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on the preferences page, there is a checkbox "Start ConnectMeNow on system startup", but when I try to check it on, it has no effect. If I need privilege escalation, I would expect to be prompted for it, but it's not.
I also tried checking the "password protect Preferences menu option and clicking Admin: save, but that didn't change it.
having ConnectMeNow start up with the system (before any user attempts login) is very desireable because if the home directories aren't mounted when the user attempts login, the system will hang.
Totally agree that it's convenient and (in my case any way) critical to have it start at login and apologies that ity is not adding it.
MacOS is supposed to ask your permission when you set this option - mine (of course 😉) runs at startup just fine. Maybe you did get the request from you Mac and accidentally clicked it away. It happens to me at times as well, since macOS's messages aren't always clear what the heck they are used for.
You can check if ConnectMeNow is listed under - System Settings... - General - Login Items - Open at Login. (with the "+" button you can add it manually as well, even though it should work)
Note: in ConnectMeNow (just tried it on my setup), toggling the "Start ConnectMeNow on system startup" should either show one or more messages. Something about a background task, and/or scripting being allowed - clicking the message brings you to the login items that I mentioned before. p.s. The scripting is used to tell macOS to add or remove ConnectMeNow to the login items.
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