[X-Newbies] Automatic mount of AFP shares

[Michael Winter]

On Jun 28, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> We would like to have other shared directories (could also be  
> partitions) on
> the server that users would have access to. We created some, and we  
> can mount
> them (Go - connect to server, etc...)
>
> What we don't get right is that we'd like these AFS shares to mount
> automatically at startup, either on the desktop or in the dock,  
> because lot's
> of users just won't be able to use the connect to server way.

I'll tell you a couple different ways I deal with mounting servers.  
Maybe one will work for you.

First, mount them like you usually do. If you then look in ~/Library/ 
Recent Servers, you'll see a file that was created. Opening that file  
any time will mount the drive, but it does throw up the login prompt  
for user & password. There are a couple things you can do with this  
"file". You can rename it and put it somewhere else (I have a folder  
called "My Servers"). From there, you can select it as a startup  
item, so it will mount the share when logging in (with user/ 
password). You can also put that file anywhere else that's convenient.

Note: Just took a look, and while ~/Library/Recent Servers is present  
in Panther, I'm not seeing it in Tiger. Did it move somewhere else  
that I can't find, or is it gone?

The other method I use is to, again, mount the drive with the folder 
(s) I want to have mounted. Then drag the folder I'm most interested  
in into the Sidebar of a Finder window. The nice thing about this  
method, is it remembers user/password if you told it to while  
connecting. So all I need to do is click on that folder at any time  
and it automatically mounts and shows me what's there (just takes a  
couple extra seconds if the drive isn't already mounted). You can  
also rename the folder in the sidebar (hold down the control button  
while clicking on it). I haven't tried putting the target folder in  
the Dock to see if that works, but I assume it would.

This is all done using the client version of OS X. I would think the  
Server version would have more options, but I can't help you there.

-Mike