Guides

Keeping network shares, NAS folders, and recorders working on a Mac.

• How to automatically reconnect network shares on a MacmacOS mounts an SMB or NFS share once and doesn’t try again when the connection drops. Here are the ways to make shares come back on their own, and what each one misses.
• Why your Mac loses its NAS shares after sleepYou open the lid and the share on your Synology, TrueNAS, or Windows server is gone, or macOS says server connections were interrupted. What’s happening, and how to stop reconnecting by hand.
• Keep NAS shares mounted on a Mac at home and away (LAN and Tailscale)Use the fast local address at home and your Tailscale name everywhere else, without ejecting and reconnecting every time you leave the house.
• Copy recordings from a USB voice recorder to your NAS automatically on a MacPlug in the recorder and every recording lands on your NAS, checked byte for byte, with the recorder cleared and ejected. A manifest file makes it easy to feed a transcription pipeline.
• Send a screenshot from your Mac to a remote server (for Claude Code or Codex over SSH)When your coding agent runs on a server over SSH, pasting an image into the terminal doesn’t work. Put the file on a share both machines can see, and paste its path instead.