Connecting to Shares

[Reliant]

Hello,

I have a Windows Home Server with all my file contents. I can connect to it just fine from my MBP, I have it set to automatically mount on start up and that works fine. I have 2 questions. First, it only let's me select to mount a specific volume within the share, IE music, video, etc. Can I just mount the root each time instead?

Secondly, on start up Finder pops up with the share loaded. I'd like it to silently connect instead of popping up each time, is there a way?

Thanks!

 

[Patranus]

It works just like windows.

You have to mount a volume/share, you cannot mount the "root".
One solution would be to move your shared folder into a single shared folder and mount that folder.
Instead of
SMB://<Host Name>/Volume1
SMB://<Host Name>/Volume2
SMB://<Host Name>/Volume3

You could try
SMB://<Host Name>/Volumes
-------------------------------------/Volume1
-------------------------------------/Volume2
-------------------------------------/Volume3

Another option would be to hide the volumes and then create a mount point to the network shares
mount -t cifs //<Host Name>/Volume1 ~/Desktop/Server/Volume1
mount -t cifs //<Host Name>/Volume2 ~/Desktop/Server/Volume2
mount -t cifs //<Host Name>/Volume3 ~/Desktop/Server/Volume3



No sure what you are asking in your 2nd question.

 

[Reliant]

About my second question..when I boot, a finder window pops up with the mounted volume. I'd just like that to not happen, any ideas?

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

About my second question..when I boot, a finder window pops up with the mounted volume. I'd just like that to not happen, any ideas?

It has been awhile since I looked into this but when I was trying to make some remote shares mount without using Finder (and thus not have a window pop up since Finder won't hide windows) I ended up using an Apple Script or Automator Script.

I can't remember which I used but you can do either, there are some out there on Google. I think the actions to "Connect to remote network disk" are already in Automator so just write a script connecting to the disks you want and have the Automator script run on startup. It should auto-mount the discs and not open anything.