I'm wondering if I've made a mistake somewhere in the past of my network settings and haven't caught it until now. This is not a sudden drop-out in service. I can't guarantee I've ever had a client working on this computer.
My main symptom is:
When I attempt to start my client on my computer (macbook pro running 10.8.4 with Eos family offline 2.0.1.0.9.41) I get the "Unable to start MultiConsole networking services" error with an option to start anyway or cancel.
If I choose start anyway, I can't see master consoles in the immediate network status display in the CIA. I haven't checked in the about system network tab but I can at work on Monday.
It happens immediately as soon as I click the Eos Family Client button in the shell. It also happens when I click the element family client button, though I don't need that one anyway. If I let it sit, the error does not clear itself.
My settings in the shell in the network category all seem to be correct.
My IPs are good and I can, ping the RPU and Console IPs from my Network Utility.
With wifi and other networks disabled, I do see the correct static IP I set in the shell network settings and I do see to correct network interface (en0) also. I also tried with a DHCP IP from my RPU running the DHCP Server. Again the IP given and shown in my apple network settings match that shown in the Eos Family shell.
This leads me to believe that it is not a simple IP problem.
My main question is, is there some service I've turned off somewhere that's broken the link or is there something else easy I'm forgetting?
I've tried things like creating a new network location with all services other than ethernet set to inactive and cleared the plist to reset to network defaults.
I don't believe I've ever used the client software on this exact computer but I've done it in the past with others and had no problems.
Thanks for any help!
