Network volume "appears" in random finder folders
Hey,
Recently we've been having an issue where a network volume mount-point appears multiple times within itself, in random folders - i.e. we have a volume called "Work"; I can navigate inside it up to the 4th or 5th level of the folder structure, than randomly I get to a folder where some the files and folders inside don't show up and instead I will see multiple instances of the "Work" volume.
Once they appear they usually persist until a computer restart. Un-mounting the volume sometimes help but not always, and after a restart the problem seems to be solved, until it come back randomly, anywhere from a few hours to a few days later.
This only seems to happen on our iMac machines (connected via ethernet), as the Mac Pro's connected via fiber do not have this issue - However, our users know to connect via AFP and I've seen this happen over AFP, so it's not an SMB issue.
So far I tried:
1. P-RAM reset + Repair permissions - this seems to work (for a random amount of time), but I have no way of telling if that's because of the restart itself or because of the repair permissions.
2. Removing p-lists for the finder, network, xsan and anything else that might be related.
The machines exhibiting this behaviour are all mid 2010-late 2013, on OS X 10.9.4 and 10.9.5.
I really can't thing of anything else to try, so if anyone here has any other suggestions or if any of you have seen this issue before - I'd be happy to hear it.
Thanks!
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)