I suck at networking
Not just in the "sucking up to people hoping to reap the rewards later" sense of the word, but especially the computer-related sense. I tried to make the G3 clamshell talk to my MacBook, or vice versa. Should be a piece of cake, with File Sharing and all that. It isn't. Reason unknown. They see each other in the "Network" tab alright, but when trying to access I get "The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try again." Makes no sense. All settings seem OK. I used to be able to connect without problems from Windows, but that machine is borked. Oh well. I'm going to call it a day now, I already wasted a few days last week trying to set up communication between Windows PC and the 1541-II.
This wouldn't be really worthy of a post, if I had not had this problem for as long as I can remember. Networking & I don't mix.
[Update 2008-03-02] OK, maybe I don't suck *that* much after all. I knocked the Wii from my network, and suddenly things started working. Apparently there have been cases where the Wii interfered, although the reports are scattered and vague.