2) Setting Up Automatic Connections to the Network Drive on Login

Next, you add the network drive to automatically connect on OS X by bringing it into your Login Items list. Choose Guest or for a specific user check the box next to “Remember this password in my keychain” – you must select to remember the password otherwise the automatic login event can not happen without logging into the network drive.Connect to the server and mount the drive you want to automatically connect to on boot.From the OS X desktop, pull down the “Go” menu and select “Connect to Server”.If you’re already familiar with mapping a network drive in Mac OS X you can skip the first part of this and go straight to System Preferences in the second section.

This should work flawlessly in most versions of OS X, but we’ll cover an alternative approach that uses Automator to mount a network drive automatically on login as well.

Setting up automatic network drive connections in OS X is a two-step process, you must mount the drive, then you add it to your automatic login items.

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