No Finder Go "Connect To Server" option

After installing OSX 10.6 I no longer have the Finder > Go > "Connect To Server" option. Command-K does not activate it. How can I connect to a known server? How can I get this option back on the menu?

Thanks!!!!
That helped me...
I could pull up a list of other computers on the network (command-k), but when I tried to connect to any one, I got looped back to the list. Wouldn't connect at all.
Deleting the finder prefs worked like a champ.
rock on.

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I have a series of iMac computers (running 10.5.8) that finder's go menu is missing the "connect to server" option. Neither does "Apple + K" work on these machines.
I tried adding the "Connect" button to the tool bar from the customize toolbar option. Once added the icon is grayed out. The computers are connecting out to the internet, but I need them to specifically pick up servers from our school for server run applications. I am not sure why this option is no longer available on my machines. I try reinstalling the op system on the machines, and it still comes back the same way.
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Thanks for the reply V.K. (Those are my initials too
I do manage the machines on a server. I checked workgroup manager and the settings are the same as the rest of my iMacs for these particular machines. The connect to servers command is checkmarked in the finder preferences of work group manager.
I was logged into the admin account for each machine while trying to find this finder preference. I did delete the plist as directed, and when relaunching finder the connect to server did not come back.
You'll have to forgive my ignorance as I am a teacher managing machines for my building, as I am teaching myself these basics. This is only happening on a handful of machines. All running up to date 10.5.8. They suddenly stopped working after our school did a network change (separate vlans). All the other machines accepted the change, but these machines suddenly lost this finder preference. Very odd...
Thank you for all your help.
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I should have mentioned that the command provides no output if it succeeds, but will give an error if the key isn't found - so when you say you saw the error after the second command, does that mean there was no error after the first? The commands were intended to attempt to delete ProhibitConnectTo' property from two files where it is known that the key will be recognized but the property wouldn't necessarily be exepcted to exist in both.
Knowing that the affected account is "admin" is helpful because it pretty much rules out user limitations (an "admin" account normally can't be "managed"). The fact that only the original account is affected does narrow things down considerably since it rules out a "Finder.app" Menus.nib hack. It also suggests that if a ".plist" file is responsible, it will be one in the user's folder, ruling out one in eg. "/Library/Preferences".
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Hello,
I already found an archived discussion (https://discussions.apple.com/message/10356039#10356039) which explains my server issue.
Anyway I will write some further thoughts down here and I don't use VPN.
Our company with about 40 (Lions, Mountain Lions and Snow Leopards) employees runs a Xserve with Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
The problem I have consists of the File Sharing Service over AFP and/or SMB (I tried them both).
Most of our clients have no issues connecting with Finder to the file server and mount shares.
But a few of them have issues regarding the connecting time (~1–2 min.) until a share is mounted successfully.
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Anyway this waiting time is annoying.
I don't really know whether this is a server or a client issue.
The issued clients are OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion respectively.
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When ever I need to connect to a smb server using Finder, I get the constant error -36.
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Wired, wireless, and even VPN, no matter how the mac is connected to the net.
Every non-Mac server at work tested gives this error when trying to connect to their shares.
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http://www.macwindows.com/tiger.html and Apple kbase article 301580 suggestions for nsmb.conf didn't make any difference. (the nsmb noauth being a very poor choice if it would work)
smb.conf and nsmb.conf any security settings don't make any difference.
I have working details for connection, so share, ip and dns name, username and password for connection work.
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Connecting from any Windows or Linux virtual machine on Fusion on these same Macs work too.
I have changed the workgroup to the correct one in Directory Access.
I have tried all connection syntaxes suggested in http://www.macwindows.com/tiger.html - none of them still work in Finder, always identical results.
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I don't have access to edit any settings on the servers that we need to connect to. Only sharename and password that work for connection, but don't allow any editing on the server's settings.
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I think I have found what caused it. Not solved, but at least this seems so far the most likely cause:
The share name contains hyphen.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106471 Mac OS X 10.1 or later: How to Connect to Windows File Sharing (SMB) : Date Modified: August 01, 2007
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I was just wondering if there was any reason why I can go Finder > Connect To Server and then connect to the server, however in Finder > Network - that computer doesn't show up. I have my Rev C 2.1ghz iMac G5 as our base station at home, a G4 iBook and 2 PC's with wireless cards.
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Up until today, all clients were able to connect to the server using the Connect To Server option in the Finder's go menu by typing in afp://server.domain.com. Starting today, a large number of 10.5.8 machines (but NOT all of them) are unable to connect. It just tries for a while and then times out. They are able to connect fine using the server's local IP address.
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I was just looking for a silmilar utility.
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I'm having trouble with some 'Connect to Server' workflows I'm trying to create.
I can connect to my LaCie NAS disk with the usual Finder > Go > Connect to Server & entering 10.0.0.2/nasdisk or afp://10.0.0.2/nasdisk (nasdisk is the name of the share on the LaCie disk) & these work fine.
For my MacBook Pro I can enter 10.0.0.8/Jono/Desktop & this will connect to the MacBook Pro & open up the Desktop folder of my user account.
So in a workflow for the LaCie NAS disk I'm creating I have:
'Get Specified Servers' action. In there I've tried entering '10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.2/nasdisk, afp://10.0.0.2, afp://10.0.0.2/nasdisk' & afp://EDmini.local.'
Followed by the 'Connect to Servers' action.
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In the 'Get Specified Servers' part I enter the IP address, or 10.0.0.8/Jono/Desktop & it won't connect.
If I click on the dropdown option (after clicking on the + sign in the Get Specified Servers part of the action). I can select My Network > MacBook Pro which will add the afp://MacBook-Pro.local. address.
This will connect but I have to click on the confirmation window when my username & password are already autofilled in (So I just have to click on the Connect button & then select the user account or Macintosh HD).
But I want to be able to connect & automatically open the location I want without having to click any confirmation dialogues or having to choose the user account or disk.
Can anyone help?

Jono H wrote:
If I click on the dropdown option (after clicking on the + sign in the Get Specified Servers part of the action). I can select My Network > MacBook Pro which will add the afp://MacBook-Pro.local. address.
This will connect but I have to click on the confirmation window when my username & password are already autofilled in (So I just have to click on the Connect button & then select the user account or Macintosh HD).
But I want to be able to connect & automatically open the location I want without having to click any confirmation dialogues or having to choose the user account or disk.
Bumping this as I'm looking for the answer,too.

FTP Browsing via 'Connect to Server'

Hello,
I am trying to mount my website via FTP through the 'Connect to server' option in the Go menu. I am using the syntax < <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="ftp://">ftp://userid:[email protected] > in the Address bar. The server mounts properly, but I am not allowed to modify anything. It gives me a permissions error. I know I am using the right login information, and I know it's the main administrative account. Is there a setting I'm missing?
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Cory,
Yes, unfortunately, when you connect from the Finder to an FTP site, you can view directories and download files, but you cannot PUT files or delete files. This functionality is not supported by Apple Finder.
You must use a 3rd party application as you have discovered.
Interestingly, an article was posted last week on Apple's "Hot News" RSS feed:
feed://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss
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http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/ftp.html
Hmm.
Jim

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