[vwgtiturbo]

Hello, recently I set up my MacBook to connect to a network share on login. This does work when the other server is available. Of course, if the server is not available it won't work. I was wondering if there was a way to change the time out that occurs when the system is attempting to reach the server. Can you make it try for, say, 10 seconds, instead of a minute? I ask because I don't always have network connectivity, and for the duration of my system trying to connect, the system is unresponsive until the connection times out. After that, all is well. It is exactly like XP seeming to hang on the login window as it tries to connect to mapped network drives that aren't available. If there is no way to do this, then I can just disable the login item to connect to this drive, but I just thought I would ask. Thanks in advance!

[ibook_steve]

One of the great mysteries of networking with Macs is why Apple has *never* had some way of adjusting timeouts. As you mentioned, until recently, this could totally stall a machine, sometimes requiring a reboot. Leopard has made the situation a little better (I often forget to "eject" network volumes when I leave work requiring a click of the "Disconnect" button when I get home with my MBP), but there's no way change the timing of this "feature." If anybody knows a command line argument for doing this, I'd be interested as well.

Steve