Howto automount network shares under OSX

This screencast will show you how to write an Automator workflow to mount network shares at login.

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[rolanddes]

What if you need a password to access network drives? How can you integrate it to the syntax?

[bmaltais]

@rolanddes The password will be stored in your keychain. Make sure to manually mount the share at least once so the password will be stored for future use.

[ludohugo1]

This "Tips & Tricks" is awesome! Congratulations.

Been trying to do this for ages, and was quite frustrated…. Nice calming voice (and charming BTW!) and very easy to follow. Super! Thank you.

[hotgolem]

No need to use Automator. Simply mount your shares once and then drag them from finder to the Login Items section. Done.

[DitzlerPhoto]

Very helpful. Thank you.

TIP - if you are having a hard time with the syntax of the remote share you can...

1) mount the drive manually

2) go to Get Info on that drive/folder and it will show the path starting with smb or afp and you can cut and paste using that path in the Get Info box.

[arthufilg]

THANK YOU!!!!

I have been busting my head trying to figure this out! You are officially the most badass human being on the face of the planet!

[commonsense2008]

Thanks a lot! Awesome vid. I was pulling my hair out on this stuff.

[fideba1]

Excellent, had no clue that the automater even existed. Thanks !

[mikeyhp]

Video is a bit old, it shows a older version of OSX before Leopard but still as relevant today. Never used automator before and this provides an easy enough tutorial on how to use automator to get it to mount the network drives automatically. Nice work, thanks!