Mac network drive disappears after reboot

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I copied my music files to my local hard drive, on both our macs.I click it whenever I need to work with files on my NAS. I have put a shortcut to the network share on my desktop.So, this isn't an answer to your question, but I have done the following as a (bad) workaround:

#MAC NETWORK DRIVE DISAPPEARS AFTER REBOOT MAC#

However, no such thing is available on Mac (see here). This gives the added benefit of a backup copy and ability to work offline.

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As a result, shortcuts to the share sometimes become unusable.ДЄnother solution would be to cache all information from the share locally, like you can do on Windows Vista and higher very easily using Windows Sync (or Windows Offline files as it is also called).

additionally, when using fast user switching the network share is mounted two times because of user permission issues.

I then have to wait for about 10 seconds before I can mount the share again.

also, when my mac awakes from sleep, sometimes the network mapping is lost (a dialog tells me 'server connection interrupted') sometimes it keeps on working.

indeed an application, like iTunes or MS Word, doesn't bring up (mount) the network share automatically when it is not mounted.

Other solutions are based on automator scripts, but it is all very clumpsy.

There is a way to automatically map a drive at logon (you can add it to the 'applications' to launch at logon, see for example the explanation here), but that isn't working very well for me (see e.g. Even on Linux things work out much better than on Mac. Windows is much better for handling network drives. I do have a NAS as well, and having switched to Mac about 2 years ago, I found this to be one of the main disadvantages of Mac. To solve the issue of a Finder window showing the network drive each time you log in, you can check the Hide box in the Login Items list. This is pretty nice if you are working a lot between OS X and Windows, and need to move files between the two. Some shares will not work with the keychain though.

#MAC NETWORK DRIVE DISAPPEARS AFTER REBOOT PASSWORD#

If your share requires authentication, it may be possible to add the username and password into your keychain with the check box in the authentication window. Then you will just drag the share from your desktop or Finder window into the Login Items list. Once in Accounts, you will need go to the Login Items tab. You will need to be in System Preferences for this, which you can get to by clicking on the Apple Menu and then going to System Preferences. But OS X makes it pretty simple if you are just needing to add the share to your machine.

The internet is littered with ways to write scripts to allow you to do this. To keep the share showing up when you have to log out seems pretty difficult. Now if you have Connected Servers showing on your desktop, it will show up on your desktop an in Finder. If your Windows share requires authentication it will ask you for that info here. In Server Address you will need to put the location of you Windows share with this format smb://server/share where server is the name or IP address of your Windows machine and share is going to be the folder or drive you want to mount. When you are in Finder you can click Go and Connect to Server or you can type Command + K to get to the same menu. Mount a Windows Share in OS X and Have it Reconnect at Login

Mac network drive disappears after reboot