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Ben Kei

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 30, 2002
204
1
London UK
Hello,

I've had an issue a few times recently where after connection to an SMB share the connecting to server dialogue box with progress bar does not disappear after connection.

It's fine with all our X-Serve share points, just the XP based SMB shares.

I have both a Mac and a PC in front of me at work and often connect to the PC to copy files over etc.. and will sometimes connect to 5 or 6 different shares in a day.
Obviously not ideal to have a 6 connection deep progress bar on my screen.

it doesn't seem to affect the connections at all but is an annoyance.

Any idea what causes this or how I can get rid of the progress bars?

Thanks,
Ben
 

m31uk3

macrumors newbie
Jan 31, 2009
5
0
I also have the same problem...

It doesn't seem to be a constant issue though only every now and then still very annoying though...

The only way I can clear it is to force quit the finder...

Does anyone have an idea as to the specific process the Connect To Server window associates?
 

m31uk3

macrumors newbie
Jan 31, 2009
5
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m31uk3

macrumors newbie
Jan 31, 2009
5
0
I opened up the Console and watched for any hints to this problem...

I found the following error was constant when I could reproduce the progress bar remaining and it closing correctly.

Code:
mount_smbfs: spnego blob2principal error 1

I assume that since the error is the same regardless of the progress bar error it is unrelated...however I can't be sure.

Additional points which might be helpful:

  • The error occurred right after I resumed from SLEEP (Opened my PowerBook)
  • The errors are not reproducible after a Finder Force Quit
  • Mac OS X 10.4.11
  • Connecting to Samba Share on Fedora Linux Distro
  • Share always mounts successfully regardless of Progress Bar completing

Best,
Luke
 
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