Lion Server file sharing

Hi guys, I have a client running Lion server 10.4, and roughly 5 Mac's around the office all running lion 10.4. Everything was setup and running smoothly until this morning when he lost all file sharing to the server. (Data is stored on the server and Mac's connect through finder>network>server) When hitting "connect as" there is no login window, the black bar just says "connecting" and doesn't get any further. I have tried restarting the file sharing service from the server, connecting manually via its IP with both AFP and SMB to no avail. I have also tried turning off AFP on the server and restarting that, as well as adding other shared folders, opening up permission etc. Hoping someone has an idea of what's going on!

No problem! We rebooted the server to no avail, and the client iMac. It's all sorted now, I was logged in remotely so I couldn't see all the machines at once, according to my client it just started working but I'm pretty sure there's some detail he left out in what he was doing. It did however seem to be an issue only on the one workstation so all good! Thanks for the quick response

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If you have a problem please start a thread of your own. Don't get us confused between solving two different problems.
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Sulking back into the shadow...

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