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I was running into the same problem. What I did was update my server (IMAC) to OSX and I have never unexpectantly been disconnected. I believe it is a OSX to OS9 connection problem. To test it, I connected to my old server running OS9 and my new server running OSX and my connection to the OS9 machine stays connected some days all day long, on other days, it drops every few minutes. I contacted APPLE and they had no concrete answers.

I am now in the process of upgrading all of my Macs to OSX, which means that my 6 old Imacs are being replaced with Emacs. I have found that the old Imacs just dont cut it with OSX, expecially since the HDs are only 6GB. Trying to convince my boss that the Old Imac are 6 years too old was an obstacle in itself. 6 years out of an Imac was a good investment. Time to try to keep up with technology.

Billy

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Originally Posted by vintagemarketing

I was running into the same problem. What I did was update my server (IMAC) to OSX and I have never unexpectantly been disconnected. I believe it is a OSX to OS9 connection problem.

The problems I have are OSX->OS9, period...

While I have multiple OSX boxes, the applications running on the server in question are OS9-native. It's counterproductive to run them on OSX+Classic.

Upgrading those apps will be not to OSX, but to one of the Linux servers here...

{I'd never buy an eMac myself; just like with iMacs, a video system failure gets you a dead box. While slowed by lack of RAM and the laptop drive, at least MiniMac's get you out of that trap..}

HELP - same problem....

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Originally Posted by Zeitkind

FinderSync is a little nice tools refreshing finder windows often - no more problems with new files not showing up.

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/15945

It's a tool anyone should have anyway, but it might also avoid the connections to go asleep if a server window is open. AFP 3.x supports sleeping connections, AFP2.x (Windows 2k/2k3) not, but it seems, that OS X often does not recognize the correct version of the peer.
Will report if it does help, the connections tend to drop several times / day on these machines - very nasty.

Since upgrading to Windows 2003 Server at our school, OS X clients (10.3) are being disconnected randomly, sometimes even while being used. **We are using a AFP connection to the server on all Apple computers. *We have no problem connecting but then the connection will randomly drop off – but only on the OS X machines. *
*The time it waits before disconnecting seems random. This problem doesn't seem to happen on the PC clients or the OS 9 clients only the OS X. *Any help would be appreciated

OSX - Win2K server disconnections

I am joining this thread because I have been monitoring this subject and have indeed posted messages on the subject before. My problem is very similar to those already posted. I have disconnections to Windows 2000 server when copying some files from OSX machines only when using AFP, if I use SMB this is fine, problem is I use mixed macs (OS 9 and X) and the OS9 machines can not communicate via SMB without third party software (eg. Dave), and if I copy using SMB the other Macs using AFP do not recognise the file types. I assume there is a compatiblity issue with the version of Appleshare published to the Mac OSX machines as the OS 9 machines use Microsoft UAM. The disconnections do not follow any patterns sometimes the same file will copy other times there are disconnections.

Unfortunately I can not offer a fix but am joining the (probably) many with the same issue, hopefully someone will give us a good pointer!