Snow leopard server hangs macs when on.

So I am experiencing a weird problem. All my macs get the spinning pinwheel when my server is turned on.
If I turn off the server or unplug it from the network then every other computer works fine.
I am running Snow Leopard on everything else with all the latest updates.
I have a a mb and mbp late 2010 that this happens.
I did some dns changes a few weeks back. Other than updates that is the only change.
The dns update consisted of renaming my host name on the server and doing a changeip to update everything.
Thanks

You might want to look at this thread.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2465599&tstart=15
Several of us have tried with varying success to go the other direction. (Putting SL CLient on the new mini Server).

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