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KevinTJH

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I've got a setup where I have a Windows Server OS mini computer that powers on when my Mac is turned on, and it acts as my NAS drive across multiple computers.
Obviously, my Mac system is a lot more powerful and boots up much quicker.
Since the mini computer needs to actually boot before the storage drives are active, I get the pop up message on my Mac "There was a problem connecting to the serve "xxxx". " at every startup.

Is there any way to disable or hide this pop-up error message permanently?

My mini computer literally boots up less than 10 seconds slower than my Mac so I really don't need to be reminded of the problem connecting all the time, if that makes sense!

Thanks in advance.
 
Simple fix is to simply manually power on the Windows machine before starting the Mac.
 
That actually won't work for my current setup.
A custom SATA cable was made for this setup that shares the same power from the Mac power supply. So the tiny Windows machine only powers on automatically when the Mac is turned on.

Is there anything that can be done on CMD?
 
Not my area of expertise but possibly you could disable the network auto mount by the OS. There might be a way to run a script which after an x second delay mounts the shares as a user login item.
 
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