Mounting network drive

Okay, I am posing this request to figure out how to do the following:
I have a network drive that I want to use to store my itunes library. I need to mount the drive so that my computer sees it when it boots up and can access the files. I also want to avoid having the computer open a finder window at start up. Can anyone please give me a step by step of how to do this? I am new to Macs so more simple steps would be better.

Once the drive is mounted and it is showing on your desktop open system preferences-->accounts--> your user account
click the login items tab
drag n drop the mounted volume onto the login items window.
If the network volume requires a user name and password then be sure to add this to your keychain then you wont be prompted to enter the password at login.

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Mount network drives

Hi,
How can I create a script that will connect to a windows server with a username and password and mount network drives on my desktop, and how do I set this script to automatically run when I login?

Hey guys. I'm glad I found this post. I'm trying for the same result. I currently work at a school in which every teacher has a computer that connects to the local network by signing in with a username and password. However, my computer has fried and they can't get me a new one until... well... whenever. I've brought my MacBook Pro in and have connected to the internet which is great but I need to access a network (H:) drive in order to update progress reports and report cards.
I don't know much and the IT guy is impossible to reach and hasn't returned any emails. I just need to connect to that one folder. I was assuming and ftp or and smb would do the trick but I have no idea what server I would need to try and access through the finder, applescript, or terminal. I did an ipconfig on another teachers computer and got a few ip's as well as the folder's location on the network 'server_4\folder' (H:) if that helps. I've tried connected by ftp through the finder to all of the ip's and have gotten an error saying that I can't connect. I have also did a whatsmyip.com search for my root ip address and have tried the same approach. For some reason, it connects by says my username and password were incorrect.
Well that's about everything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Fast User Switching with Mounted Network Drive?

I have a headless G4 Cube running 10.5.8 with a 2TB firewire drive plugged in for storage accessable to any of my macs here at home. I can access it fine with my 2 desktops over ethernet and wirelessly. Recently we decided to consolidate our 2 desktops into one using the muliple users feature. Seems to work fine, and both accounts can access the shared drive. They are logging in with the cube's admin credentials, and the shared drive is set to ignore permissions. I have the drive set to mount on login with a startup item in the system login items prefs. As long as I logout before switching users, everything is good.
The problem arises with Fast User Switching which we'd love to be able to use. I can't figure out how to connect to the drive in one account without the 2nd account then seeing it as a volume without proper permissions, then that account creates a new volume mount for it (which doesn't work with iTunes properly and seems to cause other wierd issues).
Example: So say 'user1' logs in, mounts the drive 'Jukebox'. everything seems OK so far. 'Jukebox' is on the desktop and iTunes finds the music. Now I fast user switch to 'user2' and there is a 'Jukebox' on the desktop with the red minus icon indicating I don't have permissions to access it. If I then browse the network and mount the drive, I end up with ANOTHER 'Jukebox' on the desktop. BUT iTunes doesn't see it properly. If I look in the /Volumes/ folder with the Terminal, I see a mountpoint for 'Jukebox' (with the owner of 'user1' group 'staff') and now a new mountpoint called 'Jukebox-1' (with the owner of 'user2' group 'staff').
It seems when you mount a AFP drive, it creates the Volume with the current user and staff group, but switching to another user then can't access that when it sees it in the /Volumes folder. You try to mount again and it creates a NEW mountpoint, names it with a '-1' at the end and you can use that (but iTunes cant).
So... how does one use a shared drive that you want on BOTH users desktops with Fast User Switching turned on? Is there a way to have the drive mounted BEFORE either user logs in, such that it will be seen as any other local drive (which doesn't have the issue)??
Or is there some other way I can attach to the network volume in each account on login so both have access to music and videos with full permissions?
I'm really stumped here after 2 hrs of googling, searching here and trying things.
TIA

I've not had any luck with the suggestions in the link either.
Here's two other approaches I've tried and failed with:
1. Creating a new share point on the cube itself so that one user can mount it as a different volume. Then the issue is that I still don't have a volume named "Jukebox" available to each user when switching. I DO have access now to the data from both accounts, but under 2 different mount points (volume names) and the xml file for iTunes is hard coded with the path for each mp3 including the "Jukebox" volume name... so no go.
2. Tried figuring out a way I could script a mounting of the share with the terminal thinking I could then run that shell script at startup. Can't seem to get the sytax right. If I create a directory in /Volumes and mount and afp share to it, it takes on the ownership of root/wheel which I can't access in the finder and can't seem to change.
BUT I'll keep playing with both these ideas a bit... the first one might be overcome with a bit of logic and the 2nd if I can get the syntax right to mount the share with afp_mount and give it the correct ownership/permissions such that when a user logs in she/he sees the volume on the desktop and has full r/w access to it.
thanks again. if you offhand know the syntax for that, let me know

Mounting Network Drives Without Windows Opening

I have 3-4 Networked drives that automount for my users when they login, but whenever they login it opens up a window for each of the mounted drives. Any way to prevent this? I've tried marking "hide" in system preferences for them in login items, but that made no difference.

I am trying to run a computer on which to host installers for a schools network. The computer that i have all the installers on is partitioned into 3 parts: a system partition, a partition for the installer programs, and a partition for filemaker serving. I need to be able to connect to the computer through the network and access the installers. I don't want people logging on to access the home directory of the user account that they are using to connect to the install volume. I would really like to be able to tell it when people log on from another spot on the network to just mount the installer partition nothing else. I am aware that os 10 defaultly mounts just the home directory when you access a name on that computer from another local.
I hope this is enough information.

Mounting network drives in the left pane of the finder...

in tiger, i was able to mount a network drive and have it show up in the left pane of the finder. now, when i connect to a network drive (clicking "go", "connect to server", and typing the IP address). it opens up a new finder window with the contents of the network drive, however, it doesn't show up in the finder pane...
also, the "network" icon in the left pane is gone. is there a way to bring this back?

Does this work for you?! I can't get this to appear, least i have the icon on the desktop now but having it in the finder is what I really want,
Some very good features in Leopard but they really do seem to have messed around with things unnecessarily, custom firewall changes, network mounts appearing etc etc

Problem mounting network drive after upgrading router firmware

Hi guys,
It's been a while since I last posted a question of my own here, but I'm at my wits end. As I may have mentioned, I live in France, and my ISP is Free (no, not free, Free...). I've got what they call a "box" here, i.e. a sort of super-modem that will let you connect to the Internet via xDSL (and soon VDSL2), receive hundreds of TV channels, read BluRay discs, store files (videos, music, photos, what have you) on a integrated NAS, place and receive phone calls, whether via a landline (DECT) or, since recently, through a femtocell.
All in all, the package is impressive and works flawlessly. But...
(Of course, there had to be a "but)
... Yesterday, I let my "box" (it's called a Freebox Revolution, or Freebox V6--for Version 6--by the way) upgrade its firmware, reboot as it always does in such circumstances, and since that, the NAS won't mount in the Finder the way it used to under the Shared left pane.
Now, every time I reboot my Mac, I have to open a browser windows and type "smb://mafreebox.freebox.fr" in order mount the NAS in the Finder. I've saved the credentials (login, no password) in the keychain, hoping it would help, but it doesn't. I've got a PC running Windows 8.1 Preview at the moment, and created a shortcut to the NAS on the Desktop. Guess what? I double-click on the shortcut, and sure enough, I can access the content of the NAS from Windows, but not from the Mac.
I must add that I haven't changed anything on the Mac since, or before, upgrading the "box" firmware.
Any ideas?

OK, you must think I'm going bananas, but my issue is gone... For now...
Seriously, what do you guys think about this problem with network drives mounting or not, depending on, I don't know, the weather, maybe?

Mounting network drive failing when launched with "crontab"...

Greetings!
Here's my problem:
I have a cron job (domain user) that launch a perl script.
Somewhere in the script, I mount a network drive like this: "/sbin/mount_smbfs //user:pw@machine/path"
I get the following error: mount_smbfs: server connection failed: broken pipe.
-If I ssh to the mac, manually execute the Perl script, no problem, the drive is mounted and I am happy. But it constantly fails if I am not logged in.
As a workaround, I tried to make my user automatically logged in when the Mac restart. But what do you know? Not working with my (domain) user. But it works fine with any other local users.
Any ideas?

Post to the Unix forum under OS X Technologies.

All mounted network drives disconnect after sleep

10.4, airport, powerbook.
All network (SMB) drives connect fine manually. They also reconnect after after login (modified login items). However, they will not persist after sleep.
After this powerbook sleeps, ALL network drives are dropped and have to be manually reconnected. Why?
I've seen this question asked about 20 times out here, but never answered.

Thanks for the reply, Tim.
However - this is a serious SMB functionality issue. Just with OS-X. Not even Linux will misbehave like this.
I have 8 (eight) drives that I need mounted - all over the network. I simply cannot fiddle with manual remounts because they are NFS or SMB drive mounts and OSX freaks out. It takes me about 5 minutes to unmount all the drives, and as long to reconnect them. Which I have to do whenever this little Powerbook sleeps. Your solution of a manual disconnect/reconnect is absurd. Multiply this by the # of Apples we have, and you see what I mean.
We have 15 Windows laptops, and as many desktops that keep ALL of these drives mounted regardless of sleep, power cycle etc. All machines except the Apples.
If this bug needs escalation, let's do it. I've seen countless gripes about this issue and NO resolution. This is NOT a feature, or a requirement for user manual drive unmount intervention. It's a BUG.

Auto-mount network drive?

Hi all,
I have a Mac Pro running Leopard and a 1TB Buffalo Terastation on my home network. I am able to access with the Terastation from the Mac by going though Finder. To do so, I have to click on the name of the TS on the left side of Finder and then click on the "share" folder in the next column. This mounts the network share as /volumes/share.
This is OK but I currently have my iTunes library on the Buffalo TS. However, if my iPod is already docked before I power up the Mac, iTunes can't find its library because the share isn't mounted. I have to manually make Leopard mount the share by the procedure in the above paragraph.
Is there a way I can get the Mac to auto-mount the network share like I can under Windows or Linux? Since MacOS X is Linux based, can I use the Linux method for auto-mount the share by editing a fstab file?
Any info will be appreciated. I've tried searching and have tried a few tips but haven't got it working yet.
Thanks,
Steven

I'm not sure if this solution works or not, to be honest.
I've added my mounted sharepoint to my login items aswell as editing the file you described:
MacProBU:/MacProBU x url net, automounted,url==afp://admin:admin@"AFP on Tolton2TB.afpovertcp.tcp.local/MacProBU" 0 0
MacProBU is the name of the Sharepoint and drive, once it is mounted.
AFP on Tolton2TB.afpovertcp.tcp.local/MacProBU is the location of my sharepoint when I 'Get Info' on my mounted drive.
My Network drive now seems to mount and be ready to use at login, however a Finder window now opens every time, showing my the contents of the Share.
Not too much of a problem, but a bit annoying.
I've read tons of articles about auto-mounting shares, AFP and SMB etc drives
All seem a bit mis-matched with no idea what's going on. And a lot are complaining about the removal of NetInfo in leopard.

Mounting Network Drive Upon Startup

Is it possible to mount a network drive upon startup so that my auto backup program can see and backup to it?
If so, how is this setup?
Thanks,
James

Try doing i manually instead of using sharepoints tool.
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/automount.html
Ive always doen it this way and had success wheher wired or wireless... unless ofcourse the network jsut wasnt avaialble.

How to mount Network drives on log-on

Hi
I'm trying to implement some Macs in a large network.
We work against file servers, storing all the files we use on the servers.
There are multiple servers with multiple shared folders in each.
On the windows work stations, we click "Map network drive", Choose the server and folder and check "Re-connect on startup".
How can I do this in OSX.
Here is what I need:
*On log on the mac should mount each network share, so that it is accessible in finder like any other drive.
*It needs to have the same drive-letter each time, as applications may need to reference the files.
*It needs to log on using the current user's username and password (the passwords may change, so no putting them in scripts)
*Should not pop up one finder window pr. drive when you log on (some "solutions" do this)
Our servers can act as both smb and windows server.
I'm sure apple has a great solution for this, and it is probably easy, it's just me comming from windows and could not find it.
Hope my question was clear and that somebody can help.

That should work. You could try deleting the passwords in Keychain associated with it and try it again.
Another route: Create Applescript:
Select the network drive and get info on it. Copy the server address. Open up Applescript Editor in the Utilities folder and create a new script. Type in mount volume, add space, "paste server address within quotations", and save as application to your documents. Run it from within applescript editor to verify it works. When it asks for a passwork, save it in Keychain.
Under system preferences/accounts/login items, click the + sign to add and select the saved application.

How to mount network drive on boot up

I'd like to mount a network drive on my OS X v10.6 system during the *boot sequence* so that the drive is available to Time Machine to write its backups there. I can mount the drive manually and know how to add it to an user account's loginn items so that it gets mounted when that user logs in. But I want it always mounted regardless of which user is logged in or even if no user is logged in. That way TM can run whenever it needs to.
So how can I mount the network drive during boot up?
The network drive is on a machine running OS X v10.5.
This related thread was my original question in the Time Machine forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2807393&tstart=0
Message was edited by: NikD

not sure it will work for you but you could try this:
if you are comfortable with AppleScript, you could edit this script to suit your situation:
try
mount volume "afp://<devicename>.local/<volumename>" as user name "<accountname>" with password "<accountpassword>"
end try
this script just places the drive's icon on the desktop.
save it as an application and add that to the account's login items.
credit for the script goes to Tesserax.

Mounting network drives at startup?

I know this could be done in 10.4, but I can't figure it out in 10.5. I am wanting to have a couple network drives connect at login and mount to the desktop. Currently I have to go into the shared computers and drives via the finder, then connact as. Is there a way to get these to mount at startup?

You can also create Automator applications that launch at login. Take a look at this tutorial:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=144914
(the post at 08-20-2005, 10:13 PM has the answer I used)
Since I have a Storage Area Network, shared drives and a cluster, I have to make sure that each node (computer) can see the shared storage, the cluster controller and the place where the source file for rendering is located. So, instead of worrying about keeping it all configured, I just made a Workgroup, assigned Read/Write privileges for any admin user, turned on Apple Talk, and made a script to mount all the local drives (ComputerName.local) for all computers, except for the local one.
Since managed, render services can also be flaky, I also wrote a script that resets the services at login (in case the IP changes or what ever).
It works like a charm, and better yet, I can see it running at login.
Cheers,
Jeff W.

Mounting networked drive via terminal

Hello
I ordered an SSD for my macbook pro yesterday, which I was planning on installing when it got here today. I use a shared folder on a windows PC for time machine, and after backing up over the network for the last time last night I decided to pop my os x disk in to make sure that I knew how to restore once I had the new hard drive in.
Well I was able to connect to my wireless network, but when I choose restore using time machine, the button "connect to network drive" is greyed.
I think I need to mount the drive via the terminal, but I've been unable to do that. In OSX i was connecting to smb://192.168.1.102 and mounting the "MacBook Pro Time Machine" share(I since added a share simply named "mbptm" to avoid spaces. I opened a terminal, and made a directory /Volumes/TimeMachine, this seemed to work. I then tried:
# mount -t smb smb://192.168.1.102/mbptm /Volumes/TimeMachine
This gives the error:
mount: exec /System/Library/Filesystems/smb.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_smb for /Volumes/TimeMachine: No such file or directory
I tried with afp instead of smb (which I dont think will work because its an NTFS windows drive) and got:
AFPMountURL returned error -1069, errono is -1069
If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it. I don't have an external hard drive handy. The computer name of the windows PC is MEDIACENTER-PC, and the share gives access to "Everyone", so no username/password should be required

I think i've found a clever way to circumvent this problem.
What if i repartition my original hard drive into three. leave one partition for my current stuff, a second partition for the time machine back up, and a third partition as a bootable image of my OSX install DVD. Then I will temporarily disconnect my dvd drive and hook up the SSD and the HDD simultaneously, boot using the OSX install partition, and restore the time machine image to the SSD...
Does anyone see a problem with that? (I realize this isn't the correct forum for that anymore)

Mounting Network Drives

I have created a workflow that includes "Get Specified Servers" connectng to: "afp://SS-SERVER.local." followed by another action to "Connect to Servers". This works beautifully until I'm prompted with the various drives I wish to mount.
I can of course select the drives and mount them, but does anyone know how I might "instruct" the Automator to completed the tasks of; Clicking "Connect", selecting the Drives I wish to mount, and then clicking "OK"?
I read a few threads in the "Apple Script" discussion but I'm not too familiar with apple script. Can anyone help?

I haven't tried connecting to a server in a long while, but I'm trying to test this out. Hopefully someone else can shed some more light for you than I can.
I was under the impression you can specify the drive, or perhaps the folder, within the server address by appending a "/" and the name of it. If so, then that would allow you set the drive to connect to within the address.
One tip that might help you figure this out is to not try to emulate your physical actions, for example don't try to get Automator to click this or click that in dialogs. Focus on results.
So, in this case, what you need is to have the workflow connect to a server and mount the drive. That's it. There should be nothing to do with clicking this or that because Automator wouldn't be going through dialogs since the actions for Automator allow it to perform its tasks. That is, when you run a workflow, you typically won't see dialogs because Automator isn't a human being that needs dialogs to interface with the computer. Dialogs and windows are for humans. Just a tip that might help you with other workflows.
I think the only trouble you might have is if you need a user name and password to connect, but that might be handled in the background with your keychain (i.e. Keychain Access) so you wouldn't have to worry about that after you've connected to a server at least once. I need to find a server to test it out, but hopefully someone else with some recent experience will reply.

Mounting network drive

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