MacOS Ventura - how to make the equivalent of mapped drives?

[HCHTech]

I don't do a lot with Macs, but I know I've made this work before. I have a client with a mix of Macs and PCs. They have a Synology NAS for centralized storage with several different shared folders accessible based on the user (authentication is required).

I spent an hour yesterday with a new iMac (on Ventura) trying to either get a consistent listing in Finder for 3 or 4 shared folders on the NAS, or make desktop shortcuts. The connect-to-server thing works, but is reset on reboot so the connections aren't permanent. There is a checkbox in that process for "remember in keychain" and I'm thinking that this must be the place where it is supposed to be remembered or not, but regardless of whether I check that box or not, the connection disappears on a reboot.

Once the drive is mounted, I can also drag it to the Finder sidebar, but again, this is reset on reboot so it's not a permanent action. What am I missing?

 

[Markverhyden]

First just to confirm you have verified read AND write to all shares?

Mount all the shares like you have been doing.

System Preferences>Users>the current login should be the highlighted user>unlock using the lower left padlock(need account password)>click login items>you should be able to drag each mapped share desktop shortcut into the large window>when done click the lock to finalize. Then reboot. Just like in MS OS's upon reboot it may take as long as 60 second for those maps to populate on the desktop. If you put them in the favorites side they'll eventually show up there.

 

[HCHTech]

Ok, thanks - I think I was missing one of those steps. I'm going back over this afternoon to do this again on a 2nd new Mac, so I'll let you know how it goes. Do you know if this process has changed with Ventura or Monterey?

 

[timeshifter]

What Microsoft calls a Shortcut, Apple calls an Alias.

 

[Markverhyden]

Ok, thanks - I think I was missing one of those steps. I'm going back over this afternoon to do this again on a 2nd new Mac, so I'll let you know how it goes. Do you know if this process has changed with Ventura or Monterey?

Looks the same on my MBAir running Monterey.