Okay, I have two Snow Leopard machines on my network, my Mac Pro, and an Intel iMac, and my network is wireless (802.11n) with the iMac connected by ethernet to the wireless router, and my Mac Pro connected wirelessly.
For some reason file-sharing works extremely poorly, the Mac Pro can only connect to the iMac maybe 50% of the time (and it takes AGES), while the iMac is very rarely able to connect to the Mac Pro at all.
This is weird, because the network has almost no packet-loss and performs at close to the maximum 108mbps.
Further confounding matters is that screen-sharing works perfectly, I can connect almost instantly and never have trouble. Same deal with printer-sharing, web-sharing, etc., only file-sharing using AFP has trouble, and I can't fathom why!
As far as I can tell there is no firewall restriction, and if there were it would surely mean I could never connect, rather than sporadically.
My older Tiger iMac, also connected to the router via ethernet can connect to the Intel iMac instantly and every time, but can't see the Mac Pro at all (yet can connect to the Mac Pro's web server).
I'm very confused! I don't think I've ever had file sharing work properly to or from my Mac Prop, and previously my PowerMac G5, but I can't for the life of me figure out why!
For some reason file-sharing works extremely poorly, the Mac Pro can only connect to the iMac maybe 50% of the time (and it takes AGES), while the iMac is very rarely able to connect to the Mac Pro at all.
This is weird, because the network has almost no packet-loss and performs at close to the maximum 108mbps.
Further confounding matters is that screen-sharing works perfectly, I can connect almost instantly and never have trouble. Same deal with printer-sharing, web-sharing, etc., only file-sharing using AFP has trouble, and I can't fathom why!
As far as I can tell there is no firewall restriction, and if there were it would surely mean I could never connect, rather than sporadically.
My older Tiger iMac, also connected to the router via ethernet can connect to the Intel iMac instantly and every time, but can't see the Mac Pro at all (yet can connect to the Mac Pro's web server).
I'm very confused! I don't think I've ever had file sharing work properly to or from my Mac Prop, and previously my PowerMac G5, but I can't for the life of me figure out why!