At home I use my MacBook Pro on my own WiFi network and routinely mount several volumes from a RAID attached to my AirPort Base station. I like to have my MBP automatically mount the volumes on startup.
In the past I have dragged their locations into my startup items so they would auto-mount, but this causes problems when I startup my MBP on other WiFi networks where my RAID is not available. Finder searches and searches for the drives and sometimes hangs.
What I would like to do is somehow have my MBP detect which WiFi network its on at startup and only if connected to my home network attempt to mount the RAID volumes.
Is this possible with Apple/Shell script or some 3rd party software?
Best Answer
MarcoPolo is a really cool peice of software for having your computer figure out where it is based upon a large number of criteria (which WiFi is visisble, which monitor is hooked up, etc.) and then take actions (including mounting network disks) based upon that information.
I use it for switching certain settings based on whether I am at home or at work, and it works really, really well.
Best of all, it's free.