Comments on: How-To: Auto-Connect to Windows Shares from OS X

By: Jason Burns

Jason Burns — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:15:03 +0000

@Martin: No problem, glad I could help!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:06:26 +0000

Jason! Thank you sooooo much for this tip! I’ve been looking for such a thing for ages.

Happy holidays and a happy new year!

By: Arnan

Arnan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:23:25 +0000

mount -t afp afp://user:pass@hostname/volume_to_be_mounted /Volumes/mount_point

I would use:
mount – afp afp://arnan:mypassword@storage.local/Arnan /Volumes/arnan

Should do the trick, where mount_point would be the name shown on the desktop.

By: Jason Burns

Jason Burns — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:28:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip Arnan, why don’t you leave a more detailed comment telling our friends how to do that?

By: Arnan

Arnan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:35:54 +0000

That’s nice and all but while this script runs applescript blocks all finder actions and input.

Thus if your login procedure is slow, say it takes 30 seconds before the remote locations authorizes the mount, finder cannot do a thing and seems hung or stalled.

This can be very annoying.

In this case, like automounting shares i would much rather run a shell script a-la terminal as a startup item since you don’t actively use terminal in normal use.

The ending result is the same.