Hi Ryan,
Thanks for helping. First, my reference to Eclipse may just have muddied the water, so ignore it. I'm not sure what the issue is there, since I'm seeing mounted volumes in Eclipse that do not match up with what Terminal shows in the Volumes directory. But just so you know, Eclipse is an open source Java-based IDE, widely used on many platforms for developing Java and a number of other languages. My point, badly explained, was simply that since Eclipse's File Browser looks directly at the machine, rather than looking through the Finder, I was seeing something different than in a Finder window.
I should have related the Finder view to what I can see in Terminal. That would have made more sense.
So -- to address your questions: this is a very loose network. It's me and a few other machines, all of which are mine. There's no central authentication source -- no LDAP, no domain. There are three Windows machines, one XP and two Win2003 servers. The Windows machines have shares set up on them in a usual, single-machine manner. Authentication passed to a networked machine is just a matter of authenticating as a user on that individual machine. The Windows machines are part of a workgroup, but not a domain. There is no DNS service on the network at all. As far as enabling Services for Macintosh goes -- they're enabled. But accessing this machine has worked fine for the last year, and accessing the other Windows machines on the network still works fine. So I'd rather not have to rework the way I access things if necessary.
So -- here's a little more information: as I said, I cannot see the server in the Finder as a mounted Volume. (Is there a way to view the Volumes in the Finder, other than the view that shows mounted volumes in the upper left section?) When I attempt to connect by navigating through the Network, I received the "bad alias" message.
When I view the contents of the Volumes in Terminal, I see an entry which reads "MEDIUMCOOL;MEDCOOL-SERVER
I don't know whether there should only be a single entry for the machine, or whether the double reference -- one pointing to the machine, and one to the share -- is correct. And obviously, I don't know why the share does not appear in a Finder window or in standard system dialog boxes, such as "Open."
That's the crux of it, I guess. What have I done that mounts one (or two) references to the server upon login, but prevents the Finder from allowing access to it?
Thanks,
Tom
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by: ryanhuntPosted on 2006-03-16 at 02:20:39ID: 16203407
Hey Tom
Let me have a stab at this.
First off, I don't know what Eclipse, or what it is, but I'll assume it's a program on Mac you use. I need to know more info from you - is this mac a part of a Directory? I.e. do you have centralised authentication? It's possble that if you do, that's how you see multiple copies of the same server when you browse to it. It might be pushing the server names/connections to you. Alternatively, it's possible (although unlikely) that if the server has multiple DNS entries for the same server, it'll be showing up mor ethan once. Check with the DNS people that this isn't the case.
As far as the share already mounted, it's possible that whatever has happened in the past has created an 'alias' somewhere. Check in the '/Volumes' directory and ensure that there aren't any folders in there when you've not mounted anything. It's possible that you or some process in the past has created a folder there called 'medcool-server2' that is causing it to think that it's already been mounted?
Have you considered enabling 'Services for Macintosh' on the servers and using AFP? This might be a way around the problem?
Hope this helps!
Ryan.