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MBP attempting to auto-connect to share from Drobo FS outside of network?

I have a Drobo FS and a Macbook Pro connected to my home network. When I take my MBP outside of my network, it seems it still tries to auto-connect to a share on my Drobo FS and I get the "Connection failed" error pop up.

When I select ok, it continuously pops back up every minute or two to the point I have to leave it up and move it to an area on the screen that won't get in the way. This is very annoying to say the least. I can also add that this error pops up everytime I boot the MBP up too, even when I am in my home network. It seems it tries to auto-connect to this share before the Drobo FS is discovered. Once it is discovered a minute or two later, it connects with no error.

I have checked login items and there is nothing on there that is a shortcut or link to anything on the share. I do store all my iTunes library on this share, but do not have iTunes open when this error pops up.

Any idea what might be causing this and a way to fix it?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 14, 2012 3:44 PM

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Dec 11, 2012 6:09 PM in response to borgeano

I can gladly report my own fix to this problem, just in case it helps someone else (even though I seem to be the only one experiencing this phenomenon:).

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that one of the only things I had pointed to the Drobo FS from my laptop was my iTunes library, but didn't even think of this as a possible cause because iTunes was not open (active) when the error would pop up. However, for different reasons, I changed the source for my iTunes library and pointed to an itl file on an external hard drive instead of the Drobo FS and...Voila, no more pop up error, outside my network or when booting up.

I don't know that I understand why having my iTunes library file (itl) pointed toward the Drobo FS caused the laptop to try to autoconnect to it, even when iTunes was not opened, but that's what seemed to cause the problem (at least for me).

Thanks for your help!

MBP attempting to auto-connect to share from Drobo FS outside of network?