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Clients randomly losing access to shared volumes

Hello all:

We've started experiencing a problem with our server, and I'm just wondering if someone here might have some ideas.

The Server is 10.4.8; it's more or less up-to-date, except for the last two security updates, which we'll apply as soon as possible (but I don't think our problem is related).

Our 10.4 clients (they're all either 10.4.7 or 10.4.8) are randomly losing access to one or more volumes shared by the server. They'll be logged in, and when they try to save a file to a network share, either get a message that they're no longer connected or they don't have permission to access the share point. Logout/login or a restart puts everything back to normal, but it's becoming a major irritant.

This is a dedicated file server; the only service running on it is AFP, and all files have permissions inherited from their parent folder.

Andrew Penner

14" G3 iBook (700 MHz, 640MB RAM), Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 29, 2006 10:24 AM

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Feb 22, 2007 11:23 AM in response to Leo Ferraro

Hi Leo:

Since doing the tweak, I've had one report of it happening. I don't know if it's happened more and people aren't telling me (since it's more of an annoyance that anything), or if the one reported case was an example of user-error.

I ask the users periodically whether they've had it happen again, and anecdotal reports are negative. The most I can say at this point is, if the tweaking hasn't eliminated the problem, it has at least greatly reduced its occurance.

Andrew

Clients randomly losing access to shared volumes

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