Permanent, persistent network mount?

I'm looking to set up a permanent, persistent network mount from my OS X Leopard Mac to my Windows server.
But here's the thing: I don't just want this this to mount on startup/login - that's easy, so I beg you, don't respond with the "drag it to your Startup Items, etc." trick. I want it to exist AT ALL TIMES. On initial login, when the Mac wakes from sleep, after fast user switching, after I haven't accessed the share in three days - ALL THE TIME. In short, God help me, I'd like to find a way to make my Mac behave like my Windows PCs: I want my Mac's network share to behave like a mapped drive in Windows.
I've been looking to do this since I got my new MacBook Pro - it'd be just amazing if someone could show me how to do it. It's maybe the only thing in the OS where I prefer the Windows way of doing things to the Mac - here's hoping I've just missed it.

Scott,
I am in the same situation as you and need to know how to do this just as network drive mapping works in Windows.
I have seen a few scripts but they are short on handling the sleep situation.
I will be watching this thread so if you do find a solution please let me know.
Regards,
Robert

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Got 10.4 Server set up, but can't seem to permanently share folders/volumes across the network (nor is "Network" an option). I only have access to Netinfo/DefaultLocal. Not sure where to start, but here's my questions:
How do I set up a network wide Domain?
How can I get a "Network Mount" option? It's greyed out.
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>How do I set up a network wide Domain?
Turn the server into a Open Directory Master (Server Admin -> Open Directory
Then join the other machines to this domain by running Directory Access on the client and configure the Open Directory option.
>How can I get a "Network Mount" option? It's greyed out.
Where are you looking?
In order to setup mounts you need to first designate one or more share points on the server (directories to share). Use Workgroup Manager to do this.
Then you can mount the directories on the clients. There are several ways of doing that depending on what it is you're trying to achieve.
>Do I have to use LDAP? If I do, can I without DNS?
Should I have DNS running in my network?
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I just completed my Windows 7 Deployment using MDT 2013. I use a Light Touch installation. After completing i log into my computer, everything looks
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How bad is it to have 4 network mounts for home folders?

I am the tech curriculum guy at a middle school and also manage the servers. I am not an expert at all. Learn enough to make it work efficiently. We got a new server (intel). I am in the process of migrating all the users, groups, home folders and data etc. Had some problems so I called Apple, in my discussion with the tech support there (3-4 hours solving problems) one of the techs questioned my setup. Here is what I used to do:
Server one has all the users in workgroup manager. The home folders for the 6th, 7th and 8th graders are on two separate drive bays on server one. Each grade level folder is a network mount. I then have the faculty home folders on a server two. There is also a shared folder called "Stuff" which mounts for all users and has clipart, movies etc. It is basically a read only mount. The faculty home folders are network mounts of their home folders.
I service between 400 and 500 students a day in the lab, it is quite busy, with anywhere from 60 to 90 users logged on at one time. My thinking last year was that if I could spread out the home folders on different drives, the students wouldn't all be hitting the same drive for saves, data etc. So that one drive wouldn't be spinning its brains out to keep everyone going. That is why I have the 4 network mounts for the home folders. One for each grade level (6,7,8) and the faculty.
My new server has three drives, two of them for home folders. The drives are 750 gb each. He (apple tech) suggested I create a folder in each drive, set it as the network mount and within that folder put two sets of home folders. So, then I would only have two network mounts, but retain my four sets of home folders that would be within the network mounts.
I guess my question is, which is better, to have the 4 network mounts with separate home folder locations on 2 different servers, or consolidate the home folders into 2 network mounts on one server.
He said that the more network mounts, the longer it takes to get computers started up.
Any expert advice here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, hope I explained this well enough.
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I don't think the logins take too long, we may wait 30 seconds or so for the students to login. We have had problems when 60 kids leave and 60 more come in, some login and after the username and password are entered, the login begins then locks. The Apple tech guy thought that could be aggravated by the 4 network mounts. I just sort of thought that with students and teachers accessing 4 different hard drives, that it wouldn't tax one drive as much. I agree that a longer login is a small price to pay for faster working speeds.

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I am getting error due to Network mounted path for directory OverLoad it works fine with local path. i have given full permissions on network path and utl_file able to create files but datapump fail with below error messages.
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ORA-39000: bad dump file specification
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