Hi out there,

although i have been trying to find a solution in various forums i didn´t get back the Finder´s "normal" behaviour. Until four days ago everything worked perfectly. The Finder connected to my Windows-Shares without any problems. But suddenly i don´t get a connection. The Finder-Windows still shows the various Windows-machines, i.e. the correct names of different machines, but does not go any further.
Finder keeps telling me,

"Connection failed". (Connect As... doesn´t seem to give any reaction...)

Also using the apple-key+K shortcut does not work anymore.

"The text entered does not appear to be a recognized URL format. URLs should bein with afp://, smb:// etc."

is the message that keeps popping up trying this way.


Using the terminal and the manual way to mount a share is working fine - so I´m suspecting somethings wrong within the Finder, not overall with Samba or the XP-Box.

Unfortunately I´m just a really newbie to MacOS - my Unix/Linux knowledge is marginally and so I only tried to look up for problems caused by Samba, because I really don´t have a clue where I can start a search related to the Finder.

So, in the end I´m posting this - hoping that someone maybe had similar problems and got a solution.


So long and regards
bajoran

I have the Same Problem, trying to connect to a Windows XP maschine or the Samba Server from my Ubuntu machine, i Hope we're both just to stupid to use OSX and its not a Bug in Hackintosh

Maybe that helps. Look at
I am unable to connect to shared computers on my network
Greetz

Catw3azle

The fix works, thanks alot.

If you try to connect to another Mac/PC or Linux on your local network using leo4allv2.iso release, it won't work.
So basically, using 'Connect to Server' command of Finder will pop a windows where you can enter something similar to this:

afp:192.168.1.10/
smb:192.168.1.20/

These are valid URLs but Finder would complain that they are not.
To fix it follow these steps:

1- Open the terminal application (Under Applications->Utilities)
2- Enter:

sudo rm /System/Library/Filesystems/afpfs.fs
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext /System/Library/Filesystems/afpfs.fs

(Taken from http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...2989&st=580)

I just thought I'd share this for new users

I'm also having the same problem with the Connection Failed.  Connect As... error.

It was working yesterday.  Now its not  I didn't do anything.

I tried to go to the link that Catw3azle gave by I can't find it there.

Anyone can share the actual fix?

Please.

Thank you.

@keplenk: Try what t3hi3x wrote. It is basically the same what in my link was.

Just wanted to say I had the same problem and this fix worked fine for me.

sudo rm /System/Library/Filesystems/afpfs.fs
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext /System/Library/Filesystems/afpfs.fs

Thank you.

I want to say a big Thank you for the terminal tip, I was having a big issue with sharing files in my network, now is fixed and working great!

What was the fix? The link doesn't go to that page anymore.

Try what t3hi3x wrote. It is basically the same what in my link was.

Greetz

Catw3azle