Other problem which I hadn't anticipated is that the NAS drive cannot be backed up via time machine either. Firstly we use backblaze as a cloud backup and that will not back up a nas drive unless I pay for a dedicated version which is an option but wanted to explore other options first. back up strategy has now gone out the window so I need a new plan.ΔΆ problems. Maybe as good a place as any to ask though. To that end I bought automounter for a tenner on the app store and that has got it all singing along nicely. Was keen to get it to mount automatically and remount if connection ever failed. The moving around networks shouldn't cause an issue, even with a couple of network drops it should re-establish the connection and auto login won't matter about that anyway unless you log out/log in every itme your laptop changes networks. I just use the Cmd+K when I login to map the drive, I keep it as a history item so it's always there. I'll worry about working from other networks another day! I'm hoping I can get this set up where I can just forget about it and the NAS is always just sat there as if it were a drive. The other thing is, that as you move around the house, it will hand over from one access point to another and it will not auto reconnect after. my daughter quite regularly lets the battery run down to zero so it does get a 'forced' restart from time to time. Should have mentioned the reasons I want to auto-reconnect. Timemachine not on the cards at the moment though I did think that if I get this set up ticking along okay, I may end buying another dedicated NAS for time machine as well. I didn't want to go down the apple route as I wanted to be able to access that volume from a PC as well. Can you just expand in this for me? Are you saying that you just manually reconnect the nas if you ever have to restart? I am on SMB too rather than apple file sharing. You won't need to worry about a mapped drive for the tiemmachine backup if you are using that, it will establish the connection when the backup kicks off.Cheers. I also use it on SMB and not bother with apple file sharing. I usually don't bother having it map automatically and use the Cmd+K route to map the drive. If I just then manually map the drive again (connect to server in mac speak I think) it connects absolutely fine. The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. In login items, I have added the 'storage' volume on the NAS drive but when I restart the computer I get an error message along the lines of 'there was a problem connecting to the server "xxxxNAS". I cannot get it to reconnect after a restart. I have mapped the drive fine and it works. On my Macbook Air M1 (2020), which is the computer I really want this to work with, I have a problem. I can restart the laptop and it will bring the mapped drive up each time. I've set up a general 'storage' volume on the drive via the synology software/portal and have successfully mapped the drive on my other laptop which is a Dell. I have plugged the NAS into the same POE switch. That feeds a POE switch that has 3x Unifi AP's plugged into to give us wifi around the house. Our home network set up is a 4g huawei router with EE sim. Last week I bought a used Synology DS218J with 2x 8tb drives and have set it up as raid1 for the time being. The problem with that is to use the macbook anywhere else in the house either required carrying a drive with it or leaving the drive unplugged which was starting to cause some issues if software was still open and could not find reference files. Lots of large files so we were using an external hard drive. The driver for doing this was that our 'main' computer is a macbook air and it's used a lot for photos via Lightroom and video editing with imovie etc. I'm dipping my toe into the world of NAS drives.
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