Keeping Network drives mounted on Mac

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Here is how I configured my system and the network shares never drop off when the MAC or NAS go to sleep nor do the shares drop off when I reboot.

1) Edit your auto_master file located in /etc

sudo nano /etc/auto_master

/NAS_Shares     NAS_mounts

ctrl o

hit "enter" key

ctrl x

2) Create the NAS_mounts file in /etc

sudo nano /etc/NAS_mounts

Movies -fstype=smb smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@NASIPADDRESS/SHAREPATHONNAS

Television -fstype=smb smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@NASIPADDRESS/SHAREPATHONNAS

ctrl o

hit "enter" key

ctrl x

3) Activate changes to the system

sudo automount -vc

Try that and see if it works for you.

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I've followed Mike McCurdy's instructions, but I'm having trouble with this: It says that it mounts successfully, but I can't navigate to the drive. I get this instead:

jens-hackpro:etc $ cd /mnt
 
jens-hackpro:mnt$ ls -l
total 2
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  4 Jul  5 22:16 NAS
 
jens-hackpro:mnt$ cd NAS
 
jens-hackpro:NAS$ ls -l
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root    1 Jul  5 22:17 NAS_Media
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root    1 Jul  5 22:17 NAS_Pictures
 
jens-hackpro:NAS $ ls -al NAS_Media/
ls: : No such file or directory
 
jens-hackpro:NAS $ ls -al NAS_Pictures/
ls: : No such file or directory
 
 
They look like directories, the NAS is listing the directories in my auto_nfs file as being available, I just can't cd to them:
bash-3.2$ showmount -e
Exports list on :
/eSATADisk1                                                
/Qmultimedia  <= This is the one I'm trying to link                         
/Qdownload                           
/Public                              
/Pictures                            
/Network Recycle Bin 1                           
/Documents                           
 

Here is the df after I run the automount -vc:

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2     60G    42G    17G    71%    /
devfs           190k   190k     0B   100%    /dev
map -hosts        0B     0B     0B   100%    /net
map auto_home     0B     0B     0B   100%    /home
/dev/disk0s3     60G    53G   6.9G    89%    /Volumes/Untitled
/dev/disk1s2     60G    37G    23G    63%    /Volumes/BootClone
/dev/disk1s3    249G    27G   222G    11%    /Volumes/OSX Data
/dev/disk1s4    190G    69G   122G    37%    /Volumes/Win7 Data
map auto_nfs      0B     0B     0B   100%    /mnt/NAS
bash-3.2$ cd /
 
Anyone have Ideas? Thanks!
Spool
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All,

  I used to GUI method using DiskUtility from this site http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/mounting-nfs-volumes-in-os-x/ and it seems to be mounting. I blind followed the writer's options suggestions, and it seems to be working so far. For my education, what is the difference in the two methods--I'd assume DU is editing the mount config files somewhere. Might it have something to do with the  resvport,nolocks,locallocks,intr,soft,wsize=32768,rsize=3276 options?

Hope for an educational reply!

Spool

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For what it's worth, I use Keyboard Maestro to run a script at boot, and then every hour thereafter, to run an Applescript to mount my necessary drives.

The script is:

tell application "Finder"
	try
		mount volume "smb://QNAP(SMB)._smb._tcp.local/Multimedia"
		mount volume "smb://QNAP(SMB)._smb._tcp.local/NAS TV"
	end try
end tell

Of course, you would need to change your drive assignments to match whatever setup you have.

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I found that my issue involved fast user switching...  if I login into another user, it disconnects all drives...

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@kaseri , it’s brilliant! Worked like a charm! Thank you!

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Sorry for thread necromancy but I can’t get this to work.

I see my share names within /mnt/NAS but they’re empty folders, should they be mapping to my NAS volumes somehow?

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This works for me - http://blog.grapii.com/2015/06/keep-network-drives-mounted-on-mac-os-x-using-autofs/ . Make sure to use sudo before command as only root user can write files in /etc folder.

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There seems to be a few of these apps on the store, can you point me to the one you are specifically using. Thanks

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The one that @Dinga was using 6 years ago was called exactly as he typed it: Drive Mounter. However, it is no longer available through the app store.

Which macOS version are you using?

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Mac OSX 10.13.6 High Sierra.

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Sorry I missed this update and I meant to ask, how are you mounting the drives currently?

If you’re not doing it already, maybe something like this:

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I can get the drives to mount on log in, no problem with that. It is when say an update is done to my NAS box and a restart is required. Once the Mac Mini loses the connection, I would like something that would search out the Mounts ever “X” minutes or seconds to see about reconnecting those mounts.

I think I found one in the form of Disk Mount which I found on Macrumors and then in the App store… Testing it out now and it seems to be working…

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