Apple File Service in Server Admin tools shows stopped but is running fine

Hi
I am having a bizzare issue and not getting anywhere fast and hope anyone can help and would be appreciated.
What happened is one disk failed in our Xserve Raid (Raid 5)and we had to replace the drive in the server which rebuilt itself fine.
The issue is since we rebuilt the raid, the Xserve is showing the Apple File Service as stopped with 10.3.9 server admin.
The service is running fine as all the users including myself can connect using AFP, but I have no way to manage the AFP connections on the server.
I have tried rebooting and putting the server tools on a desktop. Though I still have the same issue.
Has anyone come across a similar problem with a service running and unable to manage in Server admin?
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Bene
On the server launch terminal
su root (supply the password when prompted)
serveradmin status afp
The service should report that its ‘RUNNING’
serveradmin stop afp
serveradmins status afp
The service should report that its ‘STOPPED’
serveradmin start afp
serveradmin status afp
It should now be ‘RUNNING’ again
You could try running fsck and DiskWarrior on the RAID as the problem could lie with the Directory being damaged or corrupted. No need to reboot the server with the DiskWarrior disk (v3.03 or 4.0) just drag the application off the CD to the Server volume and run it from there. Make sure that all users are not connected to the RAID volume affected as DiskWarrior will unmount the whole drive.
Hope this helps.

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