AFP auto mount on ReadyNAS startup (OSX 10.5.5)

First let''s clarify terms - just to be sure we're both using them consistently

A "share" - in this instance - refers exclusively to your NAS and is defined as a network accessible folder on the NAS which you control the contents of and access rights to.

A "mount point" is a folder on your Mac which, once the share is mounted by the Mac, is where you see the contents of the NAS share

So if we assume you are trying to, for example, mount a share called "music" such that it is mounted at the mount point "/mnt/music" (ie "music" being a subfolder of folder "mnt", which is in the root of your OSX filesystem)

Create parent folder of mount point /mnt:

mkdir /mnt

Create mount point:

mkdir /mnt/music

or

cd /mnt
mkdir music

Mount share:

mount -t afp "afp://nas-xx-xx-xx (AFP)._afpovertcp._tcp.local/music" /mnt/music

Notes:

- the above is exactly what finder does when you mount a share via the finder GUI - but it uses the parent folder /Volumes instead of /mnt
- parent folder /mnt was only an example - you can use virtually any name, or even none - it's up to you. Your key error has been not creating the mount point correctly (
- the share name abov must be in quotes because of the space character in the name (between nas-xx-xx-xx and (AFP) ), else you get an error as previously reported