Comments on: Mount a Network Drive in OS X On Startup

By: ip changer

ip changer — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:53:23 +0000

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By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:57:51 +0000

I find it annoying that each and every time I'm using my MBP when I'm not home it tells me that it could not find the Network drive. Isn't it possible to have the system mount it whenever it is available and otherwise fail silently?

By: Iconia

Iconia — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:39:55 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:13:54 +0000

Was able to adapt this to the current OS. Thank you.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:44:43 +0000

These instructions are for mounting a drive on LOGIN not STARTUP. I need to mount a shared folder on a Windows server every time my Xserver Reboots without a login. How is that done?

By: borscht@gmail.com

borscht@gmail.com — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:04:58 +0000

Seems to take a bit longer to mount, but no Finder windows. Thanks.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:50:53 +0000

Read the comments from h4voc or richard

By: riz

riz — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:39:00 +0000

I followed the instructions and checked off hide so that the finder window for the mounted window wouldn't show up at every boot. It does not work. It shows up at every boot up. Very annoying. Anyone found a fix for this?

By: DJivor

DJivor — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:45:35 +0000

I'm trying to setup an iTunes server, using a Promise Pegasus 12TB R6 connected via Thunderbolt to Mac Mini , this is then connected to a network via Ethernet and to a iMac and apple TVs

In iTunes on the iMac the Library on the Pegasus is added as a shared library.
I've added iTunes in User account/ Login Items tab, so that iTunes starts as soon as the iMac boots.
Secondly in Login items I've added the mounted Pegasus drive.

When the iMac and iTunes is booted it sometimes does not make the connection the Mac Mini and Pegasus, the result being that iTunes loses its library and requests that you need to locate it Library or set up a new one.

How do I resolve this?
Does the Login order matter in log in items? Is it similar to the BIOS start up order on a Windows Machine?

Any help would be appreciated

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:51:30 +0000

Love it, i modified the script to mount the 4 shares on my Synology DiskStation on login:

tell application "Finder"

delay 0.3

try

mount volume "afp://USER@DiskStation._afpovertcp._tcp.local/music"
mount volume "afp://USER@DiskStation._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Users"
mount volume "afp://USER@DiskStation._afpovertcp._tcp.local/video"
mount volume "afp://USER@DiskStation._afpovertcp._tcp.local/photo"

on error

display dialog "A Problem Occurred" buttons {"OK"} default button 1

end try

end tell

The volume names can be pulled with CMD-I from Finder.