Mapping a network drive in osx

matt100

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I have a lacie ethernet NAS attached to my router which holds all my music and photos etc.

With my windows pc and laptop its been very easy to map it and for example point itunes at it as its music source.

I've just picked up an ibook today (had them before so I have a rough idea what I'm doing with it) and I'm finding it impossible to map it.. keeps asking about smb stuff and I don't seem to be able to browse to it through the network settings. Can anyone give me any pointers? I know the network name, the workgroup name, thew ip of the nas, I can browse to the drive through safari but thats not a permanent link obviously.

If this becomes a serious issue I'm going to have to get rid of the ibook again which I really don't want to do :(
 
eeerm right.. this is for osx 10.4..

go to finder and press apple+k which brings up a connect to server box

then enter smb:// ip address (drive name) in my case smb://192.168.0.20 (nas) and that connects to the server and asks you for the username and address which I found was the admin logon for my nas and presto.. you're in ;)

I remember this, osx can be a bit problematic but on the whole its the user overcomplicating things like I was.
 
You can also add it as a startup item so you don't have to keep mapping the drive

1. Connect to the server share manually at least once in each account you want the automount.
2. Go to ~/Library/Recent Servers - locate the file that ID's the server mount you want to access
3. Open your system preferences: Accounts
4. Select and Unlock 'My Account' if it is locked
5. Click on 'Login Items' tab at the Accounts Pane
6. Drag and drop the desired Recent Server file into the Login Items list (or click the '+' and browse to it)
7. You can change the autolaunch order at login by dragging items in the list to a higher or lower location
8. Exit System Preferences.

The downside is that you will have to manually close the automounted share finder windows everytime you login.

You can also use applescript to do this, such as

tell application "Finder"
open location "smb://myusername:mypassword@serverip/sharename"
end tell
 
Or an even faster way is to Apple + K the desktop mount it, drag to mount to the dock then eject, and when you want it osx will connect and mount the drive one demand, saves having a network connection trying to open while also trying to loggin. Just a thought.
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Tom
 
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