Hi all, I desperately need some help with the following setup:
One ISA server running DNS and a firewall. This one has the DSL connection and shares it via a switch to the rest of the network;
One Exchange server (2000 I think) running as an AD domain controller;
One Xserve G5 with an Xserve RAID running Tiger Server 10.4.6 and only AFP and Windows sharing services are running.
There is then a few Mac Users and PC users as clients. All users have accounts on the AD, some of them have home directories on the Xserve/RAID. It has run like this without issue for some time.
Recently, every friday the clients are losing use of the RAID. Not sure what’s causing this, but until this week simply unbinding and re-binding to the AD has fixed the problem entirely.
This time however, some Mac users are unable to connect to the RAID via AFP. SMB works fine and so none of the Windows clients have a problem. Macs can connect this way too, and some are fine over AFP, but others are not. I simply get a wrong user/password error message.
I created a new user on the OD, and could not connect at all via AFP. Connecting using one of the Xserve’s local accounts is fine so the service is OK. I have repaired permissions, and updated from 10.4.5 to 10.4.6 in an attempt to fix this. I have rebooted several times (Xserve and Exchange) and rebound to the AD once or twice with no change.
So far all I have managed to do is knock out the DNS service and cut off email and web access (Don’t worry about that one, I’ll sort that). Its this weird AFP issue I would really like to get to the bottom of.
Fast help would be seriously appreciated.
Many thanks,
War
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