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Hi,
I have a strange issue that I was hoping someone could shed some light on.
I am using my MBP on a windows network at my new work place.
I have connected to a number of shared drives on the server (that you would map a drive and assign a letter in windows) as volumes on the Mac.
I have then created an alias to those and given the alias a letter (everyone at the company refers to each as a letter because of windows) ie the 'X' drive. Just makes it easier to know it as that.
So I have:
//server1/test - alias created is called (X: on server1)
//server2/folder - alias created is called (W: on server2)
//server1/another - alias created is called (Y: on server1)
Problem is there are 2 different servers with the same shared folder name and this causes an issue:
//server1/folder - alias created is called (W: on server1)
//server2/folder - alias created is called (Z: on server1)
I want these to have 2 separate alias's but if I create the connection to the first one, all is fine. I then create a connection to the second and the other one I have just created now points to the new one and I don't have a connection to the older one. If I create 2 different alias's, both alias's will point to the most recent connection out of the two.
This means everytime I need to connect to the 'other' server that isn't currently connected, I will have to manually set up the connection and will loose the other one.
Sorry for the long post but it's a weird problem and I want to get it fixed as it isn't helping my case for staying on my Mac and being forced over to Windows.
I haven't got much info but one is Windows Server 2003 and other is 2008. I am on 10.6
I have a strange issue that I was hoping someone could shed some light on.
I am using my MBP on a windows network at my new work place.
I have connected to a number of shared drives on the server (that you would map a drive and assign a letter in windows) as volumes on the Mac.
I have then created an alias to those and given the alias a letter (everyone at the company refers to each as a letter because of windows) ie the 'X' drive. Just makes it easier to know it as that.
So I have:
//server1/test - alias created is called (X: on server1)
//server2/folder - alias created is called (W: on server2)
//server1/another - alias created is called (Y: on server1)
Problem is there are 2 different servers with the same shared folder name and this causes an issue:
//server1/folder - alias created is called (W: on server1)
//server2/folder - alias created is called (Z: on server1)
I want these to have 2 separate alias's but if I create the connection to the first one, all is fine. I then create a connection to the second and the other one I have just created now points to the new one and I don't have a connection to the older one. If I create 2 different alias's, both alias's will point to the most recent connection out of the two.
This means everytime I need to connect to the 'other' server that isn't currently connected, I will have to manually set up the connection and will loose the other one.
Sorry for the long post but it's a weird problem and I want to get it fixed as it isn't helping my case for staying on my Mac and being forced over to Windows.
I haven't got much info but one is Windows Server 2003 and other is 2008. I am on 10.6