Permanently mount SMB share in OSX
This is the how-to to permanently mount an SMB share in OSX. Permanently, like surviving a reboot. I have searched months for this! I won’t rehash the fact that this is just plain vanilla annoying and that there should be a checkbox “always have this sucker mounted” present in the OSX user interface. Duh!
These are the combined steps I have taken so far. Emptor caveat: I have not yet rebooted 🙂
[Update: I have rebooted, and this still works!]
>sudo vi /etc/auto_master # add "/-Â auto_smb -nosuid" >sudo vi /etc/auto_smb # add "/Users/username/mountPoint -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:password@serverIP/share" >sudo chmod 600 /etc/auto_smb >sudo automount -vc >sudo umount /Users/username/mountPoint >cd /Users/usersname/mountPoint
So far, finally:
