Wishlist: Network shares that automatically reconnect
The one feature I really want in Tiger this Friday.
There should be no need to manually reconnect
network drives every time I reboot the network or restart the
iBook.
Windows handles this network function far more sensibly -- it looks for mapped drives and if they are unavailable it gracefully and unobtrusively informs the user by changing the drives' icon. OS X has a hernia every time my Airport link drops out for more than a few seconds.
Steve, are you listening? Network plumbing like this is not flashy like an automatic search feature and it won't make a crowd collectively inhale when you demonstrate it at Macworld. But every time a customer boots their network, or their link reactivates, they will breathe a quiet "thank you".
A half-way solution is to connect to the shared drive and drop it on the dock. Next time the drive's dock icon is clicked on, the share will show the login screen and then restart. But this is still less intuitive than in Windows.
Fix network share reconnection and I will be very happy. I shouldn't have to pay $US49 for a feature that should be standard in the operating system.
Windows handles this network function far more sensibly -- it looks for mapped drives and if they are unavailable it gracefully and unobtrusively informs the user by changing the drives' icon. OS X has a hernia every time my Airport link drops out for more than a few seconds.
Steve, are you listening? Network plumbing like this is not flashy like an automatic search feature and it won't make a crowd collectively inhale when you demonstrate it at Macworld. But every time a customer boots their network, or their link reactivates, they will breathe a quiet "thank you".
A half-way solution is to connect to the shared drive and drop it on the dock. Next time the drive's dock icon is clicked on, the share will show the login screen and then restart. But this is still less intuitive than in Windows.
Fix network share reconnection and I will be very happy. I shouldn't have to pay $US49 for a feature that should be standard in the operating system.
Posted: Sat - April 23, 2005 at 11:47 AM
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