I have a network drive connected to my PC and Mac through a router. They used to both find the drive fine. Now, for reasons I haven't figured out the Mac cannot make a connection via AFP://. It tries, it looks, brings up connect to server password window (so it finds it and gets the name at least) then it says mount failed once the password is entered.
Before this morning it would hang at that last stage for absolutely AGES and most of the time I gave up and restarted the Mac rather than have an unclosable window floating around.
I'm resorting to connecting via smb:// and it feels very slow and get wierd filesystem issues like being unable to capitalise a folder name as the folder "already exists with that name". The folder then appears twice in the finder with both "stuff" and "Stuff" and identical contents. But the PC sees them as one, and has no issues connecting as usual.
It's a Lacie external, formatted to EXT3. I've tried another Mac which then had the same issue as mine. Any ideas appreciated!
Before this morning it would hang at that last stage for absolutely AGES and most of the time I gave up and restarted the Mac rather than have an unclosable window floating around.
I'm resorting to connecting via smb:// and it feels very slow and get wierd filesystem issues like being unable to capitalise a folder name as the folder "already exists with that name". The folder then appears twice in the finder with both "stuff" and "Stuff" and identical contents. But the PC sees them as one, and has no issues connecting as usual.
It's a Lacie external, formatted to EXT3. I've tried another Mac which then had the same issue as mine. Any ideas appreciated!
