Automatically Mount An Apple "AirDisk"

Wed, 02/20/2008 - 22:52 — The Computer Au...

The regular readers of Computer Audiophile are well aware that I often recommend connecting an external hard drive to the Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. This removes the sound of the hard drive from your listening room and can clean up the look of your equipment rack. For those of you using this configuration and still running OS X Tiger you can mount the AirDisk automatically through the airport disk utility. If you've upgraded to OS X Leopard you may have noticed that the airport disk utility has disappeared and with it went the ability to auto mount an AirDisk. After wasting time trying to figure out an Apple supported solution I decided to create my own auto-mount application through the Apple Automator. What follows are my step by step instructions with screenshots for creating your own Automator application and launch it at startup. If you want to skip most of this feel free to download the Automator app that I've created.

Step 01. Open the Apple Automator application and chose Custom.

Step 02. Select Files & Folders in the far left column and Get Specified Servers in the middle column.

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Step 03. Drag Get Specified Servers over to the right column.

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Your screen should now look like this.

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Step 04. Click Add and enter the IP address of your Airport Extreme Base Station in this format. If you don't know the IP address of your AEBS open the airport utility and the address will be displayed on the opening page.

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Select OK and your screen should look like this.

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Thu, 02/21/2008 - 12:45 — Innertuber

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This is exactly where I got

This is exactly where I got to last weekend. I got everything set up direct off the Macbook. Moved iTunes library and fiddled a bit. Moved the harddisks to the airport base and voila! Nut-n-honey. Read and searched, found a Drobo solution and as always your timing is perfect.

Thanks Chris.

Wed, 03/26/2008 - 07:05 — spotcatbug

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You can put volumes in the login items

How is this solution better than simply dragging the network volume itself into the login items list?

Mon, 04/07/2008 - 12:44 — The Computer Au...

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Because that will bring up

Because that will bring up the volume window in finder every time you login. I would rather spend a little time up front to get rid of the annoyance. But, if you don't mind it then you're all set with that method.

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