macOS Logging in to a fileserver

[Sydde]

From the program perspective, I have discovered, resolved and listed a server, my user has seen it in the list and wants to access a share. Do I use Directory Services (10.4 SDK) to do this?

Note that this operation should be independent of Finder: some weirdos like me turn Finder off most of the time in favor of something else, such as Path Finder.

 

[mrbash]

If you are connecting to AFP shares you can use Directory Service silently to mount the necessary share and access your files. The 10.6.2 api is available at: http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/Networking/

For SMB you will probably get an authentication window when you use the CIFS API, even when you get the password from the keychain.

I'm not sure about NFS though.

 

[Sydde]

The 10.6 API is not available to me. I was hoping for some sort of OS abstraction layer because I am just lazy, but oh well.