Map a Drive. In the “ Finder“, select the “ Go” menu, select “ Connect to Server“.
Enter the address to where the resource is you wish to map in the “ Server Address” field. Smb://servername/foldername). Select the + button to save the Server Address to your list of “ Favorite Servers“.
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Enter the username and password that is required to access the resource. Check the “ Remember this password in my keychain” box if you wish to store the credentials for use at a later time. A new icon should appear on the desktop. That is your mapped network drive.
Automatically Connect Drives at Login. Perform the steps to map a drive as listed above in the “ Map a Drive” section. Open “ System Preferences” from the Dock. Choose “ Users & Groups“. Select the “ Login Items” option. Ensure the lock in the bottom-left corner is unlocked. Select it to change it if needed.
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Drag the mapped drives from the desktop to the “ Users & Groups” window. Check the “ Hide” box next to your mapped volume, otherwise a window will open automatically. The mapped drive will automatically connect at login from now on. Create Alias. Hold the “ Command” key and press “ K“.
Enter the address to where the resource is you wish to map in the “ Server Address” field. Smb://servername/foldername). Open the Finder “ Preferences” pane.
Make sure the box next to “ Connected Servers” under “ General” is checked. Right-click on the icon on your desktop representing the mounted drive. Choose “ Make Alias” (And optionally rename the drive to something more specific). Go back and uncheck the box next to “ Connected Servers”. Upon restart or disconnect, just double-click on the alias and it will remount. Thanks to Kevin for these steps. Filed Under: Tagged With: Reader Interactions.
+1 to kefob for correct path, but also note using login automatically, can cause the mac to hang for a long time if the share is not available. @kelly once you get the share mounted on desktop, just create a link or alias, highlight the mount, then CMD L or under the FInder pulldown 'Make Alais'. Then all you do next time is double click the alais.Note whatever user name you used to make the link will be prepopulated in the logon box, you just need to enter the password, unless you store it in keychain. Kefob (Contronex-Avira) wrote: To link to a Windows Server Share you have to use smb://servername/share You can automatically mount your Windows drive every time you login to your Mac by adding it to your Login items. In System Preferences, Accounts, choose the 'Login Items' tab and add the Volume to the list of apps that automatically start up I believe when you do this that it will always make the share folder Icon on your desktop that's what I've read (exactly that actually) however when I got to accounts/login items.
There is no choice to select the network share. Thus im stuck at that point. Kelly Armitage wrote: So I have gone to 'go - connect to server' put in the path, and it opens a window of the path I'd expect. Now I have an open network share window, command L doesnt appear to do anything and there is no 'make alias' under Finder. No idea how to make an alias from an open network share window.
You not using the open window to do this, just highlight the mounted icon on desktop, one click, then your finder options will work, CMD L or under finder file then make alais. Mike6051 wrote: Kelly Armitage wrote: So I have gone to 'go - connect to server' put in the path, and it opens a window of the path I'd expect. Now I have an open network share window, command L doesnt appear to do anything and there is no 'make alias' under Finder. No idea how to make an alias from an open network share window. You not using the open window to do this, just highlight the mounted icon on desktop, one click, then your finder options will work, CMD L or under finder file then make alais. There is no icon on the desktop.
When i go to 'go - connect to server' and enter a path, it opens the window. It doesnt create anything on the desktop.
There is nothing for me to click on! The other part is just to have that be a persistent 'shortcut' on the Mac desktop. Which is giving me grief. You have to make sure that the SMB share is set to connect under the user's startup tab in their user profile first. Then,if you right click on the top right edge of the share window after opening the share window, you can copy and paste the shorcut from the SMB share to the desktop in MacOS X from there.
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Its really strange, but worked for me. Ran into this after much frustration one day.