Automatic Drive Mapping in OS X

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Last updated: Nov 20, 2012Version comment

Note:

This was moved over from internal documentation and may be horribly out of date. Please feel free to update/delete!.

Instructions on how to map the P and Q drive shares on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard. These
instructions also probably work in older versions, but is untested.

  1. Follow UIT's instructions to map the drive initially.
  2. Make sure that the share's icon is visible on the desktop (you may have to enable the view options
    in Finder to see network shares on the desktop).
  3. Open System Preferences and select Accounts
  4. Once in the desired user's account settings, go to the Login Items tab. You will see a list of login
    programs with their icons.
  5. Drag the share from the desktop to this list (note: the share's icon located in a Finder window will
    not work, it must come from the desktop)

*Test by logging off and back in. There is no way to suppress the share's window from popping up at
logon, even if hide is checked from the Login Items window.*

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