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<blockquote data-quote="kmatthews" data-source="post: 18564">Hello MAK,I'm on a Win2000 network, but use a G4-500MHz tower as a workstation. I too, get the popups requesting username/pswd to connect to the various servers we have here. I can't answer all your questions, but some suggsetions may help you out.Have you tried trashing your TCP/IP preferences? Make sure to take a screenshot of them first to use as a reference. Then trash and set up your TCP/IP preferences from scratch.Another thing I did which reduced my startup from 20 min. to 2 min. was deleting some items in my APPLE menu. If you go to the APPLE menu and scroll down until you get to RECENT SERVERS, you may have a RIGHT-POINTING ARROW. Don't move your mouse over to the right, just remain directly over the entry RECENT SERVERS and let go of your mouse button. A new window should appear on your desktop with aliases inside. Select all of the aliases and drag them to the trash.Repeat this process also for the following entries in your APPLE menu: RECENT APPLICATIONS, RECENT DOCUMENTS.See if that helps any. Just doing that and trashing my TCP/IP peferences helped reduce my overall startup time. But honestly, 2 min. for startup isn't all that bad by the time you log into all your servers.Good luck MAK!KEN</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kmatthews, post: 18564"] Hello MAK, I'm on a Win2000 network, but use a G4-500MHz tower as a workstation. I too, get the popups requesting username/pswd to connect to the various servers we have here. I can't answer all your questions, but some suggsetions may help you out. Have you tried trashing your TCP/IP preferences? Make sure to take a screenshot of them first to use as a reference. Then trash and set up your TCP/IP preferences from scratch. Another thing I did which reduced my startup from 20 min. to 2 min. was deleting some items in my APPLE menu. If you go to the APPLE menu and scroll down until you get to RECENT SERVERS, you may have a RIGHT-POINTING ARROW. Don't move your mouse over to the right, just remain directly over the entry RECENT SERVERS and let go of your mouse button. A new window should appear on your desktop with aliases inside. Select all of the aliases and drag them to the trash. Repeat this process also for the following entries in your APPLE menu: RECENT APPLICATIONS, RECENT DOCUMENTS. See if that helps any. Just doing that and trashing my TCP/IP peferences helped reduce my overall startup time. But honestly, 2 min. for startup isn't all that bad by the time you log into all your servers. Good luck MAK! KEN [/QUOTE]

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