Shares Not Always Showing

Hi Guys,

 

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all!

 

We just upgraded our server to a mac mini server running 10.6.2 and I’m having 2 separate problems. Just to give you all the facts, I have the Server OS 10.6.2 running on the 2 internal 500GB hd’s which I have software raided (mirror). We have an external  Promise SmartStor DS4600 Raid 5 (4 X 150GB WD Raptor HDs) All of our file shares are on this RAID drive. I have the server running with 3 services, OD, AFP, and SMB. I have also bounded it to our AD server so I can use it for augmented user home directories (this works fine per Bombich instructions).

 

The first problem is that I can’t use Time Machine to backup both the OS and the RAID share. Everytime I tell it to also backup the external RAID share (which is on FW800) it crashes stating some problem has occurred. I have tried to back it up more than a dozen times. Any insights to this would be great. I was not sure if there was a “time machine list” to email, if there is one I would be happy to redirect this question there.

 

The second problem I keep coming into, is that the AFP file share keeps “crashing” and what I mean by this, my user will try to login to their shares, and one of two things will happen. It will fail the connection or it will only mount their Home User folder but none of the other shares. In both cases, there appears to be nothing wrong with the server, and in both cases it just needs me to stop the AFP share and start it again to solve this problem.

 

Any thoughts on both of these matters would be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks again for everything! Have a Happy Holidays and New Year! I’m hoping to have to ask you less questions in the new year.

 

Sincerely,

 

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Hakan Rudy Seber
Technology Coordinator    
Boston University CELOP
890 Commonwealth Ave, 253
Boston, MA 02215
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