I'm newish to Mac OSX and have had no luck researching this topic on the web so far.
Like Windows, I want to map a drive or in Mac language, "connect to a server", and have it stay put forever, and never disappear. The target is my Synology NAS over SMB.
I've done this using two methods.
Automount with autofs and Login Items from the Users panel in System Preferences. Both show the same bad behavior, which is the drive is there on login, but disappears over time. I simply don't and will not reboot my Mac every time I use it, so having a truly persistent drive would be helpful and in my opinion should be easy and painless, but isn't.
The real problem isn't getting the drive to appear. I simply click on it from the dock and it reappears. The problem is that this behavior obliterates the usefulness of the Favorites section in Finder. You see, once the drive disconnects, the favorites I've placed in Finder from the NAS disappear along with it. This is really stupid and annoying. I don't want to not only reconnect the drive but recreate all my favorites as well. A NAS is used to centrally store a lot of files away from the limited and non-upgradable storage on my iMac Pro. I need this and I want it available to me as soon as I start working.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Please...replies like "this is how Mac does it", or suggesting that I put up with it, are not helpful unless you're admitting that this is the only truth. This is basic stuff, and Apple should've done a better job of implementing it many many years ago.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Like Windows, I want to map a drive or in Mac language, "connect to a server", and have it stay put forever, and never disappear. The target is my Synology NAS over SMB.
I've done this using two methods.
Automount with autofs and Login Items from the Users panel in System Preferences. Both show the same bad behavior, which is the drive is there on login, but disappears over time. I simply don't and will not reboot my Mac every time I use it, so having a truly persistent drive would be helpful and in my opinion should be easy and painless, but isn't.
The real problem isn't getting the drive to appear. I simply click on it from the dock and it reappears. The problem is that this behavior obliterates the usefulness of the Favorites section in Finder. You see, once the drive disconnects, the favorites I've placed in Finder from the NAS disappear along with it. This is really stupid and annoying. I don't want to not only reconnect the drive but recreate all my favorites as well. A NAS is used to centrally store a lot of files away from the limited and non-upgradable storage on my iMac Pro. I need this and I want it available to me as soon as I start working.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Please...replies like "this is how Mac does it", or suggesting that I put up with it, are not helpful unless you're admitting that this is the only truth. This is basic stuff, and Apple should've done a better job of implementing it many many years ago.
Thanks in advance for your reply.