mac frustration

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Dear lazyweb,


Where'd my network mount go?

I mounted a remote directory (my home dir on my linux computer) the normal way from the Finder: network -> network-name -> computer-name -> share-name.

The share appeared in the normal spot in the Finder window, on the left-hand side, under the other mounted drives.

I figured, "hey, I want this to stick around and not disappear when I put the computer to sleep." so I figured I could make an alias to it by dragging that to the desktop.

Nope. When I did that, it made a "whoosh" sound and disappeared in a ball of smoke. (in experimenting, dragging any of the disks or mounts from the left-hand side of the Finder off the Finder window will make them look like a ball of smoke also).

I tried to mount it again; following the normal procedure; but when I chose the share name, I got a dialog: "The alias X could not be opened, because the original item could not be found."
Options: delete alias, fix alias, OK. "fix alias" doesn't do it automatically, it gives me a directory tree to find the original item, whatever it is supposed to be. OK acts like cancel.

So I made like a linux guy and opened a terminal and looked at the mounts (with 'mount'). It's still mounted, in Volumes/ . I can still get to it from the command line.

I can also get to it by mounting a different share from the remote computer, opening its parent directory, and finding it there.

I tried unmounting both shares, then remounting both. The one I "lost" doesn't show up in the left-hand window of the Finder any more.

[Edit: and there's nothing in the trash that matches.]

So, somehow I deleted a symbolic link's destination which resolves to the mount-point. Any idea how to recreate that?

Thanks...