How to automount SMB shared network drives in Mac OS X Lion
Problem
In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Apple has replaced good old SMB support. Now I can't auto connect to my shared (SMB) network drives. Workarounds? Or is this impossible? In OS X Snow Leopard, I could automatically connect my Ubuntu (SMB) shared network drives with auto_smb / auto_master (autofs configuration in /private/etc/). I made three mount points (folders) directly in '/Volumes', I used /Volumes/Data and /Volumes/webroot (both SMB shared). Unfortunately Lion doesn't connect (automount) my network drives. I have to manually connect to the server (Ubuntu file server) in Finder, then open up Terminal to navigate to the mount points, and then it connects. This is not a workable solution. I've searched (Google/SO) but found no solutions apart from an unsupported hack. Isn't it possible anymore to automatically connect to an SMB-shared drive during startup?
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Fix for: How to automount SMB shared network drives in Mac OS X Lion
Here's how can automount a network drive Connect to your network drive (finder > go > connect to server) Enter the credentials for your login to your network drive and tick the ‘remember in keychain’ Open system settings > users > login items Drag the icon for your network drive from your desktop to the startup items. Source: This article
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