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First, thanks to [[User:Azral|Azral]] !

The solution is to create a startupitem in /Library/StartupItems/.  the first example is for those with sharity light installed already, and there's an alternative at the bottom for afp_mount.

First off, create a catalog (in this case named "MountStuff" but a name of your choosing should suffice - rename files/parameters if you change name), with a command like

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sudo mkdir /Library/StartupItems/MountStuff
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inside it, make two files:

File '''MountStuff''' containing:

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/shlight '//Storage/DISK 2' /Users/frontrow/Movies/disk -U pcguest -P pcguest 
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File '''StartupParameters.plist''' containing:
<pre>

{
  Description = "MountStuff";
  Provides = ("Mounts");
  Requires = ("Network");
  OrderPreference = "None";
}
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Don't forget to clean up permissions/ownership with something like:

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sudo chmod +x /Library/StartupItems/MountStuff
chown -R root:wheel /Library/StartupItmes/MountStuff
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And thats about it! Now it mounts my share(s) on startup. (:

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alternatively, if you have installed the mount_afp hack, make the MountStuff file contain something of this format:

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#!/bin/sh
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@servername/share" ~/mountpoint/  # for guest log ins
mount_afp afp://username:password@servername/ ~/mountpoint/    #for password access

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