Okay, so I've got my nice little file-server up and running, it's running FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD and I'm hosting a 8TB ZFS RAIDZ array on my network and as FreeNAS supports both samba / cifs for my Windows systems and afp (v3) for my macintosh systems.
There is only one slight problem, I've got a Mac Mini acting as iTunes and media-server, running applications like µTorrent for Mac with automatic rss downloads saved directly to my file-server. The problem is that for whatever reason OS X doesn't seem to be able to save my afp shares password? So when I add my @freenas share to be connected automatically when I log onto my Mac Mini user it fails as a result of it not being able to input the password as it never gets saved. So I have to manually go "connect to server", chose afp://"server-ip-address" from my favourites list and input the password every single time.
It only saves the password needed to access freenas.local, the actual file-server but no the password created for the afp share itself. This makes things rather nasty as upon every boot and every single time my Mac Mini might lose connection to the share for whatever reason it's not able to re-establishing the connection without me inputting the afp share password each time. Which resolves in the iTunes server being useless as it wont have access to the media data while not connected to the share and what's makes matters even worse it µTorrent for Mac not being able to do anything other than toss all kinds of error messages claiming torrent files and everything not being available, and when I re-establishing the connection and force µTorrent to start over with the current torrents it will start downloading everything for the begging adding xxxx.xx1 savings of all the torrents making them all added and downloaded twice instead of simply resuming where it had left out.
Funny thing though is that OS X have no problems connecting through samba shares, and if I do that OS X will prompt me and ask me if I want to save the password and it will have no issues whatsoever to automatically re-connect upon login and restart of my Mac Mini. But of course, because of slightly added and more stable connection I want to use AFP instead of samba / cifs when my file-server actually supports it.
There surly has to be a way to get OS X saving my afp share password? I tried to add it manually into keychain but without luck.
There is only one slight problem, I've got a Mac Mini acting as iTunes and media-server, running applications like µTorrent for Mac with automatic rss downloads saved directly to my file-server. The problem is that for whatever reason OS X doesn't seem to be able to save my afp shares password? So when I add my @freenas share to be connected automatically when I log onto my Mac Mini user it fails as a result of it not being able to input the password as it never gets saved. So I have to manually go "connect to server", chose afp://"server-ip-address" from my favourites list and input the password every single time.
It only saves the password needed to access freenas.local, the actual file-server but no the password created for the afp share itself. This makes things rather nasty as upon every boot and every single time my Mac Mini might lose connection to the share for whatever reason it's not able to re-establishing the connection without me inputting the afp share password each time. Which resolves in the iTunes server being useless as it wont have access to the media data while not connected to the share and what's makes matters even worse it µTorrent for Mac not being able to do anything other than toss all kinds of error messages claiming torrent files and everything not being available, and when I re-establishing the connection and force µTorrent to start over with the current torrents it will start downloading everything for the begging adding xxxx.xx1 savings of all the torrents making them all added and downloaded twice instead of simply resuming where it had left out.
Funny thing though is that OS X have no problems connecting through samba shares, and if I do that OS X will prompt me and ask me if I want to save the password and it will have no issues whatsoever to automatically re-connect upon login and restart of my Mac Mini. But of course, because of slightly added and more stable connection I want to use AFP instead of samba / cifs when my file-server actually supports it.
There surly has to be a way to get OS X saving my afp share password? I tried to add it manually into keychain but without luck.