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A caution on network-based aliases and the sidebar
Authored by: lieb on Thu, Nov 8 2007 at 6:17PM PST

I discovered this some time ago. I work with several web servers that use the same name for their document directory. So I named the folders in my Finder sidebar with the server names. Boy was I surprised when my web server coulnd't find its documents anymore. On, and these servers are Linux mounted with SMB so its not just a Mac to Mac thing.
Paul