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Overview

This tutorial will walk you through connecting your Macs to SMB (Server Message Block) shares, hosted on Windows Servers, Windows Desktops, or network attached storage devices.

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Mac OS X allows you to connect to different network shares using the Connect to Server utility. Although this tutorial covers SMB, it can be used for other protocols too.

Before you begin, make sure you have your NetID login account details before attempting to connect!

Launch Connect to Server

  1. From the Finder menu, click Go.
  2. Click Connect to Server from Go’s drop down menu.
  3. Alternatively, you can also press Command+K to launch Connect to Server.

Connect to a SMB Share

  1. In the Server Address field, enter smb:// to define the network protocol for SMB, and then enter either the IP address or the hostname of the server.

    FIG 2 – Connect to Server dialog box
  2. To add the server to your Favorite Servers list, click the ‘+’ button.
  3. Click Connect to connect to the share.
  4. When prompted, enter your NetID user name and password to connect to server.
  5. Click Connect to connect to the server.
  6. Violà! Once the connection is made, the share you have access to will appear on your desktop.

    FIG 4 – Mounted share volume in OS X

Try Finder -> Go -> Connect to server -> smb://new_Username@wdmycloud

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If you can get it mounted, then when prompted for the password, allow the Finder to store the password in Keychain.

Connect In People 🇫🇷/🇬🇧 Mac Os X

Once mounted, Find the volume and create an Alias for the volume. Drag the Alias to your System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Startup Items. The Alias will encode the account used to connect and the next time you try to access it via the Alias, the Finder will get the password from the Keychain.

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