[IonCable]

Ok, I have a couple of mac that mount about 20 volumes. They all mount automatically at startup, but this happens anytime I mount a volume. A new finder window opens. How do I turn this off. Just because I mounted the volume doesn't mean I want to look at it. Is it possible to do this? I'm running 10.3.6.

Help

I've been searching forums for days for a solution.

[addiecool]

I know this is really annoying. I too face this problem.

In any case how do you automount your volumes?? I have to manualy mount them once I reboot.


Thanks

[midwinter]

Originally posted by IonCable:
Ok, I have a couple of mac that mount about 20 volumes. They all mount automatically at startup, but this happens anytime I mount a volume. A new finder window opens. How do I turn this off. Just because I mounted the volume doesn't mean I want to look at it. Is it possible to do this? I'm running 10.3.6.

Help

I've been searching forums for days for a solution.

Hold down the option key when you close one of the finder windows and it'll close all of them.

[Ilja]

I too have this problem. Checking 'hide' in startup-items doesn't solve the problem...

[[APi]TheMan]

A few days ago I was playing with mounting samba shares from the command line using smbclient or mount_smbfs and I noticed that mounting them this way did not open their window like when the Finder mounts them. The only drawback is that you can't unmount them from the Finder, you'll have to do it with the umount command.

Unless you do it often, the syntax to mount from the commandline is tricky and has currently left me, but I figured it out using the man pages once.

[siMac]

This bugs me too. I use Alt-Cmd-W to close all windows after a reboot, but I'd rather have them not open in the first place.

To addiecool, drag the mounted volume from your desktop to the startup items list in Accounts to have it automatically connect at login.

[addiecool]

Thanks man

[Mac Write]

One possible work-around is to have an applescript mount the drives, then once they are mounted close all finder windows. The Applescript would check to make sure they mounted, then close the finder windows once all of the shares are mounted. I don't know Applescript, so I can't help you there.

[shortcipher]

Originally posted by Mac Write:
One possible work-around is to have an applescript mount the drives, then once they are mounted close all finder windows. The Applescript would check to make sure they mounted, then close the finder windows once all of the shares are mounted. I don't know Applescript, so I can't help you there.

a better way to do this is to use NetInfo manager to specify mounts at startup, this is a tiny bit tricky to do, as you have to know what you are doing with NetInfo Manager and not screw things up, but it does provide a very convenient way to have your server mounts ready and waiting at all times, and no windows opening! A description of how to do it can be found at:

http://sial.org/howto/osx/automount/

[utidjian]

Originally posted by shortcipher:
a better way to do this is to use NetInfo manager to specify mounts at startup, this is a tiny bit tricky to do, as you have to know what you are doing with NetInfo Manager and not screw things up, but it does provide a very convenient way to have your server mounts ready and waiting at all times, and no windows opening! A description of how to do it can be found at:

http://sial.org/howto/osx/automount/

I do a similar thing via an automount map from NIS. It was a real PITA to set it up the first time though because the information on exactly what to do was not in one place.

I have two servers running Red Hat Linux (currently 7.2 and 9). Each server exports their shares via NFS to the labs subnet. One server exports the users $HOME folders the other exports /scratch space that all users can read/write to.

The NIS server has a couple of tweaks:
I had to create a mounts.byname map in NIS by editing the /var/yp/Makefile and then running 'make' in /var/yp.
I had to edit my /etc/auto.master file and create an /etc/auto.macfile. Restart NFS and NIS. Done on the server side.

On the Mac OS X client side I had to tell /Applications/Utilities/Directory Access to use NIS and what the NIS domain was. Reboot. Done on the client side.

Now all clients automagically mount and unmount the shares. It takes minimal configuration on new clients. I can manage all shares to all clients on the fly by editing one file on the server.

I think all of the above is (or should be) do-able in Mac OS X Server, perhaps in a different way... I don't really know. I don't use the Xserves we have that way.

[jbhopper]

Make an applescript with just the code:

mount volume ("<protocol>://<server address>/<Drive Name>")

for example, mine is:
mount volume ("afp://192.168.1.99/Drive 1 (A-H)")
mount volume ("afp://192.168.1.99/Drive 2 (I-P)")
mount volume ("afp://192.168.1.99/Drive 3 (Q-Z)")

Save it as an application somewhere on your drive, and put that in your login items. If you need the User/pass in there you can do this for AFP:
afp://user;AUTH=authType:password@server-name:port/volume-name/path