[richardab1967]

This sounds very similar to problems we are encountering with 10.3.5 server on G5 tower. Randomly, sometimes weekly, sometimes daily we are all (12 clients 10.3.3-10.3.5) disconnected from the server, the server does not crash but AFP has restarted.

Graphs in server admin show quite a lot of cpu usage and network traffic around the time of disconnect although nothing especially intensive is being done.

Also afp connections shows two connections per person, the duplicated entry has same name, type, address and connected time, but idle time is often 0.00 for one entry and a figure for the other. What is all this about?

The AFP crash logs always reports:

Host Name: server.winch.dea
Date/Time: 2005-01-14 10:29:36 +0000
OS Version: 10.3.5 (Build 7M34)
Report Version: 2

Command: AppleFileServer
Path: /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 15264
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x0109e004

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 AppleFileServer 0x000a7e6c 0x1000 + 0xa6e6c
1 AppleFileServer 0x0003f58c 0x1000 + 0x3e58c
2 AppleFileServer 0x00053eb0 0x1000 + 0x52eb0
3 AppleFileServer 0x00053fa0 0x1000 + 0x52fa0
4 AppleFileServer 0x0005153c 0x1000 + 0x5053c
5 AppleFileServer 0x00006828 0x1000 + 0x5828
6 AppleFileServer 0x0000669c 0x1000 + 0x569c

I have no knowledge of logs so I was hoping someone out there can translate this.

Would be grateful for any help as we are using network home directories which means everyone not only loses connection to their files, their desktops go down and require a force restart.

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