Like most Apple Mac users this week, I updated from 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion of Apples operating system. Everything seemed to go fine, I noticed a few little quirks, but the one that gave me the biggest “Oh no, can I go back!?” was when I tried mounting my AFP share on my FreeNAS server.
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So I’ve finally got around to building my NAS. It’s a pretty 12TB FreeNAS using RAIDZ…she runs very nicely 🙂 At first, I was using SMB, but found the performance from AFP better, that’s for another post though. For the life of me, I couldn’t find the “Mac” way of auto mounting an AFP share. So being the sysadmin ninja that I am, I just went along and did it my own way.
Luckily for us, the pretty OSX frontend sits on top of a UNIX backend. In short, I ended up using autofs, and it works rather well. Below is how to get it working.
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