Stop reconnecting by hand.
Add your shares once. Shareline takes it from there.
Shareline keeps your file server shares mounted. It checks each server, shows you how the connection is doing, and quietly reconnects after sleep, Wi-Fi hops and server restarts.
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Every share gets its own tile: a status light, a latency trace from the last few minutes, a free-space ring and buttons to open or eject it.
Save shares as addresses like smb://you@nas/Projects. Shareline mounts them under /Volumes and opens them in Finder.
A quick TCP handshake to each server every few seconds measures latency. Two misses in a row and the server is marked offline.
When a server returns, after wake from sleep or when the network changes, shares set to “Keep connected” come back by themselves.
If a mounted share stops answering, Shareline flags it before Finder spins, and can force-eject it for you.
Group shares into Office, Home or VPN. Switching connects the set and can eject the shares that don’t belong.
Get a heads-up when a share drops and when it recovers. The activity log keeps a timeline of every event.
Passwords are stored as Internet passwords in your login keychain, the same place Finder keeps them. Or have Shareline ask each time.
The add sheet lists file servers advertising on your local network over Bonjour, so you don’t have to remember host names.
A menu bar popover for daily use, a full window for managing shares, light and dark mode, and an option to open at login.
Each share follows a small set of rules, so it never hammers a dead server and never waits longer than it needs to.
Servers are checked on a schedule you choose. Mounted shares are also asked for their free space, which doubles as a “still alive?” test.
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A drop, an unreachable server or a share that stops answering is logged once and announced once — no notification storms.
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Retries start after 5 seconds and double each time, up to a ceiling you set. Wrong passwords stop retries instead of locking your account.
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The moment the server answers again, or after wake or a network change, the share is mounted straight away and you get a “back” notice.
Back online
Eject a share yourself and Shareline respects it: no reconnecting until you mount it again. Volumes you mounted elsewhere are only ever watched, never ejected.
SMB (Windows, most NAS boxes and other Macs), AFP, NFS and WebDAV over HTTP or HTTPS — the protocols macOS itself can mount. Shareline uses Apple’s own mounting framework, so a share that works in Finder’s “Connect to Server” works here.
In your login keychain as Internet passwords for the server and user name, the same format Finder uses. Shareline never writes them anywhere else. Turn on “Ask for the password every time” to keep nothing at all.
Checking whether a server is reachable and listing servers on your network both talk to devices on your local network, which macOS asks you to allow once. Shareline only opens a connection and closes it; it doesn’t read or send data during checks.
No. Volumes you didn’t save in Shareline appear under “Mounted elsewhere” for reference. Profiles only ever eject saved shares, and only when you turn that option on for the profile.
Not at the moment. Reading the Wi-Fi network name requires location access, so profiles are switched from the menu bar instead.
Shareline is distributed directly from this website. Here’s how to open it the first time.
Add your shares once. Shareline takes it from there.