Yesterday I posted a how-to on preventing volumes from mounting when you boot, the near opposite it todays topic.

How to automate the mounting of filesystems of any of the following type AFP, FTP, HTTP, NFS, and SMB. How cool to be able to easily mount a volume on your desktop for not just network drives off various computer flavors, but also FTP and HTTP. Slick!

Disclaimer, I had great success and ease using this to mount my Windows LAN, I spent about 1 minute trying to mount the MacSeven.com ftp site just to test it out, and I wasn't successful. Since it was only a test I didn't pursue further - your mileage with FTP mounting may vary.

Update: AutomountMaker actually connects great to the MacSeven.com FTP - I had a setting wrong, on the "Volume" Setting I had an incorrect entry, by just leaving it blank it connects great and puts the mounted drive right on my desktop, very cool.

AutomountMaker is just the tool to make this happen. I used AutomountMaker to automate the mounting of a volume on a Windows computer on my LAN, so I used the SMB protocol. It's very easy to save pre-defined connections that you can run on demand, or you can launch any of the presets so that you can mount the volumes when you boot.

If you like it, DiggIT.