Dual Ethernet (Tiger Server) = VNC only connection

I have come across a strange problem- only the VNC icon shows on one of our servers. I know all about ports 5900 and 3283, but it happens even when the Firewall is disabled (and I am on the same subnet). I just discovered that I can get it to come up as a regular ARD connection if I disconnect one of the [gigabit] ethernet ports. FYI, I am sure it is the cause of the problem- every time I plug in the 2nd port, it goes to VNC only.
I had trouble joining this machine as an OD replica until I disconnected one of the ports as well, but I don't understand why ARD cares.
Any thoughts? Workarounds? We would like to use both ports. We intend to have a lot of traffic to this machine and would like to use one port primarily for uploading data.
TIA,
Brett
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Hi,
I appear to have a similar problem with another hardware/system combiation : macmini running 10.3.9.
From time to time, it appears to be only a VNC computer, and RD doesn't allow me to produce reports or complete any of the possible tasks it allows. I can still control the screen of course, but nothing more.
I've read across all related messages, but it apears that either the problem is not solved, either it was a misconfiguration problem.
Here I'm sure of my config' because, I've got other Macs in my list that behave perfectly well. So the settings from my side are correct, and I don't know what to do further than opening and forwarding the 3283 and 5900 ports on the macmini.
For a couple of weeks the problem has became stalled, even reboots haven't fixed it. The only hack I did a month ago was to install and run osXvnc server on another port. I've stopped it for a while now, but it appears like it's still recongnized...
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