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Automatically mount SMB shares on login
Dunno why people are always coming up with new ways to automount smb at startup. It doens't really get any more simple than mounting your smb once, then dragging the icon AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTED DRIVES WINDOW into the Login Items PrefPane. It seems to require the icon at the top of the mounted drives icon as opposed to the icon off the desktop, etc. Seems like the only way that you can actually capture the login info so you don't have to enter it each time is using that icon.
Automatically mount SMB shares on login
BTW - you can also drag that same icon into your Favorites dir and a single click on that will mount your smb. This is also true of WebDAV mounts. This too seems to require the same icon and only seems to work reliably when place in Favorites. Some odd interactions going on behind the scenes with authentication, but as long as it works I'm not worried about it.
Automatically mount SMB shares on use?
Something I've always wanted to be able to do is to mount SMB shares on use. We had this cool automount setup on the BSD boxes at school such that when you changed into a directory it would mount a NFS share.
Automatically mount SMB shares on login
You can also create a short cut/alias to a folder down in the SMB share and if you store your password in Keychain then it just takes to open that alias and the SMB share will mount. This will also work for NFS, and of course AFP. I have not tried FTP but I bet it too would work.
Automatically mount SMB shares on login
Keychain has never EVER worked for me regarding SMB shares. It always demands that I login despite the hundreds of times I asked it to remember it.
The share does not use the same name
At least under 10.3.3 (which is very different from previous versions of the OS) when using the Finder you get you share in
/Volumes/WORKGROUP;MACHINE but using the preference pane it is mounted in /Volumes/machine.name.with.domain.
Morevover, this mounts the share only when you login with the GUI.
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