Best way to permanently mount SMB shares

I've heard putting together an AppleScript that mounts the SMB drive and then adding it to the startup items in the 'Accounts' section of the 'System Preferences' works pretty well. Something like:

tell application "Finder"
open location "smb://user:password@server/share"
end tell

robot1125 wrote:
I would like to know the best way to mount an external SMB share (my NAS) on my MBP.

An external NAS should mount just like any other volume. Are there any admin tools that let you manage it directly?

Have you surfed the 'net for your specific device to see what other users are saying....lots of NAS wind up being not so OS X friendly AFAIK.

I think that V.K. mentioned mounting a share and then making an alias to it. At least the alias would be there on boot. Other than this perhaps this procedure, putting the share in login items is the best way to have it appear on login. Otherwise shares have a tendency to come and go under Shared in Sno.

robot1125 wrote:
I would like to know the best way to mount an external SMB share (my NAS) on my MBP. I've seen various solutions to this, and they all usually revolve around adding login items that reference the share.

I think there should be an easier way that just purely mounts the share at boot regardless of anyone logging in.

easier? hardly. using login items is certainly the easiest. you can try using autofs or /etc/fstab as describe in this link.
http://rajeev.name/blog/2007/11/23/autofs-goodness-in-apples-leopard-105-part-ii /
not something i'm very familiar with personally. in particular I don't know how this will work with several users logged in at the same time.'

Anyone know how?

I guess that would depend on the NAS. I'm using a ReadyNAS from Netgear and it just shows up in the Shared area in the left side of every finder window. Time Machine just uses it whenever it wants.

I'm allowing the NAS to use CIFS (SMB), AFP, and HTTP. Yesterday I got around to setting up the built-in Torrent client. Sweet. Next, the web server service...

In the ReadyNAS setup I told it to advertise itself by using Bonjour.

Some NAS drives are friendly with MacOS, others may need special login treatments.