[MacTUG] Mapping a Network Drive at Login

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Hi Lowell

I usually get the user to connect to the server manually (under the Go menu) and get them to click 'remember password in keychain' or however it is worded. Then your solution should work.

So if I would want it to autologon, I would do these steps:

  1.  as the apple article states, it is probably a good idea to have the connected servers show up on the desktop (so people do not get confused) so I would click that on in Finder preferences
  2.  Mount the network share using Go>Connect to Server
  3.  Click the remember password in keychain button
  4.  Go to System Preferences>User & Groups>username>login items
  5.  At this point I probably would not drag the whole share into the window. I would open the share (called 'Users' in this case) and then find the username I wanted and drag it into the window as described in the apple doc you linked to.
  6.  I wish the 'hide' button would not cause the window to open all the time on login, but maybe that is what you want.

An alternative if you have people that do not want it always auto logging in is that you could drag the users folder on the share down onto the dock — it has to be on the 'folder' side of the dock (to the right of the little dotted line). That way when they want to connect the user name and password that is saved in the keychain is used to mount the connection.

It is probably better that a user is set to auto login and it probably is good that it pops into their face every time they log in. It is probably not a bad idea however to make an alias of their account on the share and put it on the desktop. It is an easier way for them to navigate to their directory than scrolling through all the users on the network share.

don

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From: Lowell Williamson <llwillia at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:llwillia at uwaterloo.ca>>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:35:21 +0000
To: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>>
Subject: [MacTUG] Mapping a Network Drive at Login

Hi,

I’m trying to have our standalone MAC users map their N: drive automatically at login. The path to N: is smb://fileu.uwaterloo.ca/users$/%username%. I’ve tried adding it to the Login Items as per, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4011, but it won’t pass the username and password. I’ve also tried it using the mount command but with no luck.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

Thanks.
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Lowell
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