How to stop Finder trying to reconnect an unavailable network share?

Question

My Mac laptop was connected to my home network, to copy files from my XP desktop. Now the laptop is on the road, but every time I open Finder, I get a message box telling me that it can't get to that network share anymore. The network share isn't listed in anywhere that I can see.

How do I tell it that the network is gone? How do I avoid this happening next time?

The message is this:

Connection failed
The server [...] may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.

Answer 1

Ok, apparently I had accidentally created an alias to the share, and was inadvertently cursoring over it.