Lazily mount network file systems
autofs and automount

Consider using autofs directly to handle the lazy mounting and unmounting of network drives. The automount manual page explains more.

Apple published Autofs: Automatically
Mounting Network File
Shares in Mac OS X to help administrators set autofs up.

autofs has the benefit of being silent to the user and connects on-demand, instead of at login.

I published setup-autofs to help a customer set up an autofs based connection between their Mac and a Windows shared drive. Once set up, the autofs approach has been resilient.