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Jay
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7-Oct-2005, 6:57 AM
Here's a puzzler: how do I get a Windows network share to mount on startup?

Only my main workstation is a Mac. I have two Windows machines on my network. All drives are shared with all machines.

I created an Automator application that uses an AppleScript I found online that tells the Finder to mount the share drives. If I double-click on the app, it mounts the drives just fine. However, when I place it in my login item list, it runs, but the drives don't mount.

I can see the app executing at startup in the upper right-hand corner (not sure what to call this, seems like the Windows equivalent is the System Tray). My suspicion is that it's executing before my network connection is active, so it's not seeing the shares.

I realize I can run the app manually to mount the drives, but I'd really like to automate it because the sites I build in Dreamweaver are stored on my Windows-based development server. Every time I start Dreamweaver it says it can't find the folder. If the shares would mount automatically at startup, I wouldn't get that error.