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

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.

Scottland · 10 Aug 2013 at 15:46

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

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.

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?