Mac Mini Server is running slow on just one machine.

Question

We have a Mac Mini OS X Server running in our workplace. We have FileMaker installed and we use the server for mostly just shared file storage and FileMaker databases. We have two iMacs on each floor - two upstairs and two downstairs. There is a switcher in each office to maintain a wired Ethernet connection, but today one of the machines is suffering from a really slow connection. All three of the other machines are fine, but this one iMac will take forever either loading FileMaker or connecting to the Server in Finder.
Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this? I'm thinking it might be the iMac but I can't think for the life of me why it would be so slow as the machine runs fine otherwise. Thanks!

Answer 1

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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