Why do my network drives always disappear?

[jsledge]

i have a macbook running 10.4.11 and every time i lift the lid, I have to go into recent and find my nas drives. I ad them to my dock, I put them on my desk top and the next time I lift the lid they disappear. Why in Apples infinite wisdom did they not make mapping drive easier than windows, and why is there no info in the help on the computer In this area windows better.

Can anyone help me with this.


thanks

Jim

 

[aj-uk]

There are a couple of things you can do to get around this problem.

1, Create an alias on your desktop to the NAS drive. (Right click, make alias)

2, Drag the NAS drives into your login items, in System Preferences under Accounts. This should re-establish the connections whenever you log in.

 

[jsledge]

I can't. When I boot the machine. nothing shows up under networks. When I first installed the nas, my macbook found the drive and all was good. I put the machine to sleep and when I lifted the lid to use it, all of my network shares disappeared. So I can't see any of my shares or nas.

 

[aj-uk]

When you've got them "on your desktop" do the dragging from there.

 

[jsledge]

THere is a misunderstanding... The only drive at this point that shows up on my computer is the internal hard drive. if I go into recent it shows the share drives on the nas, not the. how do i get back to the nas drive

 

[aj-uk]

I'm not sure if this is the same in Tiger, but in Leopard there's an option in Finder preferences to display or not display, connected servers on the desktop.

Do you have this box? Is it ticked?

 

[Robert Andrews]

An inelegant solution, but a solution...

I am a noob. I am having the same problem. Here is an inelegant solution that I've found. Click on apple (top right) then expand out Recent Items. Drag this icon to your desktop. Not exactly mapping, but it works. Seems that this problem has been around for many OS's and that it should be fixed by now!

 

[DaFlake]

The problem is that many of Windows users aren't used to not having a ton of backend processes doing things for them. In Windows there is a process that does this and it eats up memory and cpu time. UNIX does not do this to save those resources. Honestly it takes me about two seconds to reconnect to my drive.

 

[DarkestRitual]

Yea, of course if you just have your "shared" section on the left hand bar in the finder, your NAS should pop up there for you.

I love how no one asked what kind of router this dude was using anyway.

 

[wcalderw]

Perhaps the approach to solve the problem is wrong.

Everyone is trying to approach the problem from a windows (map a drive) or mac (temp user mount) perspective. How about a Unix solution (OSX is Unix, right...)

To have a file system mounted when the machine starts modify the fstab file under etc. I don't have a mac nor am I that familiar with it, but most "unix" type systems have a permanent table that is used to auto mount drives at a system level instead of the user level approaches that have been talked about.

Just a thought.

I'm going to try this here on our IOS build servers, which we have seen a similar issue described on this thread.

 

[RadDave]

Everyone is trying to approach the problem from a windows (map a drive) or mac (temp user mount) perspective. How about a Unix solution (OSX is Unix, right...)

To have a file system mounted when the machine starts modify the fstab file under etc. I don't have a mac nor am I that familiar with it, but most "unix" type systems have a permanent table that is used to auto mount drives at a system level instead of the user level approaches that have been talked about.

Just a thought.

I'm going to try this here on our IOS build servers, which we have seen a similar issue described on this thread.

Hello and welcome to the forum! I'm sure that you realized this thread was started back in 2009 w/ the last post was in 2010 nearly 4 years ago - hope to see you posting but to some more current thread(s) - just saying. Dave

 

[chscag]

To have a file system mounted when the machine starts modify the fstab file under etc. I don't have a mac nor am I that familiar with it, but most "unix" type systems have a permanent table that is used to auto mount drives at a system level instead of the user level approaches that have been talked about.

Bad advice. It's OK to mess with that file when running Linux (I did it all the time when running Ubuntu and Mepis) but it's a no no with OS X. And besides as was pointed out, the thread is over 4 years old.