Avoid -47 errors with Windows SMB connections

Sep 02, '03 10:24:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you are getting -47 errors when connecting to a Windows machine using an SMB URL, try relaunching the Finder and your shares should appear on your desktop. My suspicion is that the error occurs when the share is mounted, but not visible in the Finder. If the Finder is relaunched, the share appears on the desktop.

I can get up to two connections to a Windows 2000 SMB share. If I disconnect those two connections from Windows, and then try to connect again from the Mac, I will get a -36 error message. If I relaunch the Finder, though, then both shares will appear on the desktop.

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