No AFP connection from Intel iMacs 10.4.6

Hi All,
My clients have two new Intel iMacs running 10.4.6. They called me in because they were unable to log on to their network drive.
When I got there, I noticed that when I went to the Go>Connect To Server window trying to connect via AFP did nothing. By that I mean I can type in an address (eg. afp://192.168.0.100) and when I hit the connect button NOTHING happens, it is like I never hit the button. It does not search for the server, the Connect To Server window just stays there.
If I try to connect via another protocol, eg. to a smb server, the window disappears as per normal and the "connecting to smb://192.168.0.100..." dialog box appears.
Appletalk is turned on in Directory Access and in the Network Prefs on both machines but they both have the same problem.
If I do a port scan of the iMacs I can see they have the required AFP port open. The problem seems to be getting them to connect in the first place.
Browsing for servers just brings up old aliases.
Has anybody seen this before?
  Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

try using the command line mount command:
e.g.
mkdir /Volumes/mountpoint
mount -t afp afp://user:[email protected]/vol /Volumes/mountpoint
and see what happens
Hope this helps
- Leland

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