SMB Shares in Snow leopard

[pmalbs]

Hi All,

I am running Snow Leopard on a new Power Mac which is part of a windows network. On the Windows server, there are a couple of shares that I would like the mac to use.

I can manually connect to them and browse ok, but what I would really like to do is have them automatically load on startup and display on the desktop. I have tried connecting to the them and then dragging them into the login items, but on restart, they dont appear on the desktop.

I am a bit of a Mac newbie, so the chances are I'm doing something dumb! Any help will be appreciated.

TIA

 

[phinsup]

This appears to be some sort of bug, I have been having the exact same issue since the SL upgrade. They connected perfectly on reboot under leopard, not so under SL.

There seems to be a few bugs with the samba shares, I've got a topic going on the apple forums about it and you aren't alone.

 

[jman240]

Apple Script FTW

Source http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-16189.html

For automounting a smb share I use the following script:

tell application "Finder"
try
mount volume "SMB://<WORKGROUP>;<USER>:<PWD>@<SERVER>/<SHARE>"
on error
display dialog "There was an error mounting the Volume." & return & return & ¬
"The server may be unavailable at this time." & return & return & ¬
"Please inform the Network Administrator if the problem continues." buttons {"Okay"} default button 1
end try
end tell

I hope it helps. And of course, this goes into the StartupItems.