thanks for all the help. I got it to work.

so i reinstalled the os and amahi, then I ran the troubleshooter again and it says that it cant find a problem. However i still can not connect to the server from my mac. Im not sure if im just doing it wrong or what. Any ideas?

how can i fix the problem?

no i dont think so... should it?

I had an old gateway laptop that wasnt getting any use so i decided to turn it into a home server. I have never done this before and I am having trouble connecting to it from my macbook. I ran the online troubleshooter to try and resolve the problem and it told me to post this: Using the Network Tro...