Anyone who has used a Macintosh in a network environment for several years will remember a feature from OS 9 and earlier versions that allowed you to save logon credentials for a network volume. This would allow users to have those network volumes automatically mount on the Mac desktop when the user logged in on the Mac. As with many other features of the new operating system, this functionality changed with the release of OS X. As a result, there is no longer a simple checkbox that a user can enable to have a network volume automatically mount when the user logs in.
There are several ways to recover this functionality, however. This document details one of the simpler methods. Given the intended audience for this document, there are several assumptions being made.
- The Macintosh is running Mac OS 10.4 or later.
- The server providing the network volumes is running SBS 2003.
- The Macintosh is accessing shares on the SBS server through SMB, not AppleTalk.