10.5.2. Mac-to-Mac File Sharing problem

Sorry for the duplicate post. I posted this in the "Using OSX" forum as well since I wasn't sure the best place to post it.
I have two Macs running 10.5.2. A 2.5Ghz G5 connected via an ethernet cable to an AEBS. And a 2.4Ghz MBP that is wirelessly connected to the same router.
In 10.5.1, internet access, screen sharing, and file sharing worked flawlessly on both Macs. I installed 10.5.2 on both Macs and now file sharing is a problem when initiated from the MBP. BTW, I'm using AFP for file sharing.
Here's the scenario. I go into Finder on the MBP, choose the G5 Mac under "Shared" in the sidebar and begin to copy a file from the G5 to the MBP. All is well so far and the transfer speed is fine (~6 mbps). As soon as I load any webpage using either Safari or Firefox on the MBP, the file transfer slows to maybe 50-100kps. Closing the browser does not cause the transfer to speed up again. If I initiate the same file transfer from the G5 there is no problem and opening webpages on either Mac doesn't affect the transfer.
Even while the file transfer has ground to a halt, Internet access and screen sharing initiated from either computer continues to work fine.
I've tried the usual things like rebooting and repairing permissions but nothing seems to help. Is anyone else experiencing this? Doe anyone have any thoughts on how to correct it?

All I can contribute is a "me too". Here's the situation:
I have a Power Macintosh G5 dual 2.7GHz that I use as a server at work. I frequently synchronize files (over AFS File Sharing) over an Ehternet LAN between it and my MacBook Pro. My MacBook Pro has been running Leopard for several months while my PowerMac G5 was running 10.4.11 until this week. Having been happy with Leopard on my MBP, I decided to upgrade my G5. Since then, file transfers between the two computers have been a royal disaster. When I initially connect I can get speeds of up to 1.5 MB/s, but it quickly drops to 30KB/s or less. I can't quite figure out the pattern. It does seem uploading to my G5 is not as affected as downloading from my G5.
Given the fact I didn't see any file transfer issues between the two computers before upgrading the G5 to Leopard (10.5.2), I suspect the issue is with the PowerMac G5 solely or due to the communication between two Leopard computers.
On my G5, I tinkered with the "Advanced" settings in the Network Preference Pane. Since I have read some comments criticizing Apple's automatic flow control for network traffic as implemented in Leopard, what I did was click the "Advanced..." button on the Network PrefPane:
* I then clicked on the "Ethernet" tab
* I switched "Configure" to Manually:
* I switched "Speed" to 100baseTX (my LAN is 100baseT)
* I switched "Duplex" to "full duplex" without "flow-control"
Since this switch, it seems things are much better as I am getting file transfer speeds of 11.0MB/s. I am not sure if this is a complete fix as I have only had it implemented for the last 20 minutes and I have noticed this problem is intermittent, but it seems to be holding. I suspect the problem is with MacOS 10.5.2's attempts to automatically control the flow of network traffic, since all I did was disable that. I'll post later if this doesn't hold up (and if my brain remembers to post). I will follow this thread for a bit as well.

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I use Leopard on a MacBook Pro, a MacBook and a iMac G4 800 MHz (unsupported model).
I have on the iMac and the MacBook Pro many users (the same ont he two machines) and I always use Fast User Switching.
I have had very few problems with Leopard until now; I like it even if there are some glitches or some new features which are not my cup of tea (hierarchical menus missing from the dock, stacks useless when there are many items, FireWall impossibilities (?) to open specific ports, Back to my Mac working on a Lan but not from outside until now, problems with a few apps (Parallels networking erratic), ...
Now about File Sharing.
Let say my main account is user1 (Administrator), and I have another user2 also administrator, plus user3, user4 standard users.
On the iMac I activate File Sharing.
On the MacBookPro, as user1, if I connect to the iMac Server (using afp://IPaddress_of_theiMac/) I do NOT get the dialog
"Enter your user name and password to access file server YYY
Connect to server as Guest or as Registered User"
but I directly get the dialog
"Select the volumes you want to mount on YYY"
From this, if I select user1 it mounts with full read/write permissions which is normal. It appears that I am connected with my Apple account user1&mac.com (same as mentionned in the Account panel of System Preferences).
On the other hand, if I try to connect to the user2 account, I only get limited access although in the File Sharing Preferences, user1/iMac is mentionned with full Read/Write preferences for the Home Folder of user2.
What is very surprising is that if I log on the MacBook Pro as user2, or user 3 or user4, then connect to the iMac, I first get the dialog to enter a user name and a password. This gives me access with the correct full permissions on user1/iMac or user2/iMac using the corresponding user name/password pair; this is the usual behaviour which is missing when trying to connect from user1/MacBook Pro.
Now for the Horror Story!
Trying to understand what was going on with the permissions of the user2/iMac account, I logged in to the iMac as user1, went to the Users folder and from there had a look on the informations about user2 home folder. In the lower part of the pannel, Sharing & Permissions says "You have no access" (which is normal) and this is followed by a table where users and permissions are listed. It seems user1 has Read and Write access in contradiction with the preceding phrase...
Anyway, I tried to modify these authorizations for user2 by clicking on the lock of the Information pannel and entering name and password of the administrator. Didn't go farther than that. By mistake, I hit Command-Delete and user2 was GONE from the list AND NOT ONLY from the list in the Information window! Using Fast User Switching and going to user2, nothing left on the Desktop and NO Home anymore.
In the System Preferences/Accounts panel, user2 was still mentionned.
In the Users folder, no user2 folder anymore.
Using once again Fast User Switching, I logged as user2 and got by magic an all new Home. Nothing left in Documents, Library or other user1 folders. Standard settings for icons, dock, etc.
My first move has been to use a very recent backup to restore everything (Thank you Mike Bombich from Copy Cloner!).
Once everything was back to normal, I had a look at the Trash from user1 and guess what, the Home folder of user2 was there, complete.
So now I am left with two questions
why is it I do not have the same dialogs when connecting from all the accounts although as far as I can see, configurations are the same?
why is it possible, from an Information pannel to delete the account of another user?
Thank you all for comments!

For the file sharing problems, answer is found in
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We have a new Mac mini with 10.8 and OS X Server app. The mini has direct attached storage and will be used mainly for File Sharing. There is a repeatable problem/bug with case sensitive folder names and file sharing. For example a folder named "Editorial" is inacessible via "Connect to Server" from a client on the LAN. The same folder with the same permissions, same everthing, except it is named "editorial" works perfectly. Change the uppercase E to a lowercase e and it works. The drive is formatted with normal HFS+. It is Not HFS+ case-sensitive. I have Xserves running 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 for file sharing and none have this problem.
Has anyone else experieced this? Is there a fix? Other than making everything lowercase.

Simon Slavin United Kingdom
If you have a problem please start a thread of your own. Don't get us confused between solving two different problems.
Simon,
The subject of this thread is dealing with:
"Server 10.8 file sharing problem"
Specifically for direct attached storage file sharing permissions issue.
Client computers having issues with folder permissions
These are exactly my issues as well. I was hoping to try a solution here or maybe proffer a solution if found elsewhere. I did not realize each problem should be opened as a separate discussion....
Sulking back into the shadow...

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Some help at http://www.geeksrus.com/2007/03/17/connecting-to-mac-file-sharing-via-vista/ perhaps.
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My folks got a new iMac today, and I've got a 2007 iMac on the same network. We're both running 10.8.2.
I had a few folders set up to share files. My public folder, Movies, and then a new fold called "Mom" that I set up specifically for them. The settings are identical on all the folders, but they can only access "Movies." If I try to access any other shared folders from their machine, I get the following error:
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hi there,
that error message sounds like you placed a shared folder within a parent folder that is not shared. It also can help to boot into Recovery Mode (pressing Command and R simultanously when hearing the startup tune), launch Disk Utility, select the disk containing your OSX installation (usually named Macintosh HD) and choose Verify Disk Permissions. Should any problems be reported select Repair Disk Permissions. Once that is finished, reboot normally.
Though unlikely, it might have happened during all the folder removing and readding that some Permissions are out of sync. So checking these Permissions is merely a precaution
Once you are back in "normal" OSX using your admin account, try this:
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mkdir /Users/Shared/Family
mkdir /Users/Shared/Family/Movies
mkdir /Users/Shared/Family/Mom
chown -R <placeholder> /Users/Shared/Family
chmod -R 755 /Users/Shared/Family
Be sure to replace <placeholder> with your account's short name (no brackets!)
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Select File Sharing from the left pane
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Now the other computers should be able to see and use the shared folder you just created.
If you create individual user accounts on your machine for every family member you want to access the shared folders, you can choose far more sophisticated levels of access privileges.
Hope this helps,
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2. - Ask the tech people at school for assistance. I know this can be had at times. I work in a school with all PC's and only a few Macs so they are not quite up to fixing our mac problems.
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Greetings...Apologies in advance for the lenght of this post...but I wanted to provide as much info as possible to the community to see if someone can see what I may be doing wrong.
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Hi
I have a serious problem with file sharing, someone please help.
I shared a folder "Accounts". The permissions for this "Accounts" folder is as follows:
David - read/write
User 1 - read/write
User 2 - read/write
User 3 - read/write
Everyone - No Access
I shared another folder "Software". The permissions for this "Software" is as follows
David - read/write
User 4 - read/write
However when I login as User 4, I can access the Software folder AND for the strangest reason, I can ALSO ACCESS Accounts folder!I tested the similar setup on my MackBook Pro, it looks properly. I cannot figure out why this is happening on the iMac box.
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Disk Identifier : disk1s3
Mount Point : /Volumes/Ext HD
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Universal Unique Identifier : DCCEEEF2-D8F9-3EC0-BCA0-713C8A587583
Capacity : 698.5 GB (750,022,115,328 Bytes)
Free Space : 590.8 GB (634,412,806,144 Bytes)
Used : 107.7 GB (115,609,309,184 Bytes)
Number of Files : 109,227
Number of Folders : 15,248
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : Yes
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 3

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Not in 18 years of Mac have I been as stumped as I am now.
Please trust that I have done all the usual and customary fixes.
Nothing I have done has gotten me success yet.
My wife and I have been networked for 15 years.
We do not use the Apple Firewall.
We have always “lived and worked” successfully
behind the firewall in our Linksys router.
We can both use email, web, skype etc. no problem.
OK...
No matter how I go about it...
I can see her computer
and I can file share TO her computer... no problem.
But...no matter how I go about it...no matter what I try and do...
When I go over to my wife's computer...
I cannot see my computer from her computer and...
I cannot file share from her computer to my computer.
I did a clean install of Leopard on her computer.
It made no difference.
WE DID NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM IN TIGER.
I have gone over David Pogue's section on file sharing in Leopard
in his missing manual a zillion times.
I swear... somewhere... there is some tiny detail I am missing?
Thanks!

Wow...first of all...
THANK YOU for telling me about Transmist.
That's a beautiful piece of software.
OK...
I went to my wife's computer.
I fired up Transmit.
I put in the IP address and info for MY computer.
I had no trouble getting to anywhere I wanted on my computer
from my wife's computer using FTP through Transmit.
But...I obviously don't want her to be restricted to having to use an FTP app
to share things with me...
So... what's next in terms of fixing using AFP from her computer to mine?
I hope I said that right...seems like you have shown me that the normal simplest way of file sharing is through AFP...right?
OK...I'm all ears...or...eyes”

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