Network Drive Reconnect after Network reconnects?

I use hamachi to mount a network drive on my home server (which I back up files to, etc.) on my OSX 10.8.1 MBP.
The problem is that I'm constantly having to connect / reconnect to the wireless network at work (just because of how much I move around between locations at work), which means I'm constantly having issues crop up due to the fact that even though I don't have a wireless connection yet my computer is trying to reconnect to the network drive.
So the basic series of events should be:
Establish wireless connection -> establish connection to server -> mount drive
Is there any way to make sure that this happens in this order rather than the computer trying to do it all at once and throwing me errors?
If that's not possible, is there at least a way to have the computer periodically check and try to mount the network drive (right now, after the first attempt if it can't it gives up, says something along the line of "can't find network location" and I have to manually mount it)?
I already have it set up so that the drive mounts automatically upon login (Accounts -> Login Items, etc.), but that seems to only apply after a system reboot.
thanks

I find it best to NOT Automount them at all, but have a quick & easy Dynamic Mount system by first deleting those Login Items, then...
What I would do is, once you get the Icons mounted on the Desktop, is to drag them them to the Dock between Applications & Trash, or if you have many and just want a neat Popup Menu, then create a New Folder on the Desktop, drag those Mounted Icons to that Folder, (once there you can even rename them to whatever you wish), then drag that Folder to the Dock between Applications & Trash.
And of course I'd have 3 New Locations in Locations...
One called Hpme, one called Work, and one called All Off...
http://gnarlodious.com/Computer/MacOsx/WiFi

Similar Messages

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.

Network drive mount after sleep

I move a lot between 2 locations. One is my home office (Airport Internet connection) and my office where I connect via cable LAN connection. At office I mount several network drives defined in my Login Items.
The problem is, when I move from my home to the office with a sleeping computer it will not mount the network drives after waking up.
Is there a way to tell my mac to try mounting the drives after waking up?
Thanks.
Tonden
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I find it best to NOT Automount them at all, but have a quick & easy Dynamic Mount system by first deleting those Login Items, then...
What I would do is, once you get the Icons mounted on the Desktop, is to drag them them to the Dock between Applications & Trash, or if you have many and just want a neat Popup Menu, then create a New Folder on the Desktop, drag those Mounted Icons to that Folder, (once there you can even rename them to whatever you wish), then drag that Folder to the Dock between Applications & Trash.
And of course I'd have 3 New Locations in Locations...
One called Hpme, one called Work, and one called All Off...
http://gnarlodious.com/Computer/MacOsx/WiFi

Late 2010 iMac running 10.9.2 started waking up to the main login prompt screen after coming out of what should be `sleep'. I then have to relog in to my account and network drives have to become reconnected.

This has started quite recently and it appears as if there is no difference if either I have instigated `sleep' (option + cmd + eject keys) or if sleep has started after its time-out period. I then have to wait for my 2 network attached drives to reconnect! It's as if a restart has occured. I've reset the PRAM and done a verify disk (SSD) and repaired permissions but to no avail. Any help/suggestions even cures much appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, see how many of these you can answer...
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

Skype drops connection and cannot reconnect after network change

Whenever I switch between wifi and cable or if I enable my VPN, the skype connection drops and does not reconnect. The problem is not the VPN though because when on VPN I can Quit Skype, and reopen it and then it will connect. The same applies when switching between wifi and cable. Having to quit and restart skype everytime I switch really sucks, its supposed to be more "rugged" i would think.

Besed wrote:
techfreak, many words, but nothing to say about the issue and solution. With all respect.
Guys tell you that when they quit Skype and start it again, it connects well! It means nothing to do with local IT configuration. The problem started few months ago. There is a proxy configuration for VPN defined in Skype settings and it always worked fine, switching connection accordingly to the network. Now it loses connection when we switch between VPN and regular network and vice versa. The Skype restart is required each time to restore connection and it is REALY annoying.
If you claimed it worked differently before what changed on your end? Does it behave differently in an older version of Skype (harder to test since they're discontinuing older versions)? Most people who connect to a VPN use a VPN client to do so like the Windows PPTP VPN, Cisco VPN client, etc.. People use varying VPN servers and VPN client versions and they can behave differently. If users have a Proxy server they define that in the Proxy configuration. I've personally never attempted authenticating to a VPN server using the Skype's proxy configuration in connection settings. Split-tunneling is one setting that affects how traffic is handled and can produce a different result. I wish I could tell you there is one solution to your problem. If you determine the process differed in a earlier release, it would be helpful to post the last release it behaved in the fashion you are accustomed to. A contact of mine uses a VPN connection and toggles it on and off especially when we have bandwidth related issue. That does disrupt his Skype connection momentarily but he hasn't had to ever completely exit Skype. However he relies on the VPN client and does not place that authentication information in the proxy configuration.

Mount network drive outside home network

I have two usb external hard drives connected to my airport base station.
I would like to know how to access these drives when I am outside my home network.
I already have a dyndns account setup that I can use to access my public folder.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

I hope this article helps:
http://knol.google.com/k/anonymous/how-to-share-disks-over-wan-for-apple/15hj80w 9xa614/2#

Adobe files missing from network drive after editing...

Problem started around June 1st. PDF files are shared on the network drive. After I edit one of the forms and resave it, the networked computers can no longer see the file listed on the network drive. Only the hosting computer still sees them. Also, if I resave one of the files as a new name, it will reappear on the network. Any ideas? Adobe Reader 11.0.03

Yes, the problem is still continuing. However, after looking into as much of it as I can, I can confirm something that r.p.b_ started stumbling on. The files are deleted IF AND ONLY IF a user is using the built-in Windows 7 disc burning utility AND is dragging
and dropping the files to the drive from a network share; this doesn't happen locally. If you watch what happens in the native folder, the files are literally scrubbed from the drive as they are processed and added to the image. However, if you Right Click
on the files and copy them, then Right Click->Paste onto the drive, they remain. (The keyboard shortcuts also worked.) Also, 3rd party disc burning utilities function they way the should. (In other words, they don't delete the files.)
My speculation is that there's a bug in the coding that sees the network share as a temporary buffer file while the image is being prepared. Then, as the files are processed in what ever way is needed, the "temporary buffer" is being deleted. The result:
lost files on a network share. But, this is just speculation.

Lightroom has trouble reading RAW files on my network drive ("The file appears to be unsupported or

Hey guys, I currently run LR5 on Mac OSX. I've had my RAWs on an external HDD and have smart previews built for those files. Recently, I upgraded to a new router, the ASUS RT-N65U, and plugged in my WD My Passport Ultra HDD (FAT32 filesystem) into to. Now I've put my RAWs on the network drive, and verified via MD5 checksums that the files are being read correctly (albeit rather slowly) from the network drive.
However, whenever I try to view one of the photos on the network drive, Lightroom complains, "The file appears to be unsupported or damaged". I've verified via MD5 that the files are not damaged. Does anyone know how I can get LR to be happy with the files on my network drive?
(Bonus question: how do I make my network drive faster?)
Thanks!

Got RAWs from a D7000 and D600, LR v5.2 [922700].
Oddly things are working now... I ejectected the network drive in Finder and reconnected to my router. Lightroom no longer has problems viewing the photos, even after I closed my laptop and reopenned it. I think the problem might occur when my laptop goes to sleep for a long time and I reconnect. Will repoert back when I try that.
I'm using an external HDD attached to my router. The reason I don't plug the external HDD to my laptop directly is I don't want to keep doing it every time I want to access my photos, and my laptop only has limited disk capacity since it's an SSD.

Running CS4 Adobe Photoshop/Premiere Pro on a network drive.

I work in IT Management and I ran into a problem with running Photoshop and Premiere Pro on a network drive. When I run the CS4 Premiere Pro I get this message on startup:
Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down. We will attempt to save your current project.
Photoshop will bring up this message:
This application has failed to start because SPROF32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
However, this error can be bypassed and Photoshop will work like normal from then on.
After looking into it our department figured out that the problem the program had was that it was running on a network drive rather than a local drive. When we ran the program on the computer's local drive these errors didn't show up at all and the programs ran flawlessly. After looking at these errors and the overall problem, does anybody know what needs to be done to have these programs run on a Network Drive?

After looking into it our department figured out that the problem the program had was that it was running on a network drive rather than a local drive. When we ran the program on the computer's local drive these errors didn't show up at all and the programs ran flawlessly. After looking at these errors and the overall problem, does anybody know what needs to be done to have these programs run on a Network Drive?
Unfortunately, your first sentence is the answer. Few programs in the Production suite run from a network drive, and need full Administrative log-in.
Good luck,
Hunt

How do use Time Machine to back up to my network drive?

I have been dealing with this issue for days. When I had bought my MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago I figured Id try and back it up to my 1.5tb Western Digital HD that's plugged into the USB port on my router. I Have connected to it through finder and can access it fine however my main point in getting to it is to back up my MacBook with Time Machine over the air to the external HD. I have researched and tried many tricks such as running codes in finder to create a "sparsebundle" using the code " hdiutil create -size 100g -fs HFS+J -volname "Time Machine" COMPUTERNAME_XXXXXXXXXXXX.sparsebundle " in Terminal. I was able to succeed in creating one but my problem comes when I want to transfer it to the network drive. I use the code " rsync -aE COMPUTERNAME_XXXXXXXXXXXX.sparsebundle /Volumes/NETWORKDRIVE/ ". However I get error codes such as "file could not be transferred (23)" and "no file or directory (2)". Also before I did all of these steps I made sure to make network drives discoverable in Time Machine by running the code " defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 " in Terminal. However without using the trick that I keep getting errors with Time Machine gets error message 45 when attempting to back up to the Network Drive straight after making the Drive discoverable. I know Apple niched Time Machine back ups on network drives after or toward the end of Leopard and thats why it is so hard to do it now but I was hoping someone can aid me in my never ending problem?

Hi Barney
What format is the drive on the router? It has to be HFS+ (Extended, journaled).
Sorry Barney, that's not correct in this context. The user must create an HFS+ sparse bundle and then upload it to the network drive. The network drive will be formatted as its formatted.
I also believe it has to be an Apple Airport Extreme router.
Again, that is not the case. I am successfully using Time Machine to an Iomega network drive for the last 12 months. No issues at all.
However, you are making your backup completely unreliable.
There may be an element of truth to this, however, I have used the "Star Wars" interface to recover individual files directly. If I should need to perform a larger recovery and for some reason I can't get the usual access through Apple software, I have established that I can directly access the sparse bundle on the drive and mount it on the computer. Once there, I can just copy files directly from it. The sparse bundle folder structure makes it easy to get the latest version of every file with a couple of mouse drags. This means that I will always be able to get access to my backups.
Apple nixed it because they couldn't get it to work reliably. I imagine they only support that sort of thing on their own Time Capsule because they can control the wireless transmission and error checking (and they sold TCs specifically for that purpose).
I don't know why Apple nixed it - I've had zero problems with this configuration and it is by far the most sensible way to use Time Machine. It seems completely pointless to have a portable MacBook and then have to physically connect a drive to it permanently for backup purposes.
I've only had personal experience with the Iomega drive - maybe it only works with a limited number of manufacturers?
Bob
Message was edited by: Bob Lang1

Imac won't sleep when network drive is mounted

Is there a way to put imac to sleep when network drive is mounted. It goes to sleep when the drive is mounted. The display goes to sleep but not the system.
One more thing.....Is there a way to keep a network drive mounted after restarting?
24" imac Mac OS X (10.4.8) Bootcamp w/ xp pro

Hi!
I figured out what the issue was, finally. After playing around, I noticed that my InDesign Fonts folder, had "alias" links to some fonts that resided on that shared drive. As soon as I deleted all the ones that where aliases, the error went away. Hopefully this helps someone in the future.
Rafa.

Word and Excel hang "downloading" file from network drive - copy file to be able to open it

Word or Excel hang trying to open files on a network drive maybe after an untidy close.
Symptoms: pick the file from a pinned entry on recent list or even direct from File!Open... or by double clicking on the file from file explorer. Word/Excel show in the middle of the status line a comment "Downloading:filename "
a progress bar, that shows no progress, and a white cross on a red circle to close. Some minutes later may Excel/Word say could not open filename.
I have removed any temporary copies of the file prefixed with the ~. However there are no documents shown in any document recovery pane.
If I rename the original file the problem is still there.
I can only clear the problem by working on a copy of the file. It works with either a new name of if the copy is used to replace the original file.
It seems file explorer's "copy" is clearing something within the file that is causing this problem.
I have seen the same issue with both Excel and Word documents in native Office 2010 format.
Is there a better way to clear this issue?
Thanks

Hi,
It doesn't hang/crash, does it?
If you could provide the exact error message, it would be preferred to determine the cause.
You can also try the steps below to modify the registry, as mentioned in this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ba5114e0-98dd-4b44-a078-373df8899048/word-2007-issue-slow-opening-files?forum=word
Note your 12.0 represents Office 2007, 14.0 is for Office 2010.
Important
This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the
registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry,
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-the-registry
Word
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.14\Shell\Open\Command
Rename Subkey “Command” to “Old_Command”
Rename Key “ddeexec” to “Old_ddeexec”
Using FileType Manager change .xls from Word.Sheet.8 to Word.Sheet.14 In the Open Command append “%1”
.docx In the Open Command append “%1”
Excel
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Document.14\Shell\Open\Command
Rename Subkey “Command” to “Old_Command”
Rename Key “ddeexec” to “Old_ddeexec”
Using FileType Manager change .xls from Excel.Sheet.8 to Excel.Sheet.14 In the Open Command append “%1”
.xlsx In the Open Command append “%1”
If the issue persists, you can also read this KB below and let me know if it is helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313937/en-us
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Anybody having trouble with InDesign CS2 documents on a network drive?

I just set up my Airport network at home (Airport Extreme base station, external hard drive plugged into the USB port, iMac G5 plugged into one of the Ethernet ports) and have run into a peculiar problem. When working on my iMac (connected vie ethernet) I open an Adobe InDesign CS2 document from the USB network drive. After a minute or so InDesign tells me something has gone wrong and it is shutting down. I immediately re-launch InDesign and it does its auto-recovery and immediately shuts down again. If I re-launch again and it asks if I want to begin auto recovery it immediately shuts down again. Only by telling it "no" to auto revoery can I break the cycle and let InDesign launch normally. However, if I then go to the file I was working on and attempt to open it, InDesign shuts down. I know that InDesign creates a temporary Lock file when you open a document. My guess is that somehow the lock file is getting corrupted and preventing InDesign from opening this file. InDesign documents are the only file types thus affected, Illustrator and Photoshop are fine. I have a second hard drive connected via Firewire and have never had any problems with files from it. My question is, what would be causing the problem on my network drive connectd to the base station? Am I the only one out there with this problem?
iMac 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 20 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I just set up my Airport network at home (Airport Extreme base station, external hard drive plugged into the USB port, iMac G5 plugged into one of the Ethernet ports) and have run into a peculiar problem. When working on my iMac (connected vie ethernet) I open an Adobe InDesign CS2 document from the USB network drive. After a minute or so InDesign tells me something has gone wrong and it is shutting down. I immediately re-launch InDesign and it does its auto-recovery and immediately shuts down again. If I re-launch again and it asks if I want to begin auto recovery it immediately shuts down again. Only by telling it "no" to auto revoery can I break the cycle and let InDesign launch normally. However, if I then go to the file I was working on and attempt to open it, InDesign shuts down. I know that InDesign creates a temporary Lock file when you open a document. My guess is that somehow the lock file is getting corrupted and preventing InDesign from opening this file. InDesign documents are the only file types thus affected, Illustrator and Photoshop are fine. I have a second hard drive connected via Firewire and have never had any problems with files from it. My question is, what would be causing the problem on my network drive connectd to the base station? Am I the only one out there with this problem?
iMac 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 20 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Iphone and appletv sync photos using itunes from a Network Drive; times out

I have a brand new Imac and a synology network drive. The network drive contains all my photos.
When I sync my various idevices (appletv, iphone, ipad) using itunes and specify a folder on the network drive. after a few hours or next day, when I plug a device to sync with itunes, i get a msg saying the folder can't be found.
It appears that the network connection times out.
How can I stop this from happenning ?

Hi!
could it be related to https://discussions.apple.com/message/13376559?searchText=Sync%20Photos%20from%2 0Synol#13376559 ?
Did you resolve your problem in the mean time?

Problems setting up Time Machine using a network drive

I am having problems setting up TimeMachine on my Mac Mini to work with a WD MyBookLive network drive. The network drive came with a TimeMachineBackup shared folder preconfigured. When I first connected the drive to the router and turned on TimeMachine, the TimeMachineBackups appeared as an option when I did "Select Backup Disk" from TimeMachine Preferences.
I managed to successfully connect to the drive and start a backup running. However the backup hit a problem and I started getting an error that the "disk was already in use". I therefore tried to remove the disk to try and start again. Hoever when I now do go into "Select Backup Disk" from TimeMachine Preferences the shared folder on the drive no longer apperas and I only get the option to serach for an Time Capsule.
If I go into Finder, the MyBookLive shows up as a connected Device with all its shared folders showing (including the TimeMachineBackup folder) and my Mac is definitely connected to the drive. How do I get the Drive & TimeCapsuleBackup shared folder to reappear in TimeMachine Preferences so that I can select it as the destination for my backups?

Check around the forum, you are one of very very many. It doesn't matter what WD say, do you see a Certified by Apple notice on it?
Go here, most authoritative site about Time Machine you can find. http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Specific info on Network Drives are here http://pondini.org/TM/2.html
Post back here and ask for Pondini if you need more.
You can also read some tales of woe here

Network Drive Reconnect after Network reconnects?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for