About two months ago we experienced a problem where users connecting to a file server via afp would hang at authentication. Eventually after 15 minutes or more the user would be logged in. No high memory or cpu usage seen, SMB was not affected. After rebooting the server, everything seemed fine for a little while, but the problem would start up shortly there after. After some discussion with Apple support, we found deleting the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist and rebooting fixed it.
Now today we are experiencing similar issues, I have also noticed that users trying to connect show up as Disabled/Asleep. Sometimes these connections don’t show a username. When cancelling authentication, the disabled/asleep connection doesn’t go away and you have to disconnect it manually in Server Admin.
This time I tried deleting the same file and restarting just the AFP service. Almost immediately a new plist file was created, but the problem is still occurring. All clients are using local home directories, and some of them are not bound to OD. This particular server is an OD replica, AFP on the Master is operating normally. The only thing that recently changed was running the security patches this weekend.
Any suggestions would be of great help.
Thank you,
Ken
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