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lmcgu

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Oct 30, 2005
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Hey all–

I recently purchased a LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini. I purchased it to use with .Mac backup at the house. I have an Airport network. I reformatted the drive to Mac OS X extended using Disk Utility and it seems to be working perfectly. I have been able to successfully back up via USb and Ethernet. In order to mount the drive I have to conncect using command + k and then type in the assigned static ip address. It then mounts the drive on the desktop.

I then experimented with automounting the drive at login using an application called AutomountMaker. It writes a short executable script and then I added the script at login. This works also.

I would like to take this a little further and have the drive mounted only when I connect to a specific wireless network, and then dismount when not connected to that network. I am not sure how to do this. I have read numerous articles and googled the heck out of this topic with no avail. I came across the application NetInfo Manager, but I'm not sure if this is what I should be using or not. Above all, I don't know how to use Netinfo Manager.

Could someone please point me in the right direction or provide me with some suggestions? I do not know how to write applescripts nor do I know if applescripts are what I need. I am at a loss, but I would think that people have encountered this question before.

Thanks to any that can help.

LM
 
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