Controlling the display name of mount points in Finder.

You could try creating a custom icon for the remote folder.

http://blog.observationpoint.org/post/35715124002/setting-custom-icon-on-folders -in-mac-os-x-from-the

not sure how or were you would save the resource part of a folder on a windows server. It would start with ._foldername

I do not know how dropbox creates it folders, but some how it created a folder with an altered folder icon which survives being put on a fat32 file system.

mac $ ls -ld Photos/

drwxrwxrwx 1 mac staff 4K Jun 15 13:31 Photos//

mac $ ls -l ._Photos

-rwxrwxrwx 1 mac staff 82B Jun 15 13:31 ._Photos*

mac $ pwd

/Volumes/DOSFAT32

mac $

I understand completely what radman89 means and what he wants to achieve. The way the Finder behaves is simply wrong and NOT standard practice for mounting other filesystems. You should end up with the original mountpoint name and NOT the name of the export. In fact, as an indication of the fact that Apple knows it's wrong, check the command line and you'll find the original mountpoint name still being (correctly) used, as it should. It's the Finder that's at fault. This is Apple just messing us around - so no surprise there. Whatever happened to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.

I haven't found a solution to that as such, but it only seems to occur when using the mount command. If you it set up for automount (in /etc/auto_master or other map) then the mountpoint name is correctly maintained. Unfortunately it does then prevent the use of spaces in the mountpoint name, another failure to get it right. Even the docs simply suggest you can use a space by escaping with a backslash, but that's a lie. Doesn't work. The whole thing is a minefield of poor, shoddy and lazy coding. It's disgraceful.