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matthutch
Jan 11, 2005, 08:22 AM
Would someone be able to help me, I am trying to get a netowrk drive to mount automatically when i log in.
The drive i am trying to mount is a NTFS formatted drive in a windows box, in another area of the house. The computer I am trying to mount it on is connected to the network via a Airport Extreme Card.
I am thinking it mght be either the fact it is NTFS, or that it is over the WiFi network.
Thanks in advance
northen
Jan 11, 2005, 08:31 AM
If you have fixed IP-adresses, you could make a mounting script and put it in /etc/rc.d/ :) I would recommend you get a book on UNIX-basics before you start playing with that, such as the excellent books from O'Reilly.
That's the UNIX-way of doing it. There are also graphical ways, but I am not sure how to go on about that.
GeeYouEye
Jan 11, 2005, 09:37 AM
Would someone be able to help me, I am trying to get a netowrk drive to mount automatically when i log in.
The drive i am trying to mount is a NTFS formatted drive in a windows box, in another area of the house. The computer I am trying to mount it on is connected to the network via a Airport Extreme Card.
I am thinking it mght be either the fact it is NTFS, or that it is over the WiFi network.
Thanks in advance
There's a script that you can use to force it, but if you screw up or disconnect the network drive, it can render your computer unusable; it'll freeze a few seconds after startup and require a hard restart.
Also, I think there's some bug which prevents mounting an entire NTFS drive over the network. A shared folder sure, but not the entire drive. That might have been resolved though.
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