark here, but, do these systems care about "case"? Some systems are case sensitive meaning upper case characters are not the same as lower case.