Can Leopard Server be repaired?

Leopard Server 10.5.5 (now 10.5.6 in an attempt to fix the issue but it failed)
Quad Core Mac Pro
7 users
No foreign start up items
Mac started being very slow. Restarted and now when you logon (at the server) it can take 15-20 mins of beach ball to get a desktop. During this time the server is unusable to the connected clients and the mail stops working.
Using interface (at the server) works OK for a while but then the Finder will stall again.
Server Admin reports there is no server to administrator?
Can this be repaired without restoring from back up?

Hi
Assuming no hardware problems what you've described could be down to a network problem? Check the network settings. Starting in Safe Boot should allow this to happen without the accompanying beach ball. Check patch cables. Make sure IPv6 is switched off. Does the server have a fixed IP address? Has the setting been changed to DHCP?
Generally Server Admin reporting it can't find itself is usually down to a problem with DNS. As you know Leopard requires a working DNS Service. Check this thoroughly. Can the server resolve itself to itself?
You don't explain the issue you were attempting to fix? If a Mail Server what restore method did you use? I'm assuming the server is configured as Advanced?
Tony

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Your post actually contains the Key to solve the problem and there is not really a big need for going all the way to use the Property List Editor to fork around /etc/ipfilter/ipaddressgroups.plist.
There has been much written on this problem but basically you see that most is trial and error and this does include myself and my findings in this post, too, but I think I can further narrow down on what CAUSES this problem and how to fix it.
First off, we are talking a combination of using NAT (Network Address Translation - bridging an Internet connection on an external network card over to an internal network card), Firewall (which is needed in OS X to be have NAT working because the Firewall "helps" NAT by doing its job, DHCP (for providing dynamic IP addresses to clients on the internal network, don't confuse, DHCP is not providing this service to the VPN clients, that is done by the VPN server), and - last but not least - VPN to provide access to not only to the server but to any machine on the internal network over the outside network card (aka, giving remote clients a chance to connect to the local network over the public Internet in a save and nice way).
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You can check if this is the case for your setup by temporarily opening the Firewall up to not block any traffic: in Server Admin, click on Firewall -> Settings -> Services -> Edit Service for: any and click "Allow all trafic from "any"", save it (and to be 100% sure, stop and restart the firewall. If your clients can NOW connect at least to the server, it was the firewall. Now don't forget to switch off allowing all traffic from any, or you will be left with an open doors server ready for anybody to explore
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