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Preventing filesystem from locking up when automount NFS share from VM goes away
I do a lot of web applications development, and I run a Fedora VM on my Mac to simulate the server environment. Meanwhile, I run the IDE on the Mac side, and it requires a local filesystem to make ...
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How to move the /Users to an encrypted ZFS drive?
When setting up a ZFS pool on an encrypted CoreStorage volume, a manual typing of the password is required each time for mounting the volume (due to the problem of OS X thinking that the password is ...
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HTC Sync Manager on Mountain Lion
I'm using a Mac Mini running on Mountain Lion, and I have a HTC One X phone.
Every time I plug the phone in via USB cable to charge up, the HTC Sync Manager pops up and autoplays - is there any way ...
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How do I create a network automount with Open Directory in 10.8 Server?
I am running Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" Server and using Open Directory to provide managed preferences and user accounts to the Macs on our local network.
Any AFP shares on the Open Directory ...
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fstab syntax for afp share with space and special characters?
I have a share on a netatalk server that exporting "Don's home" - I want to add to fstab so that it's handled by autofs as an indirect mount.
I've tried using %60 and %20, quoting, escaping with ...
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How do I disable autorun when I plug in a USB?
I have a mobile Internet stick that is connected through the USB. The annoying part is that the connection program automatically launches when I plug it in.
I prefer to connect to the Internet using ...
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Disable network drive unmounting
I've got a pretty specific need - to disable unmounting a network drive through the regular Finder eject function (accessed either by right-clicking the mounted drive on the desktop, or clicking the ...
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Mac OS X Server: automount encrypted drive before login
I have a 4TB Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) hard drive hanging off a Mac OS X Lion (soon to be Mountain Lion) Server that is dedicated to networked Time Machine backups.
I'd like to be able ...
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Synology Mac OS X startup mounting folders via NFS
A couple of years or so ago, I modified a script, according to a forum message, which would (I assume) automount the folders found on my Synology server, ie web, video, public, music, photo at startup ...
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Mount Windows share automatically with Active Directory credentials
In our environment we have a bunch of iMacs running Mountain Lion that are bound to Active Directory for authentication, and we also have a Windows share that we would like all Active Directory ...
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Is it a bad practice to mount network/slow shares under `/Volumes`?
I'm using curlftpfs with macfuse to mount some ftp sites through automount. The mount directories for each share is in /Volumes folder. Now iTunes on each startup tries to read ...
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How do I auto-mount a SMB share on OS X 10.8? [duplicate]
How do I auto-mount a SMB share on OS X ?
I know how to mount it using GUI: Cmd-K on Finder but I want a solution that would restore them after reboot/relogin.
This questions applies to latest OS X, ...
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how to re-mount USB drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I mount ejected external USB flash storage?
So, I plugged a USB drive.
Then ejected it.
But it's still connected to my machine.
is there a way to force a ...
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Why does OS X now think I have two partitions on my external USB drive (plus random connection issue)?
I have an external USB drive that I have plugged into a USB hub, which gets unplugged from my computer about once a day. Most of the time I remember to unmount the drive before disconnecting so that ...
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Problem to automount local volume
My HDD has the following partition structure:
System volume (mountpoint: /)
Volume 2 (default mountpoint, not in use)
Volume 3 (mountpoint: /Vol4/Vol3)
Volume 4 (mountpoint: /Vol4)
Volume 5 (default ...
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How to auto mount internal SATA hard disk drives after power failure/interruption?
In a Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) system with two internal SATA drives, the internal drives are connected via a Highpoint Rocketraid controller and are configured without any RAID thus operating in legacy ...
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How to automount SMB share in OS X
I am running OS X Lion. I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:
//darren:q@acid/home /acid smbfs nodev,nosuid,auto
If I run mount -a, the share mounts correctly, but if I just reboot the ...
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Prevent disk image automount when clicking Finder sidebar
I have been playing around with the View → View Options in Finder and I must have touched something crtitcal because now whenever I click on a folder in Finder it automounts a disk image located ...
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How to make ntfs-3g drive visible in Finder
I was using Tuxera NTFS for a while on my external drives but then my trial ran out.
So then I installed ntfs-3g from macports.
When I connect my external drive, OSX automatically mounts it, but it ...
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NFS mounts without automounter, which seems to grab everything
We have some NFS mounts we place in the fstab, via "vifs" which we want to manage separate of the autofs subsystem. The mounts were created in a separate location (/mnt) which should not be managed ...
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How can I automount a shared network drive for Time Machine backups?
At home, my primary computer is an iMac with an external USB hard drive. The external drive is shared so that other computers can use it for Time Machine. I have a MacBook Air that I take to work ...
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automount NFS when on specific wifi
I'd like to be able to mount an nfs NAS mount point whenever I connect to my home network and initiate an rsync to it.
I saw the post for "How can I automount afp volumes at startup? ", although there ...
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How does Mac OS X decide which volumes to mount? One of my disks doesn't mount at boot
I have four disks in my Mac Pro. The boot disk and two others mount when OS X starts but the fourth one does not. I can mount it in Disk Utility and it appears to be all right.
How can I tell Mac OS ...
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OSX Lion Disk Mounter
I seem to have broken something in my OSX Lion install. Whenever I insert a SD/CD-ROM into the machine I have to go into Disk Util to manually mount it. This happens quite a lot and is getting on my ...
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Built-in card reader in MacBook Pro doesn't work
As the title says, the built-in card reader in my MacBook Pro doesn't work. It simply doesn't do anything when I instert an SD card. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I guess one of the issues might be ...
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How can I stop OS X from automatically connecting to an NFS server on startup?
I upgraded to Lion today, but was having the same problem on Snow Leopard. When I start up my Mac and login, it automatically connects to an NFS server. I know this because I see the server in Finder ...
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Mounting cue/bin files
There are many suggestions on the internet on how to use cue/bin files on a Mac.
Is there a native way of mounting cue or bin files and seeing them as Volumes in Finder?
Alternatively, are there any ...
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How to run Applescript on Disk mount
I want to run an Applescript when I mount a specific disk. It isn't if the script is located on the disk or not, it should just run when OS X mounts the disk.
I tried to accomplish this with folder ...
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How can I unmount a drive every time I reboot?
As relates to an answer to a previous question, I'd like to unmount a built-in hard drive every time I boot up. (Or alternately arrange for it not to be mounted). How do I do this?
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How can I automount afp volumes at startup?
I bought a NAS to store my media files and I'd like to automount the volumes on startup. Currently I'm opening those volumes as a Login Item under System Preferences > Accounts.
This works, but it ...
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How can I get Automator to mount a network volume?
I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the ...
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How do I set up a Mac as a NIS client?
I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter.
$ cd etc
$ grep + /etc/auto_master
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How to automount a network share once OpenVPN has connected? (Using Tunnelblick)
Does anyone know how to automatically mount a network share once a VPN connection using Tunnelblick has connected?
Right now I have to connect and then do a cmd+K in the finder to connect to the AFP ...
