Dropping mounted shares

[Killerbob]

Hi,

On my MacBook Pro I have set up a bunch of shares to mount upon login. They then are presented by icons on the desktop, all using server "afp://BMK-rnp (AFP)._afpovertco._tcp.local/SHARE NAME". The shares are hosted on my Infrant/NetGear ReadyNAS Pro, which uses the AFP protocol, and advertises the AFP service over Bonjour.

However, when I have had the MBP sleeping for a few hours, not just a few minutes, and I open it back up, it has lost the connection to the shares. I get a message that the server is unavailable, and that the shares are disconnected. I can't do anything about it, except disconnect the shares in the pop-up, open up finder, and click on the "BMK-rnp (AFP)" icon under shared, and then reconnect to the shares.

Is there a way, using std. OSX tools, to "re-connect" to the shares? I have tried a small utility - "Bounjour Mounter" - but I never got it working right.

Thanks in advance,

KB

 

[LtRammstein]

Try looking into a Bash command/script. I know there's a file under /usr/ that you can edit and it will automatically mount/unmount drives for you.

 

[Killerbob]

I am afraid I have no idea how to do that, but thanks for the advise. There has got to be a utility (or someone could make money doing so), keeps mounts alive???

KB

 

[MisterMe]

... There has got to be a utility (or someone could make money doing so), keeps mounts alive???

KB

You can't keep mounts awake while your computer is asleep. That's what asleep means.

 

[Killerbob]

Duh!

Of course I mean that the mounts should be functional even after sleep/wake-up.

It is supposedly exactly what "Bonjour Mounter" is doing, I just can't get it to work.

KB

 

[LtRammstein]

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=80089

That's if your shared drives are NFS.

The file I was talking about was the fstab file. You'll want to do some Googling to see exactly how it works. At my past job we has an NFS set up and I had to use fstab and a few other files to make sure everyone had access to all the drives from any computer. It's pretty cool to use because from there you can write a bash script (or find one) that will run in the background so when the machine wakes up, it can remount the drives.

 

[Killerbob]

All,

I never got the very irritating issue resolved.

Every time my MBP is put into sleep (by time, or by closing the lid), when I open it up again, it looses the network shares I have linked on the desktop.

I have a MacBook Air, which is set up identically with regards to the network shares, and on it I have no problems whatsoever

Is there anything on the MBP which is different in how the AirPort works when it is put into sleep?

KB