Auto Mount Network Drives

[matthutch]

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]

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]

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.