Hi Nicolas,

I'd be happy to implement connecting over Bonjour, but I'm not sure how to.
As far as I know, Bonjour is mostly used to advertise services.

ConnectMeNow uses one of two mounting options: the macOS API and the Terminal style "mount".
Did you try both (under advanced options of each individual share)?

To be honest I've never seen Finder mount anything instantly - seeing the shares on my NAS takes already 2-3 seconds (macOS Sequoia M1 Max). I'm pretty confident Finder utilities the same API ConnectMeNow uses (per Apple Developer documentation).

Having said that, I'd love to see a faster mounting mechanism.
Do you have any reference/documentation that could be useful?
I've never looked in the details of Bonjour before on a developer level.

hello Hans

Thanks for your reply. The main issue beside connection time is the fact that the monted server appears as a different server

 As you can see in this screenshot.

"Serveur-Magenta" (with the macpro icon) is the server as seen by the mac as usual. (I assume via Bonjour services)

"Serveur-Magenta.local" is the one connected with Connectmenow. I have to specify the ".local" in connectmenow share definition otherwise it doesn't find the server.

If I put the IP address I'll get a connected server whose name is the ip address.

That mean than anything pointing on the network share won't work because the server name differs even if it's the same server.

As said I don't know how Automounter works but it does not behave like this when connecting this same server on the same machine. I get connected the usual way. (there is an option by default "using bonjour" to connect) The problem is that Automounter doesn't store password so I have to enter them at each connection. It's why I would prefer to use Connectmenow.

I was wondering if you had any idea on this

Here my share settings. I've maybe done that wrong

Thanks

I cannot see my NAS in Finder, unless I go to "Networks" (NAS is called Marvin)

Note: I do recall older macOS versions list server. Not sure if Finder under Sequoia can do this, or if I have changed something way back when. Tried looking for a setting, but couldn't find anything.

How the name appears is, as far as I know, not something I can change. Unless I learn/figure out how mounting through the Bonjour service would work.

Long story short: right now ConnectMeNow doesn't support this, and I will have to figure how to get it to do this. 😞 

Hello Hans

Thanks for your feedback. The server appears in the left pane once you have connected to it once. I think you have to tick bonjour computer and connected server in finder pref :

 Let me know if you find something about this :)

Thank you

I still have to dig into the details, but as far as I can see Bonjour only helps find a server/share, but doesn't do the actual mounting.
Still have to read all this in the Apple Bonjour Documentation to make sure I understood this correctly.
Due to family issues, it may take a bit before I get to reading this, but I'll do my best 😊