On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Doug Burton wrote:

>
>
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Dan wrote:
>
>>
>> At 7:38 PM -0500 11/7/2008, Doug Burton wrote:
>>> DA it's running 10.4.11 of course.
>>>
>>> To facilitate the volumes being mounted when starting Tiger I just
>>> dragged the icon to the startup items list.
>>
>> Essentially, that put an alias to the volume in the startupitems
>> folder.  That alias was then *opened* by Finder - the same as a
>> double-click action.  So it is intended and expected that it would
>> open the window.
>>
>> If you want the volume to mount on your desktop without opening the
>> window, then you'll need to do just that -- actually mount the
>> volume, not tell Finder mount and open it!  Do that with a shell or
>> applescript that runs disk utility.
>>
>> - Dan.
>
> Well, Bruce's script works, but it would be better if the windows
> didn't open at all so I'll give that a shot.  Thanks Dan.

Nope, they still open, unless I read what you wanted me to do wrong.   
I read via google about opening a shared drive directly from the  
login items preference, but I could not find how to do that.

Just a message from Doug...


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