How do i automount a network share? I don't want finder popping up every time i reboot my iMac.
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Auto mount network share
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You could create a workflow with Automator. Just create an application with it, add ‘Get Specified Servers’ and ‘Connect to Servers’ to the area and add the URLs of your network shares. If authentication is required, you could add this to the URLs. Afterwards you just put the application somewhere safe and add it as a login item in System Preferences.
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Mount the share. Open System Preferences/Users & Groups, go to your user's "Login Items", and drag the share from the Finder sidebar to your Login Items.
Yes, but doing that always pops up a finder window for each share at startup, even if you click the hide option. This worked correctly in one point update a long time ago (10.5.8 I think), but has been broken ever since the following point update.
If you find an answer- please post it. I've been looking for a way to do that since I switched to Macs back in 2007.
I just use an AppleScript, that I compile into an Application, and then launch that from the "login items." This is the script:
Code:
-- Define username
property username : "yourusername"
-- Define shares
property mapdrive1 : "smb://" & username & "@yourserver/Share1"
property mapdrive2 : "smb://" & username & "@yourserver/Share2"
property mapdrive3 : "smb://" & username & "@yourserver/Share3"
-- Mount Volumes
mount volume mapdrive1
mount volume mapdrive2
mount volume mapdrive3Replace SMB with AFP or NFS if you're using either of those protocols.
I have tried this and it looks like it works well.
When I run the script the dialog box pops up requesting the network drive user password. I have the password saved in my Keychain so all I have to do is press Connect. But is there a way to automatically parse the password through so that's not necessary? I presume it would be a weakness in security because somebody could see the password in my script, but I figure if somebody has access to my Mac's user account I have bigger problems than a visible home network drive password.
EDIT: I think I know what to do, I'm just not sure where to put the quotation marks. I think I want it to look like this:-
Code:
smb://username:password@servername/sharenameI have:-
Code:
-- Define username
property username : "yourusername"
property password : "yourpassword"
-- Define shares
property mapdrive1 : "smb://" & username & ":" & yourpassword & "@yourserver/Share1"
-- Mount Volumes
mount volume mapdrive1EDIT2: But that definitely doesn't work, error message is There was a problem connecting to the server "yourusername"
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What we want to do may no longer be possible. You might want to check out my thread here:- https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rk-volumes-been-deprecated-in-sierra.2000212/
Check out the ControlPlane app (http://www.controlplaneapp.com), it's pretty good. It won't solve pressing Connect but you might find it very useful to trigger automatic mounts (and lots of other stuff besides). I read about it in another thread when I was trying to find a solution to this problem.
Yes, it definitely is. I'm using it now with Sierra to auto mount my network drives (I still have to press Connect though) and run my VPN app. I have set both up only to process when I have my WiFi link up. Sometimes it takes a while for my WiFi to connect after boot and other methods to achieve these two things end up timing out.
I'll probably figure out other cool things to do with it, I only started using it earlier today.
Well...if you still need to hit "connect", I might as well stick with my method of putting the mounts into my login items. I have to close the folder window that pops up when they're mounted, but it's either a click on the close button, or a click on the "connect" button. Still no ideal solution.