A little known tool baked into OSX is autofs, also available for Linux, which automatically mounts filesystems when they become available. This is useful for several reasons. Namely, it saves you from having to open the terminal and type a mount command, or mounting through finder’s connect to server dialog. Additionally, autofs should make OSX more fault tolerant in the event that the device becomes unreachable, although I have yet to test this in real world applications.
The end result.
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Introduction
About a year back, someone on reddit posted a very clever trick, running linux applications natively in OSX using a headless Debian virtual machine, connected to X11.app over ssh. I decided to replicate this on my own system, and finding documentation and guide lacking, I have decided to create my own for others wishing to follow in my footsteps.