Mac <-> Mac file transfers slow, lock up Finder

[apfhex]

I used to be able to plug in my PBG4 to my Mac Pro's second ethernet port and transfer files at fast gigabit speeds. A few weeks ago I tried this and, while it worked, the speeds were SLOW. Now today when I try it the Finder locks up and *can't* be force quit (and if I try everything else goes down with it). Eventually the transfer times out and the Finder relaunches. Update: I got it working again but it's still slow, not the speeds I should be seeing.

The only changes I can think of are that I've probably upgraded to 10.4.10 on both machine since the last time it was working properly (I'm not willing to downgrade to find out). I know the CAT5 cable is good and the ethernet ports are good. Airport is turned off on both machines so I know it's going over ethernet. I also have VMWare installed with I know adds its own "ethernet port", I wonder if that could be related?

 

[mdio1234]

Use a router

Id say use a router; and connect the Ethernet cables to the router and then try it. Your pb g4 and ur mac pro probably don't like being connected directly.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Use a firewire cable and do target mode (Startup one of the Macs and hold T). Or if you do do it over a network use FTP (transmit is a good FTP program). That will be much much much faster than doing any transfers through the Finder. The Finder is slooooow.

 

[apfhex]

Your pb g4 and ur mac pro probably don't like being connected directly.

No — there was previously no problem doing it this way, and why should there ever be a problem with that sort of thing?

 

[apfhex]

The Finder is slooooow.

Again, though, it used to be very fast.

Anyway. I fixed it by manually configuring Built-In Ethernet 2 on my Mac Pro for 1000baseT/full-duplex/1500 MTU. Don't know why it was choosing something slower using Automatic configuration.

 

[Altdo]

Me Too

I have the same problem when I'm trying to link two Mac Pro's at work. The Manual Connection did fix it but it seems strange that it would default to a slower speed. Also I found that simaltanious restarts also fixed the problem... or at least 50/50.

 

[emmanuled]

Problem with Mac Pro, OS 10.4.10 and Ethernet Gigabit

There is a problem with fast Ethernet since the last update of OS X (10.4.10).

See discussion below:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5259251&tstart=0

Apparently, it will be solved with 10.4.11 and/or Leopard.

Let's hope !!!

Emmanuel

 

[SC68Cal]

Finder and the AFP protocol sucks. Hard.