When you are finished, you can close the window. Simply highlight the server address you just typed, delete it, type in a new address, and hit the “+” button again.

If there is more than one share you want to automount, repeat this process for as many shares as you need.

You will know you have done this successfully when the server address appears in the lower portion of the window. This will add the network share to your list of Favorites.

Second, hit the “+” button to the right of the address.

I am assuming at this point you at least know what you want to connect to.

Type in the exact address of the share you want to connect to.

If you’d like to avoid having to enter your user name and password each time the computer connects to these shares, you’ll want to store the user name and password in your keychain, like so ( note: this window appears when you type a network address into the above window, click connect, and are then prompted for a user name/password): Let’s go back to the “Connect to Server” window. Second, some of the shares you connect to may require user names and passwords. Why? First, you’ll want to make sure the address you type in is correct there’s no point in trying to automount an incorrect address.

However, if you have never mounted any of the shares, I suggest you do so before proceeding. This is where you can enter the network addresses of the shares that you want to mount.įor the purposes of this project, we don’t actually want to mount the drives right now. To mount a drive, navigate to the Go menu, then choose “Connect to Server”.įrom there, you’ll get a window like the one below. The first thing we need to do is begin the process of mounting your drives a single time.

The best part about this process is that you don’t need to be anywhere but on your Desktop, in the Finder. For the most part, though, this process works flawlessly. Why do I say it only mostly works? Well, if you have a drive mounted and then put your computer to sleep, or if you lose the connection to the network drive for whatever reason, your Mac may not remount the drive when you come out of sleep (or restore your connection), or it may simply take a minute or so for the computer to remount the drive (rather than it being instantaneous).

I’m going to focus on the easy way for us right now. There’s an easy way (that mostly works) and a harder way (that always works). I’ve had a few people moving from Windows ask me how they can do the equivalent of “Map network drive” in Mac OS X Leopard.

Mac network drive path