Problem with mounting a network share

Scottland · 10 Aug 2013 at 11:27

Hi,

I have a NAS which stores all my media and downloads etc. At the moment I'm mounting it at boot by using the "Login Items" in the user preferences, which opens up the volume in finder when I boot. Although this isn't ideal, it's fine for now. But the problem I have is that it keeps changing the volume name which is mounted.

For instance, it will either be:

Volume_1 (which is the name of the folder on the NAS)
or Volume_1-1 (I assume because it's some sort of duplicate...)

How can I rectify this? It's causing my grief because I can't direct any apps to use this as a default location eg iTunes

Thanks

slinxy · 10 Aug 2013 at 13:29

It's best to give the nas a fixed IP address, then use the local host file on the machine to assign a name to the nas.

That way you should just have to refer to it by name and can mount it via script or login item and the name shouldn't change.

Scottland · 10 Aug 2013 at 13:43

The NAS already has a fixed IP. When I've tried using 'Connect to Server' and using the hostname instead - it always prompts me to login with a username/password - but the NAS it setup for Anon access, meaning it prompts me everytime.

slinxy · 10 Aug 2013 at 14:19

If you use remember in keychain, that should store your username and passed and shouldn't as you again.

Scottland · 10 Aug 2013 at 15:46

It will if I there are login details, it doesn't remember Guest/Anon access however.

memyselfandi · 12 Aug 2013 at 11:08

I don't know a fix but the times when I see this is when I've slept my Mac with NAS shares mounted. Then when it's resumed it does as the OP describes instead of re-establishing the existing mounts. The "fix" I use is to manually unmount the shares at shutdown.

Scottland · 12 Aug 2013 at 19:53

Yes it seems to be related to not being unmounted correctly. I wonder if an applescript might be able to 'force' it.

slinxy · 12 Aug 2013 at 20:44

Could it be something to do with the save settings on exit..
There's login/logout hooks (scripts) that will auto mount and dismount on logins and log outs.

How to edit login and logout hooks
http://superuser.com/questions/295924/how-to-run-a-script-at-login-logout-in-os-x

memyselfandi · 14 Aug 2013 at 21:58

Trouble is if you are just sleeping the system rather than shutting it down then you are not actually logging out, just suspending and locking the system, so a login/logout scripts wouldn't be run?

slinxy · 15 Aug 2013 at 17:22

I'm connected to several server drives at work, I've never had any issues with them, nor as the people that I support. I'm not trying to say the issue don't exist, as we use AD and NTFS/AFP folder permissions and not anon logins..

if you set the permissions to the share as staff, its be the same as auth user, so any valid username and password will work to access the drive.

Scottland · 20 Aug 2013 at 18:59

Been playing around with this some more, and it still doesn't play ball at all. Even with an account setup on the nas instead of using the guest account - it still either mounts as Volume_1 or Volume_1-1 and never the same thing...

Is there anyway I can explicitly tell OSX what to name the mounted volume?