Automounting SMB/CIFS shares on Mac OS X

For my PVR/HTMAC project, I wanted to auto-mount several shares from my NAS. After some searching I ran across this hint¹ on the Mac OS X Hints² website, which works perfectly:

Basically, you add the shares you want to mount to the /etc/fstab file, with this syntax:

excalibur:/music x url net,automounted,url==cifs://guest:@excalibur/music 0 0
excalibur:/photos x url net,automounted,url==cifs://guest:@excalibur/photos 0 0
excalibur:/videos x url net,automounted,url==cifs://guest:@excalibur/videos 0 0

That way, those shares will allways be mounted under /Network/Servers, and always available, starting boot-time. Works like a charm ;)

1. Internet Archive snapshot. Original URL: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028194033157  ↩︎

2. Internet Archive snapshot. Original URL: http://www.macosxhints.com/  ↩︎