Mount Drives that are connected to an Imac on my mac pro

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Mount Drives that are connected to an Imac on my mac pro

Hi guys

I'm trying to share a external 1TB drive that is connected to my iMac as well as share some directories on the iMac ---> MacBook Pro. I've went through the sharing configuration panel, however they appear under Shared/computer_name and i'd have to login to be able to access those files, what i wanted to do is to be able to mount those drives as virtual drives on the laptop or just create a sym link from the a directory in the laptop to the dirs that i want shared on the imac.. Can you guys point me in the right direction?

luke

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 22, 2009 4:07 PM

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Answer 1

rccharles

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Oct 22, 2009 5:49 PM in response to Luke Trif

I have recommended SharePoints in the past, but it may not be supported any more.
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

Robert

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Luke Trif Author

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Oct 30, 2009 7:59 AM in response to rccharles

This doesn't seem to work, when i try to create a share, it crashes, however creates the share, but once i shutdown/sleep the laptop the share disappeared. Isn't there a command that i can run at startup something like "mount (computername/folder)" etc ?

Thanks

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j.v.

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Oct 31, 2009 9:29 AM in response to Luke Trif

Can you create it as a mount point in the iMac's System Preferences > Sharing, then unlock the padlock, check the "file sharing" checkbox, click the "\+" under "shared folders," navigate to and select the external drive, then click the "\+" under "users," and add the desired user, group, and anyone access privileges?

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Luke Trif Author

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Oct 31, 2009 9:42 AM in response to j.v.

I've done that already but they are showing up in the finder under shared under (computer name). What i wanted to do is have the drives show up in finder in my documents or in hard drive. Sharepoints worked it created the share and came up as a mounted drive however once i restarted or the computer hibernated, that drive disappeared.

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j.v.

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Nov 1, 2009 9:05 AM in response to Luke Trif

In the menubar, Finder > Preferences > General, do you have "external disks" checked?

Once displayed on your desktop as a remotely mounted drive, after having logged in and selected the desired folder to be mounted, drag the icon to the dock. That should let you have a single-click on demand volume mount.

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