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Lion and network shares

  • 15-08-2011 10:21am
    #1
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭


    There was a small discussion about this in the main Lion thread but it's too long to find it now. I've 2 NAS drives at home, installed a fresh copy of Lion last night on my mbp and I now have no access to 1 of the drives. It's pretty old, have it about 5 or 6 years (old buffalo terastation) so there is little to no chance of a firmware update for it. It supports SMB and AFP but I can't connect with either. The NAS is showing up in finder with a monitor icon and says that it is not supported and to contact my sys admin.

    Anyone else have this issue?

    I came across this post and will give it a try this evening. It mentions logon being less secure, anyone know what the negative effects to running those commands might be?


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  • #2
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    I'm having a slighty different issue with my Drobo NAS. Can mount all share volumes no prob but they disconnect when I wake the mac even though the NAS is still available.


  • #3
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    I'm having a slighty different issue with my Drobo NAS. Can mount all share volumes no prob but they disconnect when I wake the mac even though the NAS is still available.

    hmm, I may also have that problem with the other NAS. Left iTunes scan my music from an NAS share over night and let it sleep afterwards. Only gave it a quick wake up this morning to see if it had completed ok but I noticed the share was no longer connected. Didn't think anything of it until now.


  • #4
    Stainless_Steel
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    Yeah it's rather annoying. For example iTunes tries to be smart and defaults to your local disk's home folder when the remote drive is unmounted.

    Also have my iMac running as a media server. All the media is on the NAS. If I want to stream something to apple TV I do a wake on LAN to the iMac. Used to work...now I have to go upstairs and remount the shared drive.


  • #5
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    Yeah it's rather annoying. For example iTunes tries to be smart and defaults to your local disk's home folder when the remote drive is unmounted.

    Also have my iMac running as a media server. All the media is on the NAS. If I want to stream something to apple TV I do a wake on LAN to the iMac. Used to work...now I have to go upstairs and remount the shared drive.

    That's annoying. Do you have an iPad or iPhone? You could set remote access to your iMac, create a script to mount the drives and launch it from iPhone/iPad using something like iSSH, or if you not too comfortable with terminal, screensharing and VNC viewer will do the trick as well. I have a similar setup and use both of these techniques depending on what I am doing so that I don't have to get off the couch :D


  • #6
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    I never thought about trying SSH....great idea thanks!


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  • #7
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    I never thought about trying SSH....great idea thanks!

    This might work for you, it's something I had in snow leopard to mount the drives at startup, also mounts them in Lion at startup. I haven't tested this to see if it will run after waking from sleep, but I had noticed that other apps I had in my "start on login" restarted on wakeup when I got home yesterday, so a good chance it will work.

    Start up Automator, select application as the option to save to, drag over "search for server", add your server paths (ie smb://xxx or afp://xxx), then drag over "connect to server" and save somewhere, I stuck mine under Application->Utilities. Then add the saved app to your login on start items under your user account in Preferences.

    <rant>
    The new Automator drove me mad last night, previously you could save a script, open the script again, modify the script and then save it as an app. But now they have no "save as" and that duplicate option is so sh*t. wtf were they thinking... ahhhh
    </rant>


  • #8
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Great thanks. Good quick way to mount drives

    I don't think it will run from wake up though. The reason your startup items are still running when you wake is because they are loaded into ram. They don't restart if you get me...just take up from where they left off. A way might be to have the app run every x minutes? Not familiar enough with automator to do that...and I don't know if it will error out if the shares are already mounted.


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