Best Way To Keep A Drive Always Mounted

Markus Hitter mah at jump-ing.de
Fri Oct 26 02:54:22 PDT 2007


Am 26.10.2007 um 09:43 schrieb Michael Stearne:

> We need to have a drive on one mac to always be mounted on another mac
> (both 10.4) within the same local network.
>
> The most important thing is to make sure this drive is always mounted
> and comes back up after reboot of either machine.
>
> Any ideas?

Add an entry into /etc/fstab. Requires hardcoding of eventual  
passwords, though. See "man fstab" and various samples on the net.

To avoid hardcoding passwords you can put an Alias to the volume into  
the user's startup items. A login dialog will appear.


Markus

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