afp NOT auto connect

[blockproject]

i have found lot of references but non quite as simple and annoying as mine. i am a freelance architect who works in and out of several firms; as such i have alias links to various places on various clients servers.

the problem is when i am at home (and dont need to connect to a client network) and simply browse to the project directory that holds my project files (and the alias) it tries to connect to the server link.

if i simply browse to the directory, i have to wait for the connection to fail ("cancel" apparently doesn't cancel anything, at least from what i can tell as the spinning wheel of death keeps on trucking) before i can start working, even then it may re-try, i cant change my view options, check directory size, etc....

thanks,
-b

 

[Satcomer]

Well then you must make several Network accounts for when you are at those different locations. Open System Preferences->Network and at the top of the pane make several new custom "Locations" so you can set up different networking services for each individual place you go to.

Now is this directory a folder on your Mac or a folder on one of the servers in the mired of places you network to? I ask because it sounds as if you are saving document when you are on a domain and are not having them to your internal folders.

 

[blockproject]

thanks but, c'mon now... i have specific network locations/network accounts, etc... the problem is i am browsing on my local drive at home to a local file on my local hard drive. the alias (to a location on my clients server) is but one file in the list of files in that directory (on my local drive)... all i have to do is browse to the directory that is holding the alias and it tries to connect... and parallels tries to connect to the server before i even get to the parent directory... but at least it errors and i can move on, the mac keeps trying, even after i hit 'cancel'

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[Satcomer]

The image shows you attempting to connect to an Alias (the Mac version of a Windows shortcut). When you click on an Alias it will take you back to where the original is at, in your case it will go back to the server.

 

[blockproject]

i am NOT trying to connect to the alias... at NO point do i actually click the alias (in fact i dont usually have to 'click' anything... opening my project directory where the alias is held tries to connect to the server) at no point do i click on the alias... i browse to the vacaville folder and before i can do anything, 'it' trys to connect to the alias. I am NOT clicking the alias... that's the problem, it immediately tries to connect to the alias WITHOUT clicking on anything...

 

[DeltaMac]

I suspect that you have a folder action, or some script runs that causes the connect attempt, with the presence of that alias triggering the connect.
If you need to keep that alias, then - why not move that alias out of that folder? Or, you could create another folder in that folder, then drag the alias to that folder. Just get it to a different folder level.

 

[blockproject]

something to that effect is what i'm going to have to do... but those are the 'then dont do that if it hurts" solution - so i really wish i didn't have to do that...

those alias (and i have several) are links to my clients directories that are for my use... so it's nice to be able to go back-and-forth without having a couple of extra clicks to deal with... i'm not sure if a folder action (i'm not even terribly sure what a folder action is...) gets attached (when you create an alias on a network, then copy it to your local machine) i really wish someone could get to the bottom of this... or is there a better way to make an alias to a specific directory to someone else's server

mind you, some of my clients have 5 years of projects to scroll through and trees and trees of directories to slide through, so me getting to where i need quickly is imperative...

thanks for everyone's help so far... like i said i showed the problem (he was able to sit with my computer and see it happen) to a mac technician at my local independent mac tech-place (not 'the mac store') and the guy was stumped and basically told me its not supposed to do that... and i'm sorry it is.

also in the last day or two since this post i've upgraded from tiger to snow leopard and it's still doing it and now parallels is doing it also... except windows tries to connect to the server when i go the clients main parent directory, so it's like this quantum mechanics thing, the computer knows i'm three clicks away, so "i'll just connect now..."