Re: Bit of a rant about Leopard's Finder

On 2008-05-30 15:03:33 +0100, me18@xxxxxxxxxxx (zoara) said:

Ian Piper <ianpiper@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I am getting a bit fed up of Leopard's Finder behaviour. I had it
nicely sorted out in Tiger: I had an Automator script that connected my
network drives at login, and they all nicely appeared under my disk
name in the Finder sidebar. That's all gone pear-shaped in Leopard. For
a start, my Automator script doesn't work reliably anymore. Second,
even when I connect, the drive doesn't appear under my Devices list (I
saw a kludge whereby you turn on the Finder Preference to show network
drives on the desktop, then drag them into the devices list, then turn
off the Finder option again. That doesn't work reproducibly either. So
to get to my network shares I now have to click on the server name in
the Places list *every time*, and navigate my tortuous way to the share.

Unless I've misunderstood, you can add your network disks to the Login
Items list and they will then mount at login. Shame they don't re-mount
on wake if you've been off-network, but there you go.

As an aside, I do wish that you could re-order the Login Items list.

-zoara-



Ah yes, the Login Items list. This would be the source of my other major Leopard Server woe at the moment. There seems to be a (well-documented) problem whereby if you are doing server-based management of your Leopard clients, the Login Items list is disabled. Clients can't change their Login Items. This is not a question of them not having permission to do this, BTW - it seems to be related to authentication against an Open Directory server.

Leopard Server really is starting to look a bit of a lemon. I upgraded from Tiger Server (with which I was pretty happy overall) to get access to all these enhanced features, and the product is not delivering. I may have to wipe Leopard and go back to Tiger at this rate, at least until Leopard gets beyond beta quality.

:-(


Ian.
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