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.

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Try doing i manually instead of using sharepoints tool.
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/automount.html
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Inxsible wrote:
Ahh ! I wasn't sure which statement you were refuting.
but this confuses me a little. We normally background DAEMONS to increase boot speed (or atleast one of the reasons). So I assume that when you background it, you run it parallely along with moving ahead in your startup process -- namely starting up other daemons and bringing up the login screen/Display Manager or booting straight to X.
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Hi all,
On every Mac I've owned for the last few years, I dragged the icon of my file server to my Login Items list and the Mac would flawlessly mount the drive.
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I've not had any luck with the suggestions in the link either.
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Create the file
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
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*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.
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That should work. You could try deleting the passwords in Keychain associated with it and try it again.
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Under system preferences/accounts/login items, click the + sign to add and select the saved application.

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OK, you must think I'm going bananas, but my issue is gone... For now...
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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.

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I have a friend who recently converted to Apple and is having some problems. As a long time Mac user I promised him I would help rectify this problem as quick as possible. Upon startup, he has 3 drives, his mac drive, his windows drive, and some random bouncing drive with a picture of the world above it. He is using one of the new imacs and thus far I have not been able to help him get rid of this pesky drive. It will bounce for around 2 minutes and then stop. At that time he is able to login. So what do I need to do to stop this thing from showing up and bouncing for 2 minutes so he can immediately login to either his mac drive or his windows drive. Also on a side note, he gets constant pop-ups from keychain about something. How do I turn all these keychain pop-ups off? I wish I could be more specific, but I work in the circus in China and my friend is Russian and has his whole Mac in Russian. Our communication is limited since I only understand a little Russian and can only be of minimal help. He speaks fine English but translating the Russian error messages to English gets lost in translation. I know this is a lot but any help would be appreciated! Thank you in advance.
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