10.4: One way to automount SMB network shares

Under Windows you can easily assign a drive letter to a network share, so that every time you login to your account you will have ready access to it. There appears to be no such equivalent under OS X. (You can include them in your user's Login Items list, but each share in the list will spawn a Finder window when it connects.) I have been digging at the problem for quite some time since I switched to OS X, and I can now give you the solution I found to work the best. It is not trivial, but with the help of this screencast, it should prove rather easy. Method 1: Using Apple Script Fire up Script Editor. Type volume mount "smb://server name/share name" for each share you want to automount. For example, volume mount "smb://nas/mp3 ...
Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:30:02 +0100

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