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Server not visible

I have a mac mini running mountain lion server.


There is 10-15 macs on the networks, only some can view the server through finder, Everyone can connect via the ip address under connect to server in finder.


Does anyone know why this might be happening?


Thanks

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), Server

Posted on Nov 16, 2012 5:48 AM

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Nov 19, 2012 12:14 PM in response to antonrodriguez

Hi


Assuming I've understood your question, what you're seeing in the Finder's sidebar are network devices 'broadcasting' themselves using Bonjour and/or NetBIOS. As you know Bonjour does not traverse subnets easily. If the Server is in a different subnet to some of your clients odds are they won't 'see' the server.


For example let's pretend your server's IP address is 172.16.16.254. If some of your client workstations have IP addresses in the 172.16.17.x range they won't 'see' the server via the Finder.


HTH?


Tony

Nov 21, 2012 4:03 AM in response to antonrodriguez

Hi


Clients unexpectedly losing connectivity is not something that should be happening.


I'm currently looking at a number of 10.7 and 10.8 Servers. I also have a 10.6 Server which is behaving as expected and has been for the last 4 years.


FWIW none of the OS X Servers (ASIP 7.6, 10.0, 10.1, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8) I've installed, managed, repaired or serviced over the years have ever displayed the behaviour you describe. Obviously not unless there's been a deeper problem elsewhere. Problems have ranged from simple misconfiguration, permissions, mis-behaving or incompatible 3rd-Party applications or hardware issues/failures.


The other possibilities are the client OS itself has a problem or there's an obscure issue with the network.


HTH?


Tony

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