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I'm a beginner when it comes to macOS, I did have a MacBook Air M1 briefly, and I bought a Mac Mini M4 at the weekend.

I've been having an issue with my NAS not being in Finder/Locations if I turn the Mac Mini off so have to go through connect to server again. To try and get round this I added each shared folder on my NAS to the Open at Login section of Settings and whilst this has solved the issue, if I reboot my Mac Mini all the different share folder windows open up on the screen. Not the biggest issue ever as I just close them all but is there a way to stop those windows opening on boot up?

Having been a Windows user since 3.1, earliest I can remember having, there's quite a lot to get to grips with with macOS.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
 
Automounter is a good but you can do it within MacOS; save credentials to keychain then add the mounted drives to 'Login Items' - Settings > General > Login Items, add mounted drive to 'Open at Login'.
Apple does need to make reconnection a lot simpler given this feature has existed in other OS's for decades.
 
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visibleman said:
Automounter is a good but you can do it within MacOS; save credentials to keychain then add the mounted drives to 'Login Items' - Settings > General > Login Items, add mounted drive to 'Open at Login'.
Apple does need to make reconnection a lot simpler given this feature has existed in other OS's for decades.
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Mine sometimes just disappears randomly. With Automounter it's just always available
 
vail3r said:
Mine sometimes just disappears randomly. With Automounter it's just always available
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Can't say i've seen that but it's MacOS so weird stuff happens sometimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But that's the biggest advantage with Automounter, it's daemon checks regularly checks mounts and reconnects if need be. Arguably though, you could do similar with automator/bash script and just schedule it with a CRON job.
 
visibleman said:
Automounter is a good but you can do it within MacOS; save credentials to keychain then add the mounted drives to 'Login Items' - Settings > General > Login Items, add mounted drive to 'Open at Login'.
Apple does need to make reconnection a lot simpler given this feature has existed in other OS's for decades.
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And then when they manage to unmount themselves (which invariably happens), they stay unmounted. It's just rubbish! Automounter keeps them mounted and if they fall off, they get remounted.

I have conditions set in automounter as well so that the mount is dependant on being able to ping the NAS.
 
Feek said:
And then when they manage to unmount themselves (which invariably happens), they stay unmounted. It's just rubbish! Automounter keeps them mounted and if they fall off, they get remounted.

I have conditions set in automounter as well so that the mount is dependant on being able to ping the NAS.
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Not saying it isn't a good app, just offering an alternative. And if you need periodic checks and reconnections then a bash script and cron would offer similar if someone didn't want to pay the £10/11.

Still, mount reconnections (as well as VPN reconnections) should be part of MacOS and i've never understood why it isn't; has to be one of my biggest gripes with MacOS.
 
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