Network Volumes Keep Changing Names OSX

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Published on 2010-05-11T16:48:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 16:55 UTC
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It seems everytime I reconnect network volumes, my drives cycle through names like /Volumes/user, /Volumes/user~1, /Volumes/user~2

Is there any way to stop this? I just want the name of a network volume to stay the same so that I don't have to keep re-mapping things when I reconnect the drive.

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