AFP Share Points disappearing

This has been an ongoing problem, I don't remember it happening in 10.3.x but since upgrading to 10.4.x it has been a constant issue. the server is an open directory master bound with AD. The users login to the server using an AD account. After no specific period of time some (but not all) share points will show zero items. If the share point is ejected it will not show up in the list of available shares for 5 - 45 minutes. It will then become available again. This effects random users, sometimes a few times a day, sometimes once a week.
I have taken some users and given them local accounts and not seen the issue.
I assume this means that it is something to do with the passing of the authentication to and from the AD server.
If anyone else has seen this and knows how to correct it please let me know.
Thanks

I am having a similar issue with brand new Mac Mini server. I have established sharepoints on a number of folders. When I connect to them from a client, the drives mounts as remains present for up to 2 minutes and then disappears with an error message about it being no longer available.
There seems to be no pattern to this. At first I thought it was an issue related to user accounts or similarly named resources on server and/or client, some permissions issue I was unaware of but no matter what I try the problem remains.
I was considering re-installing OS X Server to attempt to rectify.

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Files copied from AFP share point are unwriteable by client

This is the same issue as: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8044984
Has anyone found a fix yet? Basically, when copying files from an AFP server, Leopard is not having the file inherit the permissions of the parent folder. It is inheriting the permissions of the file within /Volumes.
I am accessing an AFP share point on a server that has files that are 644 (readable by everyone, but only writable by the owner). I am not the owner. When viewing the AFP volume on my client within /Volumes/whatever the permissions appear to be 400 (unwriteable by the owner, no access to anyone else). When I copy the file over to desktop, the permissions remain as 400 when they should obviously be 600.
What does this mean? Even though I am NOW the owner, and it is on MY desktop, I am unable to write to the file unless I chmod it. Very, very annoying and this behavior is unique to Leopard. Tiger does not mangle the permissions.
The server is ubuntu-8.10-server running Netatalk.
The test clients are Leopard 10.5.5 and Tiger 10.4.11
On the server:
$ pwd
/srv/www
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1024 2008-11-23 23:29 test.doc
On the Leopard client:
$ pwd
/Volumes/www
$ ls -l
-r-x------@ 1 sauce staff 1024 Nov 23 23:29 test.doc
$ cp test.doc ~/Desktop
$ ls -l ~/Desktop/test.doc
-r-x------@ 1 sauce staff 1024 Dec 7 00:21 /Users/sauce/Desktop/test.doc
Message was edited by: iSauce

I don't believe this is a problem of leopard in general. i can not reproduce this behavior with any of my afp shares. no matter how i connect (as an owner or as a guest) after I copy something to the desktop it gets standard 644 (not 600) permissions.

Folders Not Showing in Server Admin AFP Share Point?

Hello all,
My problem is I can make a folder in Server Admin under AFP Share Point, But the Folder wont actually be made on the HD.
Under Server Admin AFP Share Point it will tell me that it doesn't exist?
So I thought I'll go to that point on the HD and make the folder then set the permissions to it... nope I can make the folder I can see it in finder and in terminal, But not in Server Admin AFP Share Point.
I have never seen this before any help is greatly welcomed.

Hi Kristoffer,
I have seen an attribute for folder object which could control SharePoint folder hide or show in webdav explorer view, you can use PowerShell to output the problematic folder property, see if it the case, then use the PowerShell code to set it's property
with blank value to make it show in explorer view,
Use the PowerShell to get the folder object and then check the property value with this code line $folder.Properties["vti_winfileattribs"]
#folder can be site, library level and folder level
$folder = (Get-SPWeb http://sp).Folders["shared documents"].SubFolders["folder1"]
#hide folder
$folder.Properties["vti_winfileattribs"]="00000016"
#show folder
####$folder.Properties["vti_winfileattribs"]=""
$folder.Update()
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/9ceafb38-24dc-466c-b497-2cee062b81cf/explorer-view-hidden-folder-attribute?forum=sharepointgeneral
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Searching afp share points

I am considering upgrading our file server xserve from 10.4.11 to Lion. The main objective would be to provide AFP clients fast indexed searching on share points. We use two, both on external RAIDS, one with read-only ACLs for archived projects.
The clients are all on SL at present. Would they need to be upgraded to Lion for these searches to work reliably?
Is searching AFP share points from the client a reliable feature of the Lion File Server?

Some would say yes, but then you'll find some people saying no.
The trouble is, everyone sets up their servers a little differently. If you set it up according to Apple's model and don't stray at all, then you shouldn't have a problem. The trouble is, you're going to have clients that have their computers configured differently, or perhaps incorrectly.
I would set up a test server first and try it.
Lion is still kind of out of the box different. You're very likely to run into issues. Some of them might be deal breakers. It's wise to run a test server first to decide if these issues are in fact okay.
FWIW, my lion server indexes and searches from clients just fine. But I have tight reigns on all my client computers.
Good luck!
-Graham

AFP Shares randomly disappear?

We have just setup a brand new Intel Xserve with Leopard 10.5.2 Server.
The server connects to a 10.3.9 OD Directory server for user authentication, since we have not yet migrated to an 10.5 Open Directory domain yet.
The server is only running AFP Services, and NOT acting as an OD Master server.
We have shared out about 13 share point, but using POSIX permissions for now as we are not sure if we can safely use ACL's for users on a 10.3.9 OD Domain.
All seems to work apart from some normal POSIX permission issues with folder ownerships ect..nothing too unusual for POSIX.
However after about a week or so we are seeing a very odd issue:
At random times, users when trying to access the server via AFP, only see a list of about 5 of the 13 shares. They cannot access the others even if you use the full AFP location to the shares.
I can try that same user login again minutes later, and all shares show up again.
Yet I can try again minutes later and only 5 shares show up again and so on....
I have seen a similar issue on early 10.4.x server and what I did then was delete the user account and recreate it...which seemed to work for a while, until it happened again.
Knowing that 10.5.2 has many issues with AFP, am I safe to blame this problem on that?
Short of calling support under our Apple Care agreement, does anyone have some hands on experience with this?
Thanks

Had a similar issue this morning. Server 10.5.2.
For us it turned out to be a change in the Finder preferences on the 10.4.11 G5 client machine. Took me a stupid two hours to figure this out.
Fixed it by going to the Sidebar tab and unchecking and then checking the Show Connected Servers box. For some reason two shares had been deselected and weren't appearing anywhere on the client machine.

AFP loses it's share points after approximately a day

After approximately a day or so of having the AFP share points accessible (internal harddrives - NOT NAS) when attempting to reconnect to the share points they are no longer available. All I see is the users home folder (if admin account) or the administartors drop box.
Anyone else experience this? I am at a loss.

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Share point in server admin not working correctly... I think

I suspect that the share point in server admin is not working correctly. In workgroup manager when I click on a user and then click on the "home" tab, under the full path field I see a file path of:
afp://server.mydomain.com/Users
However if I go to Server Admin -> AFP -> Share Points then click on the Users share and then click on the share point tab below, enable auto mount is disabled. How can this be possible? I thought for a directory to show up in home in workgroup manager it had to be set as an auto mount. Has something possibly corrupted? And what?

Here's a bit more information about our setup and our experiences with Apple's CUPS implementation:
On the server, all printer queues are set up with only lpr and ipp sharing enabled with the PPD setting for each printer set to Generic Postscript. We found that setting the PPD to the printer specific one on the server caused problems when clients tried to use printer specific options, like paper tray selection, etc.. The selection would be undone, apparently because the driver on the server would override the previous settings. Using Generic Postscript allows the client PPD settings to go through unmodified. Our printers are general a mix of HP LaserJets and some Sharp Copiers.
All clients use lpd to the server queues with the printers' actual PPDs configured. Using ipp is superior in that printer feedback (jams, out of toner, etc) makes it back to the clients, but ipp only works when the client, the server, and the printer are on the same network. If the ipp client is not on the same network, the client spooler immediately goes into a paused state and the print job is stuck on the client.
Using lpd to the server queues works reliably, but there is no feedback to the client. Jobs disappear from the client queue and go to the server, appearing to the user as a successful print. If the printer is down, there's nothing they can see or do about it.

Automount Share points not showing up?

So I've got a Share point named 'Documents', 'Enable automount' is check and it has a custom path of '/Network/Documents'. (BTW, is the appropriate place for that?)
When I log in as a user I can see that the directory '/Network/Documents' is being created (by clicking on 'All...' in the finder sidebar), but nothing useful is happening with it... double-clicking on it takes me into the folder about 0.5 to 1 second then "redirects" me back to the 'Network' folder.
I don't get usable icons (on the desktop) for the 'Documents' share until I go Shared > MyServer > Documents ... only then do I see the share point in any sort of usable state.
Am I missing something? I assumed that making something automount would place it on the desktop or the sidebar or something when the user logs in.

+I assumed that making something automount would place it on the desktop or the sidebar or something when the user logs in.+
No. An automount only works if your server is configured to host a shared LDAP domain (OD Master) and the client is bound to that domain (so that it can read the mount record).
With that said, there are two types of automounts available via AFP:
*A Dynamic Automount*, which is typically used for the home directory share point(s). Dynamic mounts "eject" and remount as the user who is logging in at login time. The mount path is configured automatically in /Network/Servers.
For example, a share point configured to automount (located at /Volumes/Data/Homes on the server with name myserver.myco.lan) will dynamically automount at this path on the client:
/Network/Servers/myserver.myco.lan/Volumes/Data/Homes
*A Static Automount*, which is typically used for sharing common files; a shared Library is an example. Static automounts mount at /Network/mountname, and are done at startup time. Generally speaking, these will only work if one of the following is true:
1. AFP Guest access is on for the share point being statically automounted. (Make sure that AFP guest access is on for the AFP service and on for the share point. Disable it for any other share points that don't need AFP guest access.) In this case, the automount will be mounted as the AFP guest user, not the currently logged-in or connected user.
2. The client system is bound to an Open Directory Master via directory binding, and Kerberos is working properly on the master. In this case, the static automount will mount as the logged-in user.
If you just want to make a share point mount automatically at login time, consider adding the AFP share point's URL to the user's login items instead of creating an automount. This will mount the share point in the "classic" manner, where it appears in the Computer window and on the Desktop.
To do so, you can manage the login items (loginwindow.plist or com.apple.loginitems.plist) for the user or group via Workgroup Manager. Open TextEdit (for example), and type the URL for connecting to the share point - afp://myserver.myco.lan/stuff, for example - and drag that text onto the Desktop to create an AFP Internet Location file. Then drag that file into the login items section of Workgroup Manager to add it.
If your server has Kerberos running, you're set. When a client logs in, he/she gets a Kerberos TGT from the KDC and a service ticket for AFP which mounts the share point; no name and password to re-enter. If not, you can check the "connect with user's name and password" box in the login items section of Workgroup Manager to have login window hold the user's name and password temporarily and enter it for him/her.
Also note that Leopard clients don't automatically show mounted share points on the Desktop (but they do appear in the Computer window of the Finder and in the SHARED section of the sidebar). If you'd prefer to have users see shares on the Desktop again, you can manage that via Workgroup Manager's Finder preferences section.
Hope this helps!
--Gerrit
Message was edited by: Gerrit DeWitt

Finder acting weird on AFP shares

Hi everyone,
I am using an OS X 10.8.5 Server with mostly 10.6.8 Clients. The clients usually open, save, copy to and from AFP shares provided by the server. Sometimes it happens that a client gets thrown out of a folder it is currently viewing on the AFP share. Once this behaviour starts it is near impossible to navigate down on the folder hierarchy since you get teleported back 1 to 3 levels. The number of levels depends on how fast you managed to drill down before you get thrown back. So an example would be:
The client views folder A on /Volumes/AFPShare/Stuff/Folder1
You start to navigate to a folder residing inside Folder1. If you now wait for a few seconds Finder will throw you out and back to Folder1. If you mangage to drill a few levels down really fast you might make it to /Volumes/AFPShare/Stuff/Folder1/data/more/here. But then you immediately are teleported back to /Volumes/AFPShare/Stuff/Folder1.
From this point it won’t ever work again until you unmount and remount the share. Sometimes even a reboot of the client is neccessary. It happens with ~10 clients so it is not just one isolated client acting weird. On the Server side I did not notice anything wrong or weird happening. There are no backups, syncs or other tasks running on the server while this occurs. It seems to happen more often when you are using list view (cmd+2), but I have already seen it with column view, too.
I’ve read about similar problems with SMB, but I am really stumped at where to look next. I already ruled out that it’s just with 1 client Mac. Deleting .DS_Store files did not help (not that I counted on that one).
Another weird thing in addition to that is that sometimes the Finder shows folders twice or even more often. These are exactly named the same. Sometimes they disappear when you want to click on one of them.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
Björn

Oh great! I had hoped it would go away. I suspect AFP to be the culprit. Since 10.9 defaults to the new SMB2 it might help to explicitly connect via SMB instead.
I am not sure since it’s been a while, but I believe the problem was happening less often if you disable both preview options using cmd+j in the Finder. Might be worth a try…

Weird error with AFP shares

Hi everyone,
I am using an OS X 10.8.5 Server with mostly 10.6.8 Clients. The clients usually open, save, copy to and from AFP shares provided by the server. Sometimes it happens that a client gets thrown out of a folder it is currently viewing on the AFP share. Once this behaviour starts it is near impossible to navigate down on the folder hierarchy since you get teleported back 1 to 3 levels. The number of levels depends on how fast you managed to drill down before you get thrown back. So an example would be:
The client views folder A on /Volumes/AFPShare/Stuff/Folder1
You start to navigate to a folder residing inside Folder1. If you now wait for a few seconds Finder will throw you out and back to Folder1. If you mangage to drill a few levels down really fast you might make it to /Volumes/AFPShare/Stuff/Folder1/data/more/here. But then you immediately are teleported back to /Volumes/AFPShare/Stuff/Folder1.
From this point it won’t ever work again until you unmount and remount the share. Sometimes even a reboot of the client is neccessary. It happens with ~10 clients so it is not just one isolated client acting weird. On the Server side I did not notice anything wrong or weird happening. There are no backups, syncs or other tasks running on the server while this occurs. It seems to happen more often when you are using list view (cmd+2), but I have already seen it with column view, too.
I’ve read about similar problems with SMB, but I am really stumped at where to look next. I already ruled out that it’s just with 1 client Mac. Deleting .DS_Store files did not help (not that I counted on that one).
Another weird thing in addition to that is that sometimes the Finder shows folders twice or even more often. These are exactly named the same. Sometimes they disappear when you want to click on one of them.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
Björn

I believe I've seen a similar problem in my development.
This was occurring in Beta 2 and I believe I had it happen in Beta 3 as well.
This might be a way to repro the issue?
1. Have several collections.
2. Follow Robin's post to combine the collections into one:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3c55b873-a0c7-4cc8-9bab-eaf809f62ab0/exporting-data?forum=projectsiena
3. Change one of the underlying collections - add another column to the collection without using the function 'addcolumn' for example)
What I saw happening is that the 'master collection' would say there was a problem. To fix it, I simply had to drop off the last part of the function and then add it back (similar to what Ptr is saying in his posting).
The function in this example looked like this: Collect(MasterBackup, Import1!Data)
By removing Import1!Data and then typing it back in the problem would be resolved.
I hope this helps to add some insight -
Thor

User Passwords Rejected on AFP share mounts?

User Passwords Rejected on AFP share mounts?
(OK, my last post got buried, and perhaps too long), try again. Very brief
Issue:
After so many days, a User's AFP share password is rejected? What gives.
If you reset it, several days later, same thing, rejected.
Is Netinfo Database corrupted, what can / should be done?
- Stand Alone server (with AFP and FTP services running, all other services off, not running.
Summary Info for user having issue:
Location: 192.168.0.50/NetInfo/DefualtLocalNode
Home: No Home Directory
Primary Group: Users (20)
Password: Shadow Password
I have deleted that troublesome user name and created a new name (for that user), just in case, in the re-creation of the same user name (after deletion) some corruption gets inherited.
thanks,
macguitarman
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Using Tiger Server, I have found that enabling ACLs, or Access Control Lists on the volume, and then specifying users and/or groups into the specific ACLs for the share point has been very helpful. Also note that 10.4.10 server seems to work better than 10.4.11, so if you haven't upgraded, don't go beyond 10.4.10. .11 seems to have some permissions issues and other problems.
I assume you are connecting to the server via AFS (i.e. Go > Connect to Server > ip address) and not SMB? SMB sometimes is more problematic about ownership. But either way, Mac or PC clients, it seems ACLs are the way to go.
Crazy as it seems, on my server, even if the owner is, say, admin, and the group with r/w permissions is, say, Prepress, it helps to specifically add the Prepress group to the ACL for that share. Then be sure to propagate the permissions down (unless you don't want to, for some reason). To do this, click the little gear icon and propagate all the permissions -- owner, group, acl, etc. down. This will take a bit of time depending on how much stuff you have. I also find that a server reboot can be helpful.
[[ All this said, 10.5.1 seems to do some crazy things, and I hope 10.5.2 addresses them. I have one machine (not user ID) that always creates a folder on a share with no permissions for anyone. Only from that Mac; the same login on another works just fine. Go figure]]

How can I resolve slow browsing in finder when connected to a share point on a linux box?

Hi,
I am having huge difficulties when browsing a share point that is on a Linux box. I am connecting to it with a Macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.5.
Initially there was an SMB share point setup on the server which was extremely slow to browse. I then setup an AFP sharepoint thinking that would help with the issue but it hasn't made a difference at all. The issue is that files take forever to load when browsing using Finder. Moving between folders on the sharepoint takes extremely long since files are slow to load.
There are very few options available on line to help with this and so far none of them have worked. I think the problem is with Finder and the way it indexes the files but I could be wrong.
Please help!
Nabeel

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How to remove corrupt share point?

Hi All,
I have a corrupt sharepoint that is killing my backups, I'm in need of some help getting rid of this "beast".
OS X Server 10.5.4 Advanced.
Mac Mini 1.83 GHz 2GB RAM.
Server runs on internal drive, backs up to external firewire drive.
Server has been in daily use for about 4 months without incident.
Here's the what happened and what I've tried so far.
I Created a new sharepoint in ServerAdmin.
Shared folder: /Library/WebServer/Documents
Custom AFP name: /WebDocs
The sharepoint "/Documents" was created, but I was unable to see or connect to /WebDocs.
The first workstation connecting to /Documents resulted in a server crash (did not record details). Server seemed to be OK after rebooting.
A second attempt to connect by the same workstation (Windows 2000) worked as expected and the user was able to read and write data on the server.
As "/Documents" conflicts with an important local name, I deleted the /Library/WebServer/Documents share point and set up /Library/WebServer with Custom AFP name at default "WebServer".
The sharepoints "/WebDocs" and "/Documents" do not appear in Server Admin.
Now the server, and workstations bound to it, have an alias "/WebDocs" which seems to be corrupt and causes Superduper backups to fail with an error:
Error - SDCopy: Failed to copy extended attributes to directory /Volumes/SrvBack/WebDocs:
Too many levels of symbolic links
Running Repair Permissions did not help.
Get Info on /WebDocs (in Path Finder) shows:
Kind: Alias
UTI: com.apple.mount-point
Locked: Yes
Owner: root
Permission 000
type: 'lcmt'
Creator 'rhap'
BUT...
server:/ root# ls -ld /WebDocs
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Aug 3 12:08 /WebDocs
server:/ root# chmod -h 777 /WebDocs
chmod: /WebDocs: Too many levels of symbolic links
server:/ root# rm -d /WebDocs returnes an error:
rm: /WebDocs: Resource busy
server:/ root# mv /WebDocs /BrokenWebDocs
seems to work as expected, but /WebDocs alias is recreated on server boot.
server:/ root# ls -l /WebDocs returns an error:
ls: WebDocs: Too many levels of symbolic links
server:/ root# ls -l /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/Sharepoints
shows all expected sharepoints, WebDocs is not present.
server:/ root# sharing -l
lists all expected sharepoints, WebDocs is not present.
LDAP Log does not list WebDocs or Documents
Server Log contains:
Aug 4 13:14:35 server servermgrd[88]: servermgr_filebrowser:
FSPathMakeRef failed with status -35.
path: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/WebDocs
I am guessing that the corrupt /WebDocs share point is contained in the LDAP directory, because it's propagated out to the work stations, but I don't know where to begin looking for that.
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
-Glen
Message was edited by: gihrig

The solution to this problem:
Workgroup Manager/Preferences/Show "All Records" tab and inspector.
Select the "All Records" tab (Target icon).
Use the search tool to find the errant sharepoint and delete it.
Problem solved.
Odd that the sharepoint did not sow in the System Admin tool...
Regards,
-Glen

Share Point 2013 Designer not showing platform as "Share point 2013 Workflow" at the time of workflow creation.

Hi All,
I am trying to create workflow for my Share Point 2013 site. To do this, I installed Share Point 2013 Designer,
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But when today, I tried to create workflow, I found that "Share point 2013 Workflow" platform option was not there. Because of that I am unable to create and deploy workflow on my SP 2013 site.
I am really not getting the problem. As I created some workflows using "Share point 2013 Workflow" platform on same share point designer and now I dont see that option in dropdown.
Please suggest me something for this. I tried all possible solution which are present on internet.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Since you are posting the thread in SharePoint 2013 server forum, I assume you are using SharePoint server 2013.
I understand the option SharePoint 2013 platform disappears when you create a workflow in Designer, the issue might be caused by workflow manager. Please refer to the article below and check workflow configuration per the steps listed:
http://techbrij.com/the-option-sharepoint-2013-workflow-platform-not-available
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User can't access afp shares

About once every other day one of my users losses the ability to log onto afp shares on the server.
In the Server App under Users his "Allow user to log in" tick box has become unticked. If I tick that and save, everything is fine for a day or so then it becomes unticked on its own again. As usual with computers in generally becomes unticked at a crucial point when everyone is busy !!
Any help would be appreciated. I can see nothing unusual in the logs and I have tried reseting his password.

I just went from 10.8.5 to 10.9.2 and have this same problem. I first noticed in DNS 127.0.0.1 was removed during install and not put back. From there I got everyhting working except afp.
Error message is:
Kerberos fail: gss_acquire_cred major status_value <458752> minor status_value <0>
major error <1>: No credentials were supplied, or the credentials were unavailable or inaccessible.
minor error <1>: unknown mech-code 0 for mech unknown
Trying:
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/Local/Default
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Creating the service principals
OSStatus CreateKerberosPrincipals(CFStringRef, CFStringRef, const char *, CFMutableDictionaryRef, Boolean): unable to find admin record: -1
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