I've never played with this particular device, but often a NAS will have a configuration interface that lets you enable and disable certain network protocols. Might it be possible to tell the QNAP not to offer AFP?
Rather than mark the volume as a startup item, have you considered leaving an alias of it resident on your desktop, thereby delaying the connection attempt to the first time you try to access it? > On Nov 3, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Andrew Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have one of these, chosen for its silence, RAID with two 1 TB SSD disks, > connected to my MBP by ethernet. I did not want a NAS, just something that > would mount on my desktop without fuss. > > The Finder shows it twice, as HS210(SMB) and as HS210(AFP). > > Can I stop it showing the AFP? > > The HS210 has four folders, of which I want just the one (C18QS) to mount on > the desktop. > > When I specify it as a start-up item, System Preferences sees C18QS as a > Volume, and mounts it, but at the next start-up can no longer find it, “There > was a problem connecting…”. > > Is there any way of getting it to mount every time? > > (I’m prepared to change the HS210 for something simpler, but would need at > least four 1 TB SSDs and would like the whole business to be easily > transportable.) > > Thanks for any advice you can offer! > > AB > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
