Lately I’ve started reading a very interesting blog. So interesting in fact that i’ve had to dedicate this post to it.

The blog is “An app a day”, a blog by a programmer named Dana Hanna who calls himself the (or a?) Software Jedi.

Dana intends to write an application a day, for 30 days…

You can check this blog out by clicking the link in my blogroll or clicking here if you’re just plain lazy…

Out of the blue I have been receiving the error shown below whenever I tried mounting a samba share in finder:

For some reason the finder stopped being able to mount shares on any machine, anywhere…

The solution to this lies in mounting a share manually through the terminal. It seems that after I had connected to the machine using smbclient I was able to mount shares in the finder again.

Michael:~ michaelskelton$ smbclient //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC/ -U MICHAELSKELTON

Other useful commands I used when diagnosing the issue were: smbmount and smbtree .