Speeding up browsing networked computers.

[iCameron]

So, i have a gigabit network (Speed is not an issue)

However, whenever i click here

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it takes about 30seconds before it displays the network drives?

Any idea's to speed this up? on Windows PC's it's a quick as i need it to be.. but OSX > Windows, it's VERY SLOW

Note: Im just talking about connecting to the server, not the transferring of files.

[macman_99]

Try using the connect window available in finder, if you're after a specific drive on that windows computer you can just use that.

Its available through Apple-K in finder, and just type in what you're connecting to as such:
SMB://wall-e/share

you can then create shortcuts to it on your desktop and dock if you want to avoid doing that repetitively.

[iCameron]

Sounds great...

Do you know how to do this with AppleScript so i can run at logon?

because that would be incredibly useful..

I know the basics, but would have no clue what the command would be. Also, is there a way to turn..

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Into a folder, or something so i dont have multiple networked drives clogging my desktop

I dont want to RAID my server, as it's a pain. but it's very annoying to have all those volumes on my desktop

I suppose what im looking for is Windows style networking. With the drives shown under a single Computer and not just mounted and dumped on the desktop..

As much as i love OSX, i have to say this is one aspect where i think Windows has it beat. I dont know why anyone would want to have 9 volumes from one networked computer dumped on their desktop

Why cant i have

Wall-E (Folder) > Networked Drives in this folder. on the desktop?

Mabye there is a simple way to do this and im just an idiot! any help is greatly appreciated.

[milliedog]

Not quite what you want, but you can set the finder preference not to show connected servers.