Re: auto mounting shares

ray <datasmog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
specifically on waking from sleep.
With a Windows network, live shares are always available in explorer
when you boot up a pc. You don't have to Go-Connect to Server every
time.

I know I can achieve this on a Mac by putting the shares into Login
Items but that falls over when the machine sleeps and the connection is
lost, or when the machine containing the share is switched off and on
again.

Is there any way to keep a share connection in Finder in a similar way
to Windows and have it available as long as the share is on.

The Buffalo LinkStation is the share I'm trying to keep alive.

Which network filesystem does the LinkStation use? You can automount NFS
and AFP shares on demand. I don't think it works for SMB ("Windows file
sharing") on 10.4 though.

http://www.bombich.com/mactips/automount.html

If a share in unavailable for a while (say, you're away from your
network), the automount daemon can take a while to find it again. You
can prod it into action again with this command in Terminal (don't type
the $):

$ sudo kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/automount.pid`


Tim
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