Tutorial: How to Auto Mount AFP Share in Mac OS X (Leopard)?
Andy Chan | Mar 03, 2009 | Comments 5
Auto Mount AFP Share in Mac OS X is very easy. No shell script, applescript, or automator is required. Just following the 7 simple steps:
- Goto System Preferences
- Goto Accounts
- Make sure you pick the user you use to login
- Goto Login Items
- Click on the + sign at the bottom of the list
- Browse the Shared network share. Make sure you open up the directory/folder you want to auto mount
- Click Add
- You should see the newly added share appears as the volume kind in the login item list. When you reboot and login, the share will be mounted automatically.
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p>Very cool. Many thanks, Fei Hua.
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p>This shows the biggest drawback about Apple. It’s always angling to sell Mac OS-X Server and/or Applecare.
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p>I spent a couple hours searching the Apple KB for some hint of how to do this. There were plenty of articles about the GUI Server Admin tools that come with OS-X Server, but you know it’s got to be simpler than that.
Thanks for this … I was wandering around looking at complicated unix ways of doing this. Your tip was just the job
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