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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...
sphardy wrote: The sidebar entry is a result of the AFP servcie being advertised over bonjour - but bonjour and AFP are actually completely separate. So there are numerous reports of sidebar showing the AFP service, but not working. Bonjour uses network broadcasts, and because of that sidebasr items will appear even if mac and Duo have incompatible IP addresses, or if the AFP service is blocked. So the usual cause is IP addressing being "wrong" (eg an address name resolution problem), or the AFP service being blocked (it runs on port 548). This is also much more consistent with the TM issue - the AFP service is "seen" by TM due to bonjour, but you can't connect to it.
Also, there's Bonjour Browser with which you can investigate the Zeroconf registrations easily using a GUI.
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