Disconnect from Server

By default, Leopard client doesn't show mounted servers on the Desktop. You can change this behavior in Finder Preferences, if you'd like to see server volumes on the Desktop again.

Or, you can always locate a mounted server volume in the Computer window (Go > Computer).

The SHARED section of the sidebar displays part of the contents of the Network globe as well as servers with mounted share points. You can disconnect from all mounted share points for a particular server by using the sidebar, too.

--Gerrit

Thanks for the reply. I have a slightly different issue that wasn't quite communicated above.

I've connected to a server and selected "Remember this password in my keychain." I later disconnect from the server. After this, I get two different behaviors in Tiger/Leopard.

In Tiger, when I tried connecting via Go > Connect to Server ... (command-K), I'd get the same connection dialog box with a filled-in password. Thus, if I wanted to reconnect as the same user, I'd hit return, and if I wanted to connect as a new user I could change the user/password.

In Leopard, when I try connecting in the same way, I'm automatically connected as the same user, with the same password. Here's the problem: *there's no option to change users*. Short of deleting the password from my keychain, I'm unable to abort the automatic login.

Is this clearer? I'd like the dialog box to behave as it did in Tiger, remembering the password without automatically assuming that I wouldn't want to change users at some point.

Anyway, if anyone has a solution to this problem, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks,

Dean

+Here's the problem: there's no option to change users+

Check the Computer window (Go > Computer). You probably still have a share point mounted there. What confuses the situation is that Leopard doesn't show server volumes (mounted share points) on the Desktop by default.

--Gerrit

But there are still problems: the disconnect button is not always present in the sidebar, and servers do not always mount on the desktop even when you have Finder preferences set to do so.

In my case, the "server" is a PC with Bonjour installed. So my MacBook sees it and connects to it automatically -- as Guest. When I first start up, the disconnect triangle appears in the sidebar. But if I disconnect and reconnect, it again logs me in automatically as Guest (no chance to authenticate under my user id), and then the disconnect button has vanished from the Finder sidebar.

Could these issues be specific to servers mounted via bonjour?

Message was edited by: Samildanach

Now I understand better some of what's going on. The networking functions are fine; it's the GUI that's misleading me.

As soon as I select a server icon in the "Shared" section of the Finder sidebar, Leopard connects as "Guest" and displays the share points. Select a share point and the shared volume icon mounts on the desktop, and the triangular unmount icon appears next to the share icon in the Finder.

BUT: disconnect from server or share point, and the Finder STILL displays all share points and indicates I am still "Connected as: Guest" . . . but now there is no disconnect triangle.

Further weirdness: If I have a share point mounted, and click "Connect as" (button available in column-view), it unmounts the share, but doesn't launch the "Connect to Server" dialog.

Then, click "Connect as" again to bring up the "Connect to Server" dialog, authenticate as NON-GUEST user to an SMB share, the volume mounts, but the Finder displays "Connected as Guest"!

Even if I connect as a NON-GUEST user to a PC share using SMB in the older way -- CMD-K or "Go > Connect to Server" -- then select the newly-mounted Server icon in the Finder sidebar, the Finder tells me I am -- you "guest" it -- "Connected as Guest."

Interestingly, the Finder displays AFP connections correctly, with actual user names, and a "disconnect" button, under the server icon in the 1st Finder column; SMB connections do not.

So my issues here seem to be confusion created by miscues in the GUI -- the "Connected as Guest" indication before you've actually connected, and after you've disconnected. And for SMB connections, the additional miscues of being told you're connected as guest instead of the user account you've authenticated under, and the curious absence of a "Disconnect" button under the server icon in the 1st Finder column.

I just installed Leopard three days ago. Overall, I love it. I hope this feedback helps Apple refine some minor bumps in the user experience.

Message was edited by: Samildanach

I have this problem to and I turned on all of the items to show on the Desktop and I still auto log in. What keychain item do I delete for now so I am prompted for a password. I do have the server configured in Directory Utility to provide LDAP servers. Could this be a problem?

There is one more thing to think about here, are you using single sign on ? If kerberos is enabled and working on the server, and the client is bound, then you will automatically connect to services as that user. You can go to /System/Library/CoreServices and launch the kerberos app and destroy your ticket. This should allow you to login as another user. You will be prompted for a kerberos ticket password cancel it and then you should get the normal login screen. If this is a big issue for you, you might consider setting afp authentication to standard in the server admin. To do this choose afp in server admin then settings and click the access tab.

No help here -- I'm just looking for an answer to the same question.

On the client under SHARED you should see your server and there will be an eject button to the right of that. Click the eject button and that should work.