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<blockquote data-quote="bnz" data-source="post: 617176" data-attributes="member: 49756"><p>**I removed a lot of text that i had written while i was trying to find the problem. The problem was really simple though, so i streamlined everything in order to avoid confusion**</p><p></p><p>I had this exact same problem as sleepyhollow and after endless hours of using instruments and dtruss, i have finally found a solution for me and i am posting it as it may help others plagued by this anomaly as well. </p><p></p><p>First of all, the apple knowledgebase article didn't solve anything for me </p><p>(<a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307256)" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307256)</a>. The "URLMount (from old Mac)" folder in /System/Library/Filesystems did not exist while a folder "URLMount" existed. In the URLMount directory, there are a couple of so called URLMount plugins. URLMount is a private framework from apple that (i guess) handles url parsing and calling the appropriate mount commands, e.g. mount_webdav, mount_smbfs etc.</p><p></p><p>It turned out the reason for the non-working "Connect to Server ..." dialog was a bad entry in /System/Library/Filesystems. Back when i had Tiger running, i installed an ext2 module in order to be able to mount external drives that i also used with Linux. I am not sure whether this was ever working, but it left a bad symlink pointing to some ext2.fs module in /System/Library/Filesystems (ext2.fs -> ../../../Library/Filesystems/ext2.fs) once i removed it, logged out, and logged in again, everything was healed. It seems the URLMount plugin scanner cannot handle bad symlinks and then just denies to work.</p><p></p><p>I guess i am not the only one who installed the ext2 module and then updated to Leopard, so it is quite possible that others have this problem as well and i hope this helps somebody to fix the issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bnz, post: 617176, member: 49756"] **I removed a lot of text that i had written while i was trying to find the problem. The problem was really simple though, so i streamlined everything in order to avoid confusion** I had this exact same problem as sleepyhollow and after endless hours of using instruments and dtruss, i have finally found a solution for me and i am posting it as it may help others plagued by this anomaly as well. First of all, the apple knowledgebase article didn't solve anything for me ([url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307256)[/url]. The "URLMount (from old Mac)" folder in /System/Library/Filesystems did not exist while a folder "URLMount" existed. In the URLMount directory, there are a couple of so called URLMount plugins. URLMount is a private framework from apple that (i guess) handles url parsing and calling the appropriate mount commands, e.g. mount_webdav, mount_smbfs etc. It turned out the reason for the non-working "Connect to Server ..." dialog was a bad entry in /System/Library/Filesystems. Back when i had Tiger running, i installed an ext2 module in order to be able to mount external drives that i also used with Linux. I am not sure whether this was ever working, but it left a bad symlink pointing to some ext2.fs module in /System/Library/Filesystems (ext2.fs -> ../../../Library/Filesystems/ext2.fs) once i removed it, logged out, and logged in again, everything was healed. It seems the URLMount plugin scanner cannot handle bad symlinks and then just denies to work. I guess i am not the only one who installed the ext2 module and then updated to Leopard, so it is quite possible that others have this problem as well and i hope this helps somebody to fix the issue. [/QUOTE]
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