[russellj]

I am an expert windows user who recently switched to a MacBook Pro running OS X a couple months ago. In general, I am very pleased with the MBP and OS X but am having problems figuring out how to configure the MBP to access my network shares (on windows and linux boxes). Here's my scenario:

I use the MBP in my office both wired and wirelessly. I also use the MBP when out of the office. In the office I have a LAN with both windows and linux shares available. I use the network shares both for music storage (itunes library) and documents. What I would like is for my favorite network shares to always be mounted in a specific place when I am connected to my network (wired or wireless). When I am out of the office, obviously the shares do not have to be mounted.

I found some articles via google on how to configure OS X to dynamically automount SMB shares but the problem I have is that OS X doesn't handle when my network state changes (from wired to wireless or vice-versa) or when I sleep and then wake w/o my office network present. The finder will hang when trying to access shares that are no longer available or they are available but the network state has changed.

I called apple care for help and they couldn't help me. They told me I could pay for enterprise support but I don't want to do that. I'm a one man shop and don't have the budget for that.

Any help is appreciated! thanks.

Russell

[El Gato]

I ran into this same problem a little while ago.

http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/...ed-on-network/

[russellj]

Thanks it looks like this will work but I'll have to add some things to the scripts. For example, I want to check if I'm on my wired network first (not sure yet how to do this as there is no ssid to identify it) and skip the airport stuff if so. If anyone knows how to do this, would save me some time by sharing.

if (when) I figure it out, i'll post the final scripts.

Russell