Greetings-
I am having some problems. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I run a small design studio. I currently have a dual 2.0 G5 as a combo workstation/file server for the studio. I also have a Dell and an iMac G5 on the same LAN. The iMac G5 is the second workstation.
Lately it has started taking forever for the Finder on the iMac to fully load on startup. It is behaving like my laptop used to behave when I would take it home and it would takeforever for Finder windows to become active as it looked for studio LAN folders in the finder menu (handy shortcuts for at the office) that weren't at home.
Athough the lagginess is familiar, that problem cannot be attributed to not finding the network - the iMac finds the network, but it takes forever to boot and ones the volumes are showing, you click on it to see contents, and it will take maybe 20 seconds to show the contents. Then you click on a sub-folder to open it and another 20 seconds or so. Then the whole finder crashes. It will not be a functional workserver again until I solve the problem.
I wondered if there was a hard drive issue with the file server G5. it crashed a couple of weeks agao and only came alibe again after I ran tech tools and it rebuilt the disk directory file. However there are no performance issues whatsoever when working on the host machine.
Anyone have an idea what could account for the problems?
Of course it's happening while I'm in a big crunch and need to get all sorts of work done!!
Thanks for any thoughts.
I should mention I'm on 10.3.9 on all macines.... will be looking at Tiger after I see if there are any troublesome networking issues.....
Scott
As an addendum, I'm wondering if anyone here thinks it is a bad idea to have a combo workstation/file server for a small design studio LAN......
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