I recently got a Mac at work running on a Windows network environment.
I have managed to easily connect to the network drives and shares that
I need, but they are lost everytime I restart the mac. I have to back
through the steps of adding them each time.

Its quite a pain seeing as how I have many shares that I need to
access each time. I'm pretty sure its just something that I am missing
as I'm not all that familiar with Macs yet... and i'm sure the answer
is obvious... but of course, I don't know it =)

Anybody care to shed some light on this?

Thanks!

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cperezwlu******.com (Calo) wrote:

>I recently got a Mac at work running on a Windows network environment.
>I have managed to easily connect to the network drives and shares that
>I need, but they are lost everytime I restart the mac. I have to back
>through the steps of adding them each time.
>
>Its quite a pain seeing as how I have many shares that I need to
>access each time. I'm pretty sure its just something that I am missing
>as I'm not all that familiar with Macs yet... and i'm sure the answer
>is obvious... but of course, I don't know it =)

How are you connecting to the network volumes? Connect to Server in the
Finder and typing something like "smb://windozename"? If so, after you
connect to it and it's mounted on your, make an alias of the server icon
that's on your desktop. Then you should be able to just double-click
that alias after a reboot or a logout/in and it will mount it for you.

You can also add favorites to the Connect to Server window by typing the
"smb://name" stuff into the field, then click the + button. Then it will
show up in the list below, where you can easily double-click it to mount
it.

--
Steve Mills
Mac geek, drummer

> How are you connecting to the network volumes? Connect to Server in the
> Finder and typing something like "smb://windozename"? If so, after you
> connect to it and it's mounted on your, make an alias of the server icon
> that's on your desktop. Then you should be able to just double-click
> that alias after a reboot or a logout/in and it will mount it for you.
>
> You can also add favorites to the Connect to Server window by typing the
> "smb://name" stuff into the field, then click the + button. Then it will
> show up in the list below, where you can easily double-click it to mount
> it.


I was connecting using the finder, then doubleclicking on the server.
Then a box shows up showing what share I want to add.

Is there a way to have them automatically mount on boot up? I have
about 5 shares that I will typically need to access. Would be nice
that they just mount automatically. Is there a "Startup" folder as
there is on Windows machines?