kernel panic when copying to AFP network share

Gandalf123

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Mac Pro running OSX 10.4.11
Server: Windows 2003 Storage Server with AFP shares.

One of our designers works locally from his hard drive then at the end of each day, copies over a folder of the files that he has worked on, over to a AFP share on the Windows 2003 fileserver.

This has not been a problem for months and has only started about a week or two ago.
None of the other Mac users are experiencing the problem.
Also the problem only seems to be when copying TO the server and not when copying from it.
When the kernel panic occurs, he restarts then strangely enough, he attempts the copy over again and it works fine. ALWAYS after restarting following this kernel panic the copying to the server works. Very strange. It has been happening most days but NOT every day.
 
Been looking through the crash logs and at the same time this occurred yesterday morning there are several entries mentioning mdimportserver which I gather is to do with Spotlight.
I wonder is rebuilding the Spotlight Index would help ?
What would be the best way to do this ? Is a 3rd party utility such as Onyx necessary ?
 
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