Trouble browsing network shares

I am using an iMac as a server and quite often I receive a "connect failed " error when trying to browse the shares located on the iMac. When I can connect the connection process seems to take what feels like a long time. This behavior happens on both a wired and wireless connection.
Is there a way to configure a network so that network browsing is less error prone?

have you tried including the user name in the address?
ie: afp://[email protected]/

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