How do you use the automounter to mount windows shares?

[clanmills]

Anybody like to contribute an answer?

[aziernest]

Hi dude,

Can you explain your motive in bit details?
I googled and found something that might be helpful for you
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Goodluck
and btw, if you have already solved your problem, tell us how you done it ?

[clanmills]

Originally Posted by aziernest

Hi dude,

Can you explain your motive in bit details?
I googled and found something that might be helpful for you
[ [url]http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031022164821984[/url] ]

Goodluck
and btw, if you have already solved your problem, tell us how you done it ?

No, I haven't solved this. I have little scripts which mount my drives 'on demand' (on Tiger/Leopard). The essential code is:

osascript -e 'mount volume "smb://domain-name;username:password@machine-name/sharepoint"'

Tiger offers 'Network' in Finder which you can navigate to mount a share. And the Leopard 'Shared' section in Finder is updated when machines join/leave the network. Of course mounting drives with Finder involves clicking around with my mouse. (Or I can run my little script).

These methods work and are 'kind of OK'. However, I'd like the automounter to do it for me.

Incidentally, the equivalent window feature is a drive letter which is persistant. So when the server comes on line, the drive letter works. Convenient.

Oh, and by the way, my name's Robin - although I'll answer to Dude for you if you can tell me how to do this.