Perfect, thanks Dan :)

Hen

On 5/3/05, Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the question, but wouldn't making an alias
> of a network drive and placing it on your desktop (or wherever)
> accomplish much the same thing? Especially if you clicked the Options
> button in the network connection dialogue and activated the "Add
> password to keychain" option to save your log-in password.
> 
> If you did that, the network drive/volume/folder would always appear as
> an icon on your desktop and all you would have to do is double-click it
> to mount that drive/volume/folder on your computer.
> 
> Dan
> 
> > Did I see something saying that Tiger had network mapped drives?
> >
> > That might be a Windows-only term. It's the ability to set Z: to be a
> > drive that is shared elsewhere on the network.
> >
> > In OS X, I would expect it to be like using the Finder->Go->Connect
> > Server and having the subsequent icon always appear on the desktop.
> > The same thing for the iDisk drive.
> >
> > Failing that, can I do it already with Panther? It's quite frustrating
> > to have to keep mounting the remote drive.
> >
> > Hen
> >
> >
> >
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