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Starlionblue
Sep 14, 2010Aspirant
AFP "connection failed"
Hiya, Did a customer install a few months ago with: - ReadyNAS Duo. - Seagate FreeAgent backup drive. - Buffalo WZR-HP-G300N routers. - iMac - Thinkpad Duo has both CIFS and AFP on. The iMa...
Starlionblue
Sep 15, 2010Aspirant
sphardy wrote: Something just came to mind - do you have SSH access to the Duo?
There was an issue some time ago regarding setting up AFP shares that showed very similar symptoms. The cause was a missing symbolic link on the NAS and recreating the link fixed the issue. If you have SSH access you could take a look (if you're comfortable with linux commandline)
I could, I suppose, set that up. However the NAS was not "touched" between my setup and the malfunction. I am 100% sure the customer never logged into the interface. So it would seem unlikely this link just disappeared. Or?
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