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Re: Sharing problem-mine is similar

I am having a similar problem with a single Mac OS X Server 10.1.5 (PowerMac
G4/533 DP) serving 3 Mac OS X clients and 8 Mac OS 9 clients. It seems that
on occasion the share points I have set are not available. I can not say
for sure that it ever happened as a result of something being done on the
server, but I know it often happens when I go to change privileges or after
a restart. Just all of the sudden my shares, the ones I setup, are not
available. Share like Users, Mac Manager and Netboot are still seen. I
suspect Retrospect as at least part of the problem, but that is hard to test
unless we want to loose data.



We have a Micronet 6 bay ATA to SCSI RAID tower setup with 4 120GB HDs. 3
HDs are in a RAID 5 configuration with the 4th setup as a hot spare and 2
bays are free. Micronet set it up before shipping. I have it connected to
an ATTO Ultra160 card, per Micronet's recommendation, with a 3 ft. Ultra160
certified cable. I formatted it into 3 partitions, a 20GB for the current
OS and applications, another 20 GB for a future OS and applications, like
Mac OS X Server 10.2 to be installed on while leaving my current OS intact
incase there is a problem and 3rd partition contains the rest of the space
for our data where my shares are located. All the shares that get unshared
are on this data partition. However, netboot has a share for each partition
and I believe when my shares are lost the netboot 3 share, which is on the
same partition as my shares, is still there.



No we are not using Netboot on any Macs used by users, but I have it on to
help me work on computers when there are problems and for setting up new
ones.



I do not recall having this problem with the internal ATA drive, but it
would die after 1 to 3 weeks requiring a 6 hour fix with a utility like
DiskWarrior. I believe either the drive was bad (IBM 75GXP 75GB drive) or
that the combination of that drive with that Mac and Mac OS X Server did not
mix or both. We have not had the same drive problems so far, but we have
this share problem. The fix is to log everyone off the server, make the
folders sharepoints again and then connect everyone back.



Thanks for any help.


Andrew Heath <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone might have run into this.
> I have a network directory set up between 2 OSX file servers. Both
> servers are using the network directory for the users and groups.
> On the server which is the parent, I am noticing random share points
> turning off. It happens in the middle of the day or even on reboot.
> The sharing only turns off for a few directories. I can manually turn
> the sharing back on and it works for a few days or a few weeks without
> problems. I have OS X and OS 9 clients connecting to this server. The
> logs do not seem to show anything irregular. Could it be directory or
> disk corruption? Any info would be appreciated.
> Regards,
> Andrew
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