Keep share mounted

Question

I am planning on getting a mac mini for my home theater setup. however, after playing around with my MacBook Pro I have found that when the machine goes to sleep, any mounted shares are ejected.
I am looking for a script to do this:
If the share is mounted, the script quits, if not, then it mounts the share. I guess this would have to run every second or so, assuming the CPU doesn't become taxed. Any idea on how to do this? I had tried this with no luck:
on idle
tell application "Finder"
if disk "Videoshare" exists then
quit me
end if
end tell
return 1
end idle
tell application "Finder"
activate
open location "smb://servername/videoshare"
end tell
It continues to try and connect to the server, even if its already mounted. Any ideas?

Answer 1

A simple way to test for sleep is set your script to continually store the system time, and investigate further when it detects a jump.
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">property last_date : current date
on idle
set new_date to current date
if new_date - last_date > 10 then
tell application "Finder"
if not (disk "Videoshare" exists) then
open location "smb://servername/videoshare"
end if
end tell
end if
set last_date to new_date
return 5
end idle</pre>You could also use a unix daemon I'm aware of. Note that since you're using this with an Intel processor, it will be more reliably saved as the "Application Bundle" (Universal) format, with the "stay-open" option checked of course.