Server Admin won't connect, ssh will...

Hi,
I am no longer able to connect to my server using Server Admin. It gets stuck on 'loading' for ages and then says the server doesn't exist. I can connect fine with ssh, and there's nothing in system.log or servermgrd.log. I've tried deleting the Server Admin prefs as mentioned in the archives but to no avail.
Any help appreciated.

James: obvious stuff, I know, but is there a packet filter between your admin machine and the server? Have you tried restarting servermgrd (sudo killall -HUP servermgrd would do it) or re-booting the entire server?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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kill the svrmgrd and log out. try to log in under a new account and connect. If it does go back to the account with the issue and try. If it does not then there is an a preference file causing the issue, which I have been unable to find. I basically labeled my preference folder to old-preferences and had one recreated. Since then I have been fine. You will notice that the SMB service is disabled and needs to be re-setup.

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I had a similar situation on a server I was called in to have a look at after it was upgraded via software update from 10.4.2 to 10.4.8, the Open directory db went corrupt and the server administration tools would not work after that.
In the end I had to ditch the open directory and rebuild the server from scratch as the other IT guy did not have a decent backup.
Have you repaired permissions or tried Disk Warrior on the boot drive?
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Ok, I ran memtest 4.2 and discovered the ram was failing, In replacing the dimm, they started working again so it may have been a mis-seated dimm module or some oxidation on the contact. My file system was already corrupt despite it being a fresh install. Then I checked and notice that the file com.apple.servermgrd.plist in Library preferences was gone. Either I stuppidly deleted it trying to fix the problem or it was hosed by the memory/file system corruption. Anyway, I copied it from another server and Both Server Admin and Server Monitor are now working.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1184552&tstart=0
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I could be wrong but I'm surprised you can even connect let alone admin a 10.3 server with 10.5 Admin tools? See:
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You could try this as an almost last resort ( would only if i have a reasonably recent backup of the data on that drive JUST in case it becomes non-bootable (Very slim chance; but 1% is still higher than 0%)
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I should have been more clear. This is on an 8-core Intel XServe.
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These lines repeated apprx. every 30 secs until I bounced the servermgrd. Now, I see that entry whenever I try to connect to the local server via Server Admin.
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