You know how you can have an icon in your toolbar that brings up your iDisk with no password or "connect to server with the Go menu" business? Well I wanted to have the same functionality on my TiBook connecting to my other systems around the house.
Originally I went through the basic "Go" menu method and made sure that my password is automatically accessed on my Keychain. Then once the server was up, I dragged its icon to the toolbar. The problem was that it reverted to a question mark whenever not connected. Since I reduced my toolbar to icon only, when there are several servers there's no way to tell which is which.
So what I did was make an alias of the mounted server and drag that alias somewhere generic (I stuck it in the general Documents folder at the top level). Then just drag the alias up to the toolbar and, presto! You have the server's original icon retained even after disconnection. Clicking on the icon skips all the other connection windows including password because I put it on the keychain. So in one click I have whichever drive on my other computers pop right up.
One thing is that because you're clicking on the alias, it brings up the drive's contents as a descendent of the alias under whatever directory you are storing them in (ie. in column view). The drive also appears in its usual place at the top of the hierarchy and functions as normal.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020321215802617