Hi James, You are using OS X 10.4.11, I remember this happening in Tiger.
First Solution: Go to Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the following (suggest make copies to the desktop first if in doubt): com.apple.airport.preferences.plist NetworkInterfaces.plist preferences.plist com.apple.nat.plist All these files will regenerate as necessary when the associated system features are accessed. If you're using Airport or Internet Sharing you'll have to reestablish the appropriate settings, because these will have been lost when the preferences files are removed. Small price to pay, however for a permanent, and very simple solution to this irritating problem. Second Solution I Found: 1. Open "System Preferences" and go to "Security". 2. Tick off "Require password to unlock each secure system preference". Now click "show all" at the top. You will probably have to quit "System Preferences" to make the change take effect. 3. Open "System Preferences" again and choose "Network". (You will probably get the annoying pop up once, but this time when you click "OK" it shouldn't loop). 4. Notice that the padlock in the bottom left corner is now locked. Click it to unlock, and enter your password (assuming you are the administrator). 5. Now click back on the show all button. The Mac will think you made a change and ask if you want to " Apply configuration changes" click "Apply". Once it saves the changes your problem should be fixed. You can go back to the "Security" pane and untick the option you enabled earlier. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 23/07/2010, at 12:42 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: > i encountered a weird problem > when i go to system pref / network it opens the window but comes up with the > message "the settings have been change by another application", i cannot get > rid of that message thus i cannot change/add a connection, the existing > connections work > powerbook g4 osx.4.11 2gig ram 320gig hd > > cheers James > > > SAD Technic > Video Productions, Electronic repairs > U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl > Bayswater WA 6053 > +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 > http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas > skype: barleeway > over 40 years in electronics > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
