24 Hours of Leopard: AutoFS

To be fair, this has always been an issue with almost EVERY operating system - not just OS X. It's not a simple problem to solve. I've seen Linux brought to its knees many times when a network drive became unavailable. I'd love to see other OSes pick this up, but depending on how its licensed that may be an issue (not to mention that Linux already has an existing utility named autofs, which is a somewhat different beast).

Of course it is good to hear they have finally fixed this bug.
Although I don't understand why this has not been fixed earlier and made available to Tiger users.
Perhaps "299 new features in Leopard" would not sound as good as 300

to robert and luclodder:

FTP mounts are still read-only. Waah. : ( At least the good guys at Panic will be happy that Transmit is still needed!

thank god they finally fixed this. One of those "little things" that really makes a difference.

@robert: yes you can... ftp from finder works like a charm.

Hooray! Just this week I had to wait 10 minutes for my MacBook to unfreeze from this. Every app was beachballed waiting for this one file access to time out.

If this really works, the windows sys ad @ my work will be so happy. no more of my angry complaints

THANK YOU LORD!!!! It works GREAT!!! I remember before I knew why, whenever my other computer fell asleep, the finder spazed out, and nothing would quit, or open...just bounce...and that freaking beach ball...

SO ONCE AGAIN...WAHHOOOOO

Thank God, finally! For me, this is the #1 reason to upgrade to Leopard. I can't believe they left it unfixed since OSX first appeared.

Yay! That used to annoy me so much when I worked in an office and would forget to disconnect from the server before leaving for the night. Then I'd open the lid at home and wait forever while it figured out that the network wasn't there anymore. Finally!