How I auto map my OSX drives -MarcoPolo

Over the last few months I have been brining my Macbook to work to augment my aging PC. One thing that has annoyed me is that there seems to be no simple way to make an auto map a drive to our windows file server.

So I was faced with a few options. Make a shell script, make an apple script, or Directory Utility if you are using Leopard. There are probably a few other ways too. But even with a script, I would still need to run it each day when I bring my Macbook to the office. And since I only reboot my Macbook every few months, I can't write a script and have it run at login/bootup.

Enter a really cool free app named, MarcoPolo. http://www.symonds.id.au/marcopolo/ This little app is amazing, "It allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated guess (rules), and then performing arbitrary actions upon changing context (actions)." That is a bit of a long winded way of saying, it can do many many things, one of them is map a network drive when it sees the Macbook has just joined my office's wireless network. The other things that MarcoPolo can do is just about limitless. You could have it run a back up script when a USB drive is plugged in or about 100 other things.

This thing is so handy I could see apple implementing it into future versions of the OS.