Ghost network volume

I have a "ghost" duplicate version of one of our network volumes. It appeared one day when I was working on a file in Illustrator. The network volume "unexpectedly disconnected" and left a dummy folder under
MyComputerName/Mac HD/Volumes/FILE_SERVER/...path to file
This randomly shows up when I'm trying to access the real FILE_SERVER through a program, i.e. saving a file. I can't seem to see it in a finder window. How can I get rid of it?
20" intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Excel 2008, read-only file access from network volume

Hi,
Need some assistance please.
I recently setup a Macbook Pro 17" 2.4Ghz (10.5.2) and did a migration from a Powerbook G4. Installed Office 2008.
Excel will not open ANY files from a network volume without giving a read-only access error.
Word is ok and opens files fine.
drag the file from the network to the desktop and it opens ok. drag it back and it copys ok.
so, I created a new user and the problem persists.
I fired up a Macbook running 10.5.2 and Office 2008 and it logged onto the network fine and opened the excel docs just fine.
mmm, ok must be an OS problem.
So, I have just endured waiting for the archive and install to complete on the Macbook Pro and the problem is still there !!!!!
Help.
Is my only fix going to be a complete erase and start again from fresh ?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

right then, as it looks like I'm talking to myself....
I have just wiped clean the Macbook Pro.
I installed Leopard from scratch, then installed Office 2008.
Logged back onto the network share, and the read-only error came up again, ONLY in Excel.
bugger.
Did the same thing with my Macbook and all is fine.
Copy the file to the local hard drive, opens ok.
I then copied the file to another Mac on the network.
mmmm, opens fine.
what's the difference....
mmmm, the machine it opens fine from is running 10.4
the machine which hosts all the data is running 10.3.9
could this be the problem.
Just done a software update check on the 10.3 machine and there are some security updates that need doing.
Going to run that now and see what happens, otherwise I think the iMac running 10.3.9 is going to need to come up to 10.4 and fingers crossed this will solve it.

Read-only file access from network volume

I get an read-only file access from network volume problem while sharing a drive from Snow Leopard to a Tiger install. Most of files were opening well, but *.fp7 (FileMaker) and *.xls (Excel) files won't open dealing with a read-only error.
As descibed in the last post of http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1406977 the client have the same share name of the server. Renomming it resolved the error!
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right then, as it looks like I'm talking to myself....
I have just wiped clean the Macbook Pro.
I installed Leopard from scratch, then installed Office 2008.
Logged back onto the network share, and the read-only error came up again, ONLY in Excel.
bugger.
Did the same thing with my Macbook and all is fine.
Copy the file to the local hard drive, opens ok.
I then copied the file to another Mac on the network.
mmmm, opens fine.
what's the difference....
mmmm, the machine it opens fine from is running 10.4
the machine which hosts all the data is running 10.3.9
could this be the problem.
Just done a software update check on the 10.3 machine and there are some security updates that need doing.
Going to run that now and see what happens, otherwise I think the iMac running 10.3.9 is going to need to come up to 10.4 and fingers crossed this will solve it.

I cannot create a catalog because everywhere I try on my computer, it comes up with cannot Lightroom cannot create a catalog on network volumes. And is there any way to contact Adobe directly? Would you be able to give me a phone number and/or email add

I cannot create a catalog because everywhere I try on my computer, it comes up with cannot Lightroom cannot create a catalog on network volumes. And is there any way to contact Adobe directly? Would you be able to give me a phone number and/or email address?@@

The short and direct answer to your question about catalogs on a network drive is that you can't do that. The catalog must reside on a local drive.
Here is a link to a list of telephone numbers. Choose one that is appropriate:
Adobe Connect Support phone numbers

Network volumes with the same name

Hi everybody.
I recently got a Mac at the office. Yay! But I have an issue with network volumes. There are several machines I need to connect to using smb/cifs. Two of our development servers (Linux servers using smb/cifs) are configured to share each user's home directory. Naturally, my user name on both machines is the same, and therefore so is the name of the smb share. Unfortunately, MacOS X uses the share name as the volume name when it connects. This means I have two volumes with the same name, so I can't make any aliases or have any quick access to them. That's because aliases resolve to the first of them which was mounted, regardless of which of them they were made to originally.
Other people in the office use Windows to access the shares, which poses no problem because in Windows you either give the full path of the share (including host name, which makes the paths distinct), or map a distinct drive to the share. I also mount them from my Linux, but on Linux you explicitly give the mount point, and thus make it distinct.
Any way to make the volumes distinct on the Mac? Otherwise to make aliases resolve correctly in such a setup?

there are several ways you can deal with this. first, you can use command line mount_smbfs command. it does let you specify a mount point. you can easily automate the process of creating a mount point and mounting the share using automator so you don't have to do it by hand every time. and you can also add the automator workflow to mount the shares to your login items. then it will happen automatically on every login. lastly, you can use autofs or add entries to /etc/fstab to automount the smb shares on startup. both methods let you specify mount points too. see this link for details
http://rajeev.name/2007/11/23/autofs-goodness-in-apples-leopard-105-part-ii/

Can't eject network volume after extensive browsing

Hi!
I have a problem that seem to be related to Mac OS X itself.
After browsing an AFP network volume for an extended time theres a quite big chance that the volume won't eject properly.
What happens is that the volume icon vanishes from the desktop but it stays in the side bar of a Finder window.
Even if one waits for hours it still won't go away and upon clicking on the volume in the sidebar a dialog comes up saying it can't be found.
I've tried doing "sudo -f umount /Volumes/volumename" but it doesn't do anything.
If one tries to do a restart the system gets stuck because it can't properly unmount the volume.
If one force a relaunch of the Finder via the "Force Quit..." menu option in the Apple menu, what happens is that the AFP Client process stalls. It shows up red in Activity Monitor.
I can reproduce this behavior on several different computers and on G5's browsing the volume sometimes leads to a Kernel Panic involving "vnode_put".
All machines are running Mac OS X 10.4.8.
The AFP volume I'm browsing when this happens consists of several folders that contains several .eps images. The file-structure looks like in this screen shot: http://home.mac.se/star-affinity/filestructure.png
Anyone else recognize this?
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The volumes are mounted via the Finder.
Ok, I'll try remove all the "dot" files I can find, but I can guarantee you it has got nothing to do with the volume not unmounting properly. :P
No, but seriously, I have made a clean install of the system on both machines and upgraded it to 10.4.8. I then duplicate 4 different .eps files that I copy from a third machine and I duplicate them and make a file structure somewhat like in the screen shot I link to above.
I then start file sharing on the machine with all the files and use the other to browse this machine. I browse from within the open/save dial of TextEdit.
I must say I wonder how any hidden files would cause a problem in this case.
I also wouldn't say that there are many issues with Tiger. It is this thing with network browsing and perhaps some kind of video driver issue that I've posted about here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3302238#3302238
Otherwise I think it runs great!
Can't understand why you're still at 10.3.9.
Anyway, thanks for trying to help!

Name and extension network volume - problem

Hi all,
I am 10.7.5 and when I get my network volumes the system I added an extension to the volume name!
example:
volume name: Music
in name and extension: Music-2
Why am I adding -2??
and how to no longer be
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All updates are installed regularly, so I am indeed at the newest version of all available software. I just haven't updated my signature here.
And the name of the attachment is mangled only when I use the client to send an attachment to any other Gmail account ( both Windows or Mac, accessed either through a client or directly at the receiving end). The same email cc'd to my school address shows the entire file name. And if I send the email through Gmail directly, then it is fine too, as I mentioned.
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InDesign CS5 hangs when conecting to network volume

Not sure if this is an InDesign issue or Mavericks problem, so I’ve posted here and there.
This problem only happens with InDesign if I have our file server connected (a share point on another mac running 10.5.8). If it is unmounted all works as it should.
Setup: Mid 2010 Mac Mini 2.4 Core 2 Duo with 8gb ram
I have:
Trashed various InDesign pref files
Reinstalled mavericks via the recovery partition and it’s on 10.9.4 with everything updated
Uninstalled InDesign using their own uninstaller - checked the included all prefs option
Reinstalled InDesign and updated it to 7.0.4 (CS5)
I then Repaired Permissions and ran maintenance scripts too.
Restarted
... still have the issue.
This is what happens if the network volume is mounted and I’m connect (as Guest):
InDesign will load
I can create a new blank .indd and save it
I can open that blank .indd
I can open that blank .indd if it includes just text
I can open that blank .indd if it includes just text and images (not located on the network volume)
If I open that blank .indd and it includes images that a located on the network volume or any pre-existing .indd which have images from the network volume InDesign hangs once the open dialogue box closes, after a force quite an .idlk file is left behind in the finder.
If I place/insert an image, the Place dialogue box opens and I can access the desktop & the documents folder via the sidebar and place/insert images from there into the document. But InDesign will hang if I select the Users Home folder, the Dropbox folder or any folder from the file server.
As I said this only happens in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop can open files from the network volume to their hearts content without issue.
Console log:
When I open the open or save dialogue in InDesign I get the following looped in the console – it will only stop looping those lines once I quite InDesign.
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 632 [this number increases by 1 on each loop] on so 0xffffff801c71db28
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 30 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.536 KernelEventAgent[50]: tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
01/08/2014 17:04:25.537 KernelEventAgent[50]: tid 54485244 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/file_server_raid', from '//;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@Server._afpovertcp._tcp.local/file_server_raid', not responding
01/08/2014 17:04:25.538 KernelEventAgent[50]: tid 54485244 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Logging in with uam 1 /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Restoring session /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Primary Reconnect failed 5 on /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: trying Secondary Reconnect on /Volumes/file_server_raid
01/08/2014 17:04:25.000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: get the reconnect token
01/08/2014 17:04:25.542 KernelEventAgent[50]: tid 54485244 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
Clearly InDesign does not like the network volume attached or there is some sort of permissions problem going on, I have no idea why this is happening, other machines running Mavericks and InDesign 7.0.4 have no issues.

Upgrading to osX Yosemite seems to have solved this issue

Mounting Network Volumes in the Command line

What is the command for mounting a Network volume in a command line.... Plus when done this way will it get the password from keychain?

The command in question is mount:
<pre class=command>mount -t type server:/path/to/share /path/to/mountpoint</pre>
This will mount the share /path/to/share from server server using protocol type (e.g. 'afp', 'nfs', 'smb'). The sharepoint will be mounted at the local /path/to/mountpoint
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All Network Volumes set as Login Items open in Finder on EVERY startup

...after updating to 10.5.8
I have a Mac running on an otherwise all PC network. Before updating to 10.5.8 I had 5 network volumes set to "connect" on startup automatically (System Prefs / Accounts / Login Items). This worked perfectly and connected to these volumes silently without me having to ever worry about it. I didn't even have to check the "Hide" boxes.
After updating to 10.5.8 however, it became completely annoying. Now it still connects to these volumes, but opens up every single one in Finder upon every startup. That's 5 windows I have to close every time I startup my computer. It may not sound like the worst thing in the world, but mind you I have to log out and back in every day for work. Even checking the "Hide" checkboxes don't do anything.
Anybody experiencing the same problem? Anybody know a workaround or fix? My company has a rather large and complex network so staying connected to certain folders that I use is a must. Thanks.
Screenshots:
Login Items - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Magick0ne/Other/Login_Items.jpg
Every Startup - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/Magick0ne/Other/Finder_Windows.jpg
Message was edited by: Pifman

Pifman wrote:
Thanks to both of you. I guess the search I ran wasn't good enough as I didn't find the discussion that you posted.
One of the possible workarounds posted there was to use a third-party program that I found difficult to understand and use. Instead I took V.K.'s advice and made an AppleScript and then made that script launch at login. Works like a charm.
Only difference is that my AppleScript isn't located in the Utilities folder (10.5.8), instead I got to it by going to Applications / AppleScript / Script Editor.
sorry, my mistake on the location.
Then I made a script and saved it as an application. I then put that application in my Login Items (System Prefs / Accounts / Login Items).
If you're having trouble finding the mount volume (or server) address, here's how you can find it: If you are currently connected to the volume(s) that you want to use, left-click it and hit Cmd+I (or right-click, Get Info). Use the address next to "Server:" - That's it!
Hopefully Apple will fix this bug soon so people don't have to make AppleScripts just to make the OS work correctly.
I wouldn't bet on it for leopard. leopard development has stopped now after snow leopard has been released. historically, Apple only releases security patches for old OS versions once a new one comes out. Interestingly, this bug is present in snow leopard too! or maybe they don't consider it a bug and this is how it should work. one can make a case for this, I guess.

Un-mounting network volumes with command line

Does anyone know how to unmount a network volume from the command line in OSX. Using umount deletes the mount but not the mount point. I can't get diskutil or disktool to do it.

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Network Volume adding Numbers and centralized libraries

Hello,
I would like to know what determines the numerical suffix to the network mount points. Currently I have a mac mini sharing my family iphoto library and music that two macbook pro's connect to. Currently my issue is in using iphoto library manager, it says to mount network volume before opening the iphoto library, but for some reason the library volume keeps changing.
Sometimes I'll login and it'll just be Pictures, next time it'll be Pictures-1, Pictures-2, etc.
The same thing happens when I use Time Machine shared disks, etc.
When I login through Finder, everything is ok, but I don't like having to always go into settings and re-find libraries for photos/media/etc.
This leads me to ask a few questions...
1) Is there any way to ensure that the volume names always stay the same?
2) I am looking to at some point implement Snow Leopard Server, and I need to know that if I have shared volumes over the server, that this won't happen. Specifically, I'll be logging into the server from different countries and I can't imagine having to constantly remotely manage it to fix volume names.
Currently, all of these drives that are showing as numbered suffixes are network drives (time capsule/NAS/Mac Mini shares over Wifi) so I'm trying to figure out what the underlying problem is so that I can minimize/eliminate it.
This is very frustrating for me as this is my first Mac setup and I jumped in headfirst with the whole family system, but I've spent years managing networks on PCs and I've never encountered this problem. I am trying to centralize our home network like I've done at other locations but before I invest further, I want to know that these little annoyances won't be a hinderance.
Thanks!!

I'm having the exact same issue, which breaks all my references to the volume. I have to update the path to include the new number <volumename>-5 currently. The problem happens when I do a restart, or loose network connection for other reasons. I happens on my desktop (Mac Pro) and my laptop (MacBook Pro) when mounting to my Tiger Server (PowerMac G5). It is extremely frustrating and makes code development a pain in the butt when I use my server for file storage.

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It is possible to hide a network volume on the finder.
Any suggestions?
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Finder -> Preferences -> General -> Show these items on the desktop and uncheck the 'Connected Servers' option.
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mount smb://server/sharename /some/other/mount
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