Very slow connection to xserve via afp or smb

[mhoffman13]

Help. File transfer and connection speed to our Xserve are painfully slow from newly purchased iMacs. The Xserve is only used as a file server, its running 10.4.11. The problem seems to be only happening on brand new iMacs running 10.6.3. When connected either over afp or smb copying files is many times slower than usual. Other machines on the network running either 10.4 or 10.5 have a normal connection speed. To try to rule out OS incompatibility I connected the new iMac running 10.6 to another computer running 10.4 over the network. The file transfer speed was fast as normal. So it seems the problems lies with the X serve (maybe). The afp logs either access or error don’t show anything unusual. One thing that did look different was when the imac was connected to the Xserve the user had its id listed as its IP address. The other machines connected, had the id of broadcasthost. I also noticed that when connected from the new iMac I can only see one of the mirrors. When any other computer connects both mirrors are shown. Tried a restart of the Xserve but the problem persists

Thanks in advance for any advice

[badm0j0]

This sounds similar to an issue I had that only affected 10.6 users on my network and then only some of them. The problem affected login and network access times. Just logging into the network or mounting a file server took a very long time from 10.6 users. This issue was that the local domain (from my PC server setup days) had been named domain.lan . Apparently Bonjour thinks it owns “.lan” and confuses any kerberos or other authentication attempts happening on that domain. If you do have a domain named .lan, you’ll need to create a subdomain “.local”, etc to include you mac server either on its DNS or the servers that handle DNS. Either way involves some hairy steps through OD & DNS to make it happen right. If this applies to you, post here and I’ll give you more info on the process.

Mike

[badm0j0]

I am completely retarded today. Sorry. This all relates to .local not .lan.

badm0j0 wrote:

This sounds similar to an issue I had that only affected 10.6 users on my network and then only some of them. The problem affected login and network access times. Just logging into the network or mounting a file server took a very long time from 10.6 users. This issue was that the local domain (from my PC server setup days) had been named domain.lan . Apparently Bonjour thinks it owns “.lan” and confuses any kerberos or other authentication attempts happening on that domain. If you do have a domain named .lan, you’ll need to create a subdomain “.local”, etc to include you mac server either on its DNS or the servers that handle DNS. Either way involves some hairy steps through OD & DNS to make it happen right. If this applies to you, post here and I’ll give you more info on the process.

Mike

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