Mac network shares disappearing.

[zerassar]

Good morning all.

I am experiencing weird behavior from my Mac OSX server.

There is a mirrored RAID that holds a group of various shared folders over the network. Normally it works fine but occassionally the Mac client users complain that they can't see the contents of the folders.

From the server side the folders report that they are empty and hold no data.

This is fixed by restarting the server.

In a possibly linked scenario, last night I was accessing the same shares via my ubuntu desktop and Vista Laptop and about 5 folders within the share claimed to be empty(note not all folders claimed to be empty).

I freaked out thinking someone had carelessly deleted the work. But server side the folders were fully populated and appeared normal.

Once again a restart fixed the problem.


My Mac experience is not as great as I would like it to be.

[zerassar]

In an update.

The shares are now once again experiencing the problem. While on the server I attempted to copy a standard .txt file to one of the few folders that appeared in the share. This resulted in an read write error -36 and refused to allow me to access the drive.

This is from the server logged in as administrator. so it is not due to permission problems.

[Satcomer]

Make sure all your NTP (clock sources) and the same as the server and see if that helps because of a Kerberos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)) problem.