Making Networked External HDs Connect on Boot

[AnthroAndStargate]

I have 2 500gig external USB 2.0 harddrives pluggied into a USB hub and then into my 500gig Time Capsule. I was wondering if it is possible to make both of these drives auto-mount when I turn on my computer (or anytime I access my Time Capsule network if my computer is in standby I guess). Basically I'm getitng sick of having to go to finder, open the time capsule, then click on each drive and let them load. I thought it would act as a network drive in Windows where you could map it and have it always be there.

Is this not possible in OS X? :/

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

I know you can set the drives to launch on the startup options under accounts but then it opens a finder window - is there another way that is "silent" i.e. just connects to the drives but does nothing? i tried an automater/applescript and both create applications that bounce on your dock and load when you boot so they arent silent either.

ideally there would be a built in os x option to connect ot the drives when the computer is on or comes out of sleep - why they didn't put this in I don't know /sigh

 

[Tyranicus]

You can use the instructions found in this link to hide the dock icons of your Automater actions.

 

[aphex]

Its odd that they don't automount in Leopard, i've noticed the same thing. In Tiger they seemed to always automount on their own.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Originally posted by: Tyranicus
You can use the instructions found in this link to hide the dock icons of your Automater actions.

Weird doesn't seem to work with automater scripts, seems to break them. And apple scripts have no info.plist cause I guess even the .app scripts aren't really applications.

Oh well this was an elegant solution at best on my part. Thanks anyway mate.

I can't believe they took out the option in the OS to do this on boot.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

I did find a thing called Directory Utility in Utilities that allows you to setup NFS shares. Unfortunately the Time Capsule shares external drives as AFP so I am out of luck again I guess for anyone else that has a NFS share though this is the way you would make drives load at boot on a system level.