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Automounting remote volumns

SMM

SMM

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Sep 22, 2006
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Tiger Mountain - WA State
I have no problem connecting and manually mounting shares on other Mac's, or Windows machines. However, I have to manually mount them after each boot. I have looked for an option to automatically mount them, but have not found it. Do I have to make an entry in vfstab or something similar? Thanks.
 
You should be able to automount them by adding the AFP addresses to your Login Items.
 
WildCowboy said:
You should be able to automount them by adding the AFP addresses to your Login Items.
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The simplest way to do so is to manually mount the drive, then open System Preferences...->Accounts->[your account]->Login items, then drag the disk icon from your desktop onto the Login Items list.

Cake.
 
jsw - wild cowboy

Yes, that did the trick nicely! I do appreciate your taking time to help. I was looking in all the wrong places - still being de-windowized.
 
SMM said:
Yes, that did the trick nicely! I do appreciate your taking time to help. I was looking in all the wrong places - still being de-windowized.
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makes you wonder why Windows doesn't work that way, doesn't it? :)
 
beatsme said:
makes you wonder why Windows doesn't work that way, doesn't it? :)
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Well, in all fairness, lots of "easy" OS X tricks are easy only once you know them and aren't particularly easy to figure out on your own.
 
jsw said:
Well, in all fairness, lots of "easy" OS X tricks are easy only once you know them and aren't particularly easy to figure out on your own.
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that's true. Though I'm working toward my MCSE, so I'm spending a lot of time with Windows, and I'm just amazed at how unnecessarily complicated (and downright un-intuitive) it is.

here's a potential poll question:
how does Windows compare to OSX in terms of the "learning curve?" Is OSX easier or more difficult to figure out than XP?
 
beatsme said:
here's a potential poll question:
how does Windows compare to OSX in terms of the "learning curve?" Is OSX easier or more difficult to figure out than XP?
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My parents seem equally adept (or inept) at both, and so I'd guess that they're about equally easy (or hard) to learn - at least to get to the point of knowing what you need to know for day-to-day "normal" usage.
 
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