Keeping Appleshare volumes mounted

Keep-It-Up can mount Appleshare (AS) volumes automatically at startup without the need to enter passwords.  Keep-It-Up-X will also attempt to remount the volumes at regular intervals should the Mac become disconnected from the AS server. KIU-X will also send e-mail notifications to keep you informed of successful or failed mount attempts.

To enable the KIU-X Automounter, follow these steps:

1. mount all necessary AS volumes on your desktop
2. launch KIU and select Appleshare -> Record Volumes
3. for each AS volume, KIU-X will now ask you to enter the related password. Beware: at this stage, KIU-X does not verify that the password is correct.
4. remove all the AS volumes from the desktop and select Appleshare->Mount Volumes to test that all volumes mount correctly. Check the KIU log file for any error messages.
5. from now on, KIU-X will monitor these volumes and automatically remount them when necessary. KIU-X will check all volumes every 2 minutes.
6. Choose Appleshare -> Clear Volumes to remove all volumes from the automounter list.

Important notes:

• At startup, KIU will mount the volumes before doing anything else. This should allow you to use aliases for documents on remote volumes in the KIU Items folders.
  
• if KIU-X attempts to remount volumes when the AS server is unreachable or down, KIU-X may become unresponsive for up to 90 seconds/volume. During this time, you can not access the KIU-X web interface, nor the KIU-X menus. This does not mean that KIU-X has locked up. After a while, KIU-X will resume normal operations. To keep this from happening too frequently, KIU-X will double the time between remount attempts each time it is unsuccessful in remounting a volume (2nd attempt after 4 minutes, 3rd attempt after 8 minutes, etc...) with a maximum of 2 hours between attempts.

• KIU-X stores the AS passwords on your harddisk in an encoded way to ensure security. However, it is not entirely impossible for somebody who gets access to your harddisk to recover these passwords. If security is a major issue for you and untrusted people have access to your Mac, you should consider not using the automounter feature.
  

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