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Some time ago I mapped a network drive on my Snow Leopard Mac, which was upgraded to Lion. The network drive is not active any more and I receive popups all the time with the error:

There was a problem connecting to the server XXXX.

I have no idea how I configured at the time. I may have included a mount command, in a config file but I don't know any more where I did it.

I reviewed the Preferences/Account/Login items and there is no permanent mapping there.

OSX is updated as Nov 27,2011 and the issue is not related to the upgrade to Lion itself but to a misconfiguration.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

(If you have the opposite problem, here is the link to solve it: Permanently map a network drive on Mac OS X Leopard)

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Can you check Utilities » Console.app for any relevant messages when this happens? There could be tons of ways to do this automatically. – slhck Oct 28 '11 at 16:36
Slhck. Thanks for your reply. I've fund the console plenty of errors and I was able to track down the misbehaving application (crashplan.app) which left behind a lunchd(eamon) script. Thanks again. your reply was insightful. – Flijfi Oct 28 '11 at 20:06
Sure, no problem! It would be best if you could answer the question yourself. There's a button "Answer Your Question" below, just put in what you had to do to solve it! – slhck Oct 28 '11 at 20:07
Sadly I was wrong. After a while messages came back and I receive the popup every few seconds. The console is crowded of messages but I couldn't find any relevant to "mount" or File errors or even with the name of the missing network connection. I'm open to new ideas. Thanks – Flijfi Nov 4 '11 at 11:01
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I had the same problem.

I had Bonjour Mounter installed that kept trying to SMB to the old NAS drive, my issue started when I changed the IP address of my NAS Device and wouldn't quit. After reviewing the console I found out that Bonjour Mounter kept attempting to access the old IP.

The fix, I updated Bonjour Mounter with the new IP address and the issue is gone now. I am not sure what to do if you actually use the Finder >> Go Menu >> "Connect to Server" option to smb://ipaddress/ to your NAS Directly ...

I believe if you install Bonjour Mounter you can view and update and old Servers that you may be connecting to. If you have Bonjour Mounter - go fix the IP address of delete it, if you dont have Bonjour Mounter, Install it and it might actually show you the hidden Server IP your OS is trying to get to and from there you should be able to delete it

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I found after updating from Snow leopard to Lion that FSTAB mounts have now been removed and replaced with automount binaries.

I could not find where or what config file repeatedly mounted my inaccessable nas share.

Every time i "umount" or forced un mount using diskutil e.g. sudo diskutil umount force /Volumes/nas it kept re appearing.

Finally after studying automountd and what Apple decided to do with -static mounts other than fstab, installed server admin tools (apple web site) for Lion and used Apple Directory Utility and under mounts there it was HOW ANNOYING but issue is now resolved. No more hanging or /Volumes/xxxxx

Utility is in /System/Library/CoreServices and you can launch with

Open Directory\ Utility.app

Then drop down mounts

Those more familiar with Unix would type open Dire so that it auto completes the command.

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I found a quicker way to get to the Directory Utility:

  1. Go to System preferences > Users and groups > Login options.
  2. Press the Join button next to network account server.
  3. Press open Directory Utility, then as before go to mounts in the drop down.
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