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I'm getting this annoying message every minutes.


Previously there is another MacBook that used to be listed under my "Shared". Now that particullar MacBook is not around anymore. Not a problem!

But when I am finish upgrading my MacBook into OSX Lion ...it start to show this message.


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It will show it again and again every minutes if I click "OK" button.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 1:11 AM

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Dec 28, 2011 6:16 AM in response to Dlamija

Apple removed SAMBA (SMB) and AFP support for Lion [http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1186081,1191038].


After upgrading to Lion, I encountered the same issue. In Finder, hit CMD+K to bring up the Connect to Server options. Your computer is likely trying to establish connections with SMB or AFP servers in the history list.


I no longer need to connect to the servers that I had in my history, so I removed them, and the pop-up errors have stopped. If that doesnt work for you, or if you need to connect to the servers, here is a workaround that I found on the issue: http://frankleng.me/2011/07/21/connect-to-a-freenas-samba-or-afp-share-on-lion-w orkaround/

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