Objective
Following these steps will connect your macOS machine to a network drive on fileshare.msu.edu.
Environment
macOS
Before You Begin
If you are mapping drives from off-campus, you will need to connect to the MSU campus VPN before following these instruction. You can find instructions how to connect a macOS machine to the VPN in KB 28 (link).
Steps
- On the desktop Dock, click the Finder icon.
- On the Finder menu, click Go.
- In the Go menu, select Connect to Server (alternately, press [command]+[K] on your keyboard).
- In the Server Address field of the Connect to Server'dialog box, enter the desired server/share preceded by smb://
Be sure to separate with forward slashes, not backslashes
- IT Services: smb://fileshare.msu.edu/itservices (general storage for IT Services). (When you connect to the IT Services drive, the Department, Team and Personal Folder will also connect.)
- Department: smb://fileshare.msu.edu/itservices/departments name, where department name is the name of your IT Services team (for example, ContentAndCollaboration).
- Team: smb://fileshare.msu.edu/itservices/departments/teamname, where department tname/teamname is the name of your IT Services team (for example, ContentAndCollaboration/Desktop Support).
- Personal Folder: smb://fileshare.msu.edu/itservices/Home/NETID, where NETID is your MSU NetID (may have to be entered in all capital letters).
- Software: smb://fileshare.msu.edu/software (commonly-used application installation files).
- Click the Connect button.
- When prompted, select the Registered User radio button option in the Connect as field.
- Enter your MSU Net ID prefix in the Name field.
- Enter your password in the Password field.
- Click Connect.
- Click Finder and select Preferences.
- Check to fill Connected servers.
- Click on the red dot to close the window.
- The mappings will appear on the desktop.
Additional Info
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