Hidden shares/mount points

Question

Apologies for double-posting this, but I just realized this forum is more suited for this question.
I'm having a very strange problem in Lion running on a Mac Mini. I'm using Automount Maker to mount 8 different network shares at login and 2 of them are exhibiting weird behavior. All the shares except those 2 show up in the Finder. When I look in /Volumes using the Finder, the 2 mount points are not visible, but if I use Terminal to ls /Volumes, the mount points are visible in the list in Terminal. I can cd to those mount points and navigate the files, so the shares are definitely mounted, just invisible to the Finder. As a result, some scripts that run on the computer that reference /Volumes/sharename are failing.
I've tried changing the visibility of these mount points with "chflags hidden" but that didn't fix it.
I tested mounting the share without using Automount Maker (just the normal Apple+K method) and the share still mounts invisible. This time however, when the Finder pops open to show me the share after mounting it, the icon for the share in the Finder is dimmed. I've never seen this behavior before.

Answer 1

You dont need timbuktu to control OSX server screen sharing is now built in.
The most secure way to do what you want it to use ssh tunneling. You dont need vpn. with ssh you could run screen sharing and apple filesharing through the ssh tunnel.
By default remote login is enabled in osx server. Being a server if configured correctly it will have a static ip address.
So configure your office networks router to forward tcp port 22 from the internet to the ip address of your server.
Then you need an account on the server, maybe you are already the admin account.
open your terminal the following commands will setup a tunnel for file sharing and screen sharing.
screen sharing tunnel
ssh user@server -L 5901:localhost:5900
replace server with the actual public IP address of your office internet connection. replace user with the actual account name on the server.
Once logged in open the screen sharing app and use a host name of localhost:5901
for file sharing use
ssh user@server -L 5548:localhost:548
once logged in
press command +K and in the server address use localhost:5548
that is it.