[Ti] Panther network functionality

[Chris Long]

Once you've mounted the drive, you can make an alias to it, and then I 
believe you can add that to your login items.  On our computer labs, I 
keep the aliases to the shares for different folders for the different 
classes, so that they can quickly get to them.  These are on our 
xServe, so I used afp://user@ip.address in Safari, and then made the 
alias so that it remembered the login I wanted to use.  Safari doesn't 
handle SMB shares that way though.  I have added the SMB share I use 
most often to the keychain, and it always logs me in correctly.  I hope 
that at least gives you some ideas.

Chris Long

On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:43 AM, John Crane wrote:

> However...
> Over the years I've come to depend on Window's "Map Network Drive" 
> option.
> So the question is this: Is there a way to implement these same 
> functions: "Map Network Drive," and "Reconnect at Startup" using 
> Panther? At present it seems cumbersome: I need to go into the finder, 
> click on Network, locate the workgroup directory, then locate the 
> machine within that workgroup. In the forth "pane" (the finder 
> "desktop" being the 1st pane) I get the connect option, SMB/CIFS 
> Filesystem Authentication window, which constantly has the wrong 
> Username entered, and I have to re-type in the password every time 
> despite the fact I ask it to remember it in the keychain.
>
> This is functionality in the Windows environment that doesn't rely on 
> "Server" software, so I'm hoping that Apple, in it's infinite creative 
> superiority, has provided a way to accomplish these same tasks better, 
> faster and of course more elegantly. I'm looking forward to the day I 
> can implement OSX Server, but it won't be today ;-).
> Any suggestions?