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Mounting Network Drives - Mac OSX

Macintosh - How to Mount a Network Drive:

  • Be sure that "Finder" is appearing on the top left of your screen
    (Click anywhere on the desktop background.) 
  • Click the Go menu at the top of your screen and choose connect to server
  • Type into the Server Address field one of the following addresses,
    substituting your MHC username where stated:

     Personal Web Site/Space  smb://www/yourusername
     Departmental Web Space  smb://www/web
     Student Org Web Space  smb://www/web/org
     Course Website Space  smb://www/web/courses/yourusername
     All Course Website Spaces  smb://www/web/courses
     Departmental File Storage  smb://ambr/depts
     Personal File Storage  smb://mhc/yourusername
     Mac Software for Distribution  macdist

  • You may click the plus sign at the right off the address field to add them to your favorites list


  • Click the connect button, or double-click the server within your favorites list to connect
  • Provide your MHC username and password in the next window
  • Shortly afterwards an icon will appear on your desktop and a window should appear showing the files that live on that server

    Please contact helpdesk@mtholyoke.edu or call X-2600 if you experience and problems or have questions.
  • Please note

    If your old connections to the webserver are listed highlight them and click the remove button.  Eventually they will no longer will function. 
          machome = MHC Home Directory
          macdist = Software Distribution
          www = webspace (where files for webpages are stored)
          macwg = workgroups
          maconcampus = OnCampus (courses)

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