[Ti] Panther network functionality

[Barry Lyden]

I would think that you could also use AppleScript to mount a series of
drives and set the script to run automatically at login time. Does anyone
have experience doing this?


> From: John Crane <jbcrane at cranedigital.com>
> Reply-To: PowerBook G4 Titanium List <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:43:24 -0700
> To: PowerBook G4 Titanium List <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [Ti] Panther network functionality
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I've been a Mac user for many, many years, and an OSX user since it was
> first released.
> In '99 I finally bought a WinTel machine for some specific 3D work and
> since have increased my network with multiple WinTel machines-but use
> my 17" PowerBook/20" Cinema Display for 99.9% of my non-3D tasks (as
> well as some 3D tasks now). As a result, I use the PowerBook as a "hub"
> if you will (not a server), to monitor activity on my network, which
> was the original vision when buying this computer-and it works well.
> 
> 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?
> 
> John B. Crane
> Principal
> CraneDigital, LLC
> Visual Communications for All Media
> jbcrane at cranedigital.com
> +1 (970) 229-1462
> www.cranedigital.com
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