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AFP auto mount on ReadyNAS startup (OSX 10.5.5)
Hi there Is it possible to get some of the shares automatically mounted, when the NAS ist started up? Or even better as soon as the ReadyNas is visible in the Finder? This would also allow me to conn...
Using Login Items will work fine. A couple of things to know about AFP mounting of shares:
1. Any shares mounted from a host must all be mounted using the same credentials. ie, you can't mount NAS/share-1 as user jsmith and mount NAS/share-2 as guest. You have to mount all those shares as jsmith or guest.
2. The Login Items method of mounting a share can be slow. You could login, get to the Finder, and find that your share still hasn't mounted yet. Bonjour Mounter seems to be faster in this respect.
3. Mounting of shares by multiple users on a single Macintosh is not fast-user-switching friendly. Let's say your iTunes library exists on your NAS and that you have two local users on your Macintosh. When each user mounts NAS/media, there's no guarantee as to what the mount-point will be. Whoever gets there first will get /volumes/media and the second person to mount it will get /volumes/media-1. Consequently, it's difficult to programmatically set a symbolic link from ~/Music/iTunes to the iTunes library on NAS/media/Music/iTunes.
1. Any shares mounted from a host must all be mounted using the same credentials. ie, you can't mount NAS/share-1 as user jsmith and mount NAS/share-2 as guest. You have to mount all those shares as jsmith or guest.
2. The Login Items method of mounting a share can be slow. You could login, get to the Finder, and find that your share still hasn't mounted yet. Bonjour Mounter seems to be faster in this respect.
3. Mounting of shares by multiple users on a single Macintosh is not fast-user-switching friendly. Let's say your iTunes library exists on your NAS and that you have two local users on your Macintosh. When each user mounts NAS/media, there's no guarantee as to what the mount-point will be. Whoever gets there first will get /volumes/media and the second person to mount it will get /volumes/media-1. Consequently, it's difficult to programmatically set a symbolic link from ~/Music/iTunes to the iTunes library on NAS/media/Music/iTunes.
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