Mapping a network drive in osx

[matt100]

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

 

[matt100]

you see?

if you get ignored long enough you work it out for yourself

all done!

 

[matt100]

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.