How to Remove Ghost Share Points After a Drive Disconnect

I am running 10.5 Server on a Mac Mini with an external FireWire drive. I changed the Share Point location of the Network User Accounts two different times during setup but forgot to shut down the FireWire drive properly before I did this. I now have two ghost Volumes that i can't seem to get rid of. I see these in both Network/Servers as well as the Workgroup Manager available sharepoints for user home folders eg

In Network/Server/ i have

server.example.com/...../New Home Folder Name
server.example.com/...../Old Home Folder Name (no longer exists)
server.local/..../Old Home Folder Name (no longer exists)

In the Account User Home tab of Workgroup Manager I also see an available sharepoint for server.example.com/..../Old Home Folder Name. This share no longer exists.


To clear the ghost share points i have tried rebooting and restarting AFP but they still exist.


Any suggestions to clear these much appreciated.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jul 12, 2009 11:39 AM

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Jul 14, 2009 6:59 AM in response to Andbrowny

Andbrowny, thanks for the note. I did in fact try that with no luck. I have seen this issue referenced for USB external drives not being properly shut down in standard OS X installs and the recommended solution is always to look for hidden folders in the /Volume folder. Haven't seen any hidden references in my local machine or the server however.

Any other ideas appreciated.

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How to Remove Ghost Share Points After a Drive Disconnect

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