AFP auto mount on ReadyNAS startup (OSX 10.5.5)

[starg4ze]

I have a related question. I usually mount my shares manually using afp, not smb ("connect to server" menu item). The reason I do this is because of the following problem.

If instead I click on the NAS device icon in the finder sidebar and kind of let the volumes "automount" by selecting them, many (but not all) the times, they mount as smb shares. Is there a way to tell Mac OS to NEVER mount the shares as smb by default, and always use afp?

I don't want to disable the smb service on the NAS b/c I have windows machines in the house.

Thanks.

I know I can now use some of the automount suggestions in this post (and I will), but I am still curious about this old problem.

On My PRO, with both AFP and CIFS(SMB) shares enabled, The PRO I have THREE Icons in the sidebar: One looking as a Imac(AFP), One looking as a WinDoze-BSOD and one looking as a timecapsule(due to the enabled timemachine-support). If you click on the "Imac-nas-icon" you get AFP, If you choose BSOD you get CIFS(SMB).

[niaolong]

I found automountmaker (http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Uti ... aker.shtml) which works like a charm to mount shares during startup. And it also works with OSX 10.4 (Tiger).

[kogel]

I always user CIFS for all my shares, I mounted them automatically in the login. But since I'm all into mac now i wanted to change that into AFP. For all my shares I set the read/write on for both CIFS and AFP (because I also have 1 windows compu that must access files, and a SONOS). I put on the option to advertise AFP over Bonjour. In finder you see all the shares on KOGELNAS(AFP). BUT I also see all the shares as a windows server. I don't want that. I would like to see everything once.

Can anybody help me. I need everything to be mounted on startup because I use logical links in certain directories (like movies for Frontrow).

Thank you Frans

[niaolong]

Please see my reply above. Download automountmaker (http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Uti ... aker.shtml), install and start it. Select "new" to make a new script with what you want to launch. You will need one script for every share you want to launch. Save the scripts and then drag them into you start-up items in System Preferences/Accounts. Next time you start up your Mac, the shares should be launched automatically.

[sphardy]

In finder you see all the shares on KOGELNAS(AFP). BUT I also see all the shares as a windows server. I don't want that. I would like to see everything once.

See http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=17558

[physicsguy]

On My PRO, with both AFP and CIFS(SMB) shares enabled, The PRO I have THREE Icons in the sidebar: One looking as a Imac(AFP), One looking as a WinDoze-BSOD and one looking as a timecapsule(due to the enabled timemachine-support). If you click on the "Imac-nas-icon" you get AFP, If you choose BSOD you get CIFS(SMB).

Starg4ze:
I have the original readyNas rev A, not the Pro. I don't have those three kinds of icons in the sidebar. I just have one for the nas device, and if I click it, all the volumes mount as smb. To get afp, I have to use the finder's "connect to server" pull-down item.

Any suggestions on how to get afp every time on a mac?

[You never know!]

On My PRO, with both AFP and CIFS(SMB) shares enabled, The PRO I have THREE Icons in the sidebar: One looking as a Imac(AFP), One looking as a WinDoze-BSOD and one looking as a timecapsule(due to the enabled timemachine-support). If you click on the "Imac-nas-icon" you get AFP, If you choose BSOD you get CIFS(SMB).

Starg4ze:
I have the original readyNas rev A, not the Pro. I don't have those three kinds of icons in the sidebar. I just have one for the nas device, and if I click it, all the volumes mount as smb. To get afp, I have to use the finder's "connect to server" pull-down item.

Any suggestions on how to get afp every time on a mac?

Maybe cause you´re using 10.4. not 10.5?

[cbhiii]

Bonjour Mounter didn't work for me. It was causing kernel panics on my new Macbook after coming out of sleep. The same is true for MountWatcher which I paid for but have not gotten any support on.

[ranmori]

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[rcarr6502]

After a lot of trial-and-error, I discovered that if you're going to use the System Preferences->Users->Login Items method to automount your shares, make sure you automount your private home share (or other non-guest-login shares) BEFORE you automount other shares. Otherwise, your private home share (or non-guest-login shares) won't mount and will give you an error -6602 on any attempt to mount, until you unmount all shares and start over.

This is true in OSX 10.5. I don't know if it's true in other revs.

[KillerBob]

All,

I never got Automounter, Bonjour Mounter, or any of the countless other utilities to work, and I still am irritated to s.... that there is not a small simple functioning application to scan for my AFP shares regularly and mount them again if they are missing.

My problem is not so much when my ReadyNAS Pro restarts, but rather with my MBP. Every-time it goes to sleep, and I wake it up again, the shares disappear. I get a silly message; "service connections interrupted".

I know this is NOT a ReadyNAS Pro issue (it works fine on my MBA), but rather an OSX/MBP issue with the WiFi.

However, such a small application would mean no issues at all:)

KB

[fixmacs]

This is very easy to do. Don't need AppleScripts or any third-party applications.

1) Mount the NAS share manually
2) Go to System Preferences in the Apple Menu
3) Select Accounts
4) Select Login Items
5) Drag and drop the icons for the ReadyNAS shares from the desktop to the Login Items window
6) Quit System Preferences

You're done. The NAS shares will automount at start-up.

[KillerBob]

That's exactly what I have, but they will disappear again when the MBP goes to sleep and comes back to wake stage!

KB

[fixmacs]

You don't mention the operating system. Assuming 10.5.7 connecting to AFP shares:

Mount the share(s)
Make aliases of the shares
Double click the alias after the Mac wakes from sleep

An alternative is to drag the share icon to the Dock, thus making a mountable dock alias.

[KillerBob]

Yes I am using 10.5.7, and I have used both these two solutions, and they do work, but I want it automatic. Having 9 links to shares in the dock is not pretty, and neither is 9 links on the desktop.

And, why does this work on my MBA and my Mac Pro, and not my MBP?. It must be something to do with the WiFi setup differences in the two laptops.

KB