Automatically connect mounted drive as guest

I have mounted my NAS network drive to my Mac but I don't have a registered user account. I'm just a guest so each time I reboot a window for each mounted drive pops up asking for a password. Any way I can tell it to automatically connect as guest?

Hi Jolly Giant
Ever since the Airport Extreme 802.11n exists i used wireless HD storage, and lately used it as Time Machine backup. Never had (fingers crossed) any issues, the Airport Setup is quite handy to setup access and password for USB connected HD on the AP Extreme.
Regards
Y.

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