Map a NAS from MBP?

[tlawski]

Hi All,

I just bought a DLink-323 NAS but I have no idea how to set it up so that I can see and permanently map the drive from my MBP?

I'm sure someone has done this before so if you could provide me directions I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[costabunny]

once you have it setup, why not make a simple script to mount it at boot time?

I have a script (that checks which WLAN the MBA is hooked into first) and then issues the following;

mount_smbfs //10.10.10.10:/public Desktop/NAS

<where 10.10.10.10 is my NAS IP, :/public is the NAS share folder and Desktop/NAS is an empty directory used as a mount point>

Save the script as a .command file (eg I have in my home folder mount_nas.sh.command) and in system prefs/users/login items > add it to be run.

Thats my solution, there is probably a simpler one, but I am a unixy person so this makes simple sense to me

 

[donmei]

Cant you just browse to the network resource and then drag it into the sidebar?

 

[tlawski]

Thanks for the replies. I should have mentioned that I'm a new Mac user so what you're suggesting sounds great...but unfortunately, I'm gonna need to have my hand held.

Just how do I browse to the network resource?

A unix script would be great as well, but I think I need to figure out how to see the NAS first.

Thanks again