Comments on: Map a Network Drive on a Mac

By: dpbrick

dpbrick — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:57:29 +0000

Thanks for a very helpful post. One thing to note: In Mountain Lion, “Accounts” has been changed to “Users & Groups”.

By: _-_-_-

_-_-_- — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:47:15 +0000

Maybe you should upgrade that WinXp machine to an OS that has come out in the past decade. That might help.

By: Anshul

Anshul — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:11:12 +0000

Hi
I tried following these intructions however the system is asking me for a username and password, not sure which user name I am suppose to use here. Can someone please help?

By: diglines02

diglines02 — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:51:33 +0000

dude, macs r way better than pc’s. mac’s r easier too.

By: jrasicmark

jrasicmark — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:56:32 +0000

Most of the computers where I work are PCs. They recently did something to the network and moved my H drive. They sent me this link to try to re-map it. Everything worked fine until I got to the login window and none of my old passwords work. Do they need to re-set passwords on their end?

By: Tor I.

Tor I. — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:59:04 +0000

You probably need to dig into the keychain login identities, nuke the old one and then mount the volume using the new one.

By: raennik

raennik — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:40:16 +0000

Brilliant, like a charm Thanks!

By: japanese Parsley

japanese Parsley — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:47:39 +0000

Thanks a bunch!!! Worked perfectly

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:53:57 +0000

osascript -e ‘mount volume “smb://username:password@192.168.1.111/path/path”‘

Using Automator, this is simple.

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[...] hard drive (i.e. \192.168.0.5seagate). If you’re using Mac OS X, you can follow these instructions to map the network [...]

By: rgalway

rgalway — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:19:33 +0000

most of a DO have windows machines! i got one sitting right here next to my Mac Funny thing… I can operate both very well if i might add!

By: rgalway

rgalway — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:14:01 +0000

your comments regarding networking on the mac are just to vague to really reply too. One could guess though, that maybe the mac you are connecting to is a sleep and you are waiting for the drives to spin up… and become available to mount, while the widows box is not asleep and the drives are set not to sleep, there for available instantly!

As an example of the exact opposite situation, the g4 server in my studio, mounts IMMEDIATELY when I browse. Where as the windowsXPpro workstation up stairs takes about 20seconds to mount. Networking on widows is very bad…. Why?

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:39:45 +0000

When you add the drives in Login Items, there is a check box under the Hide column. When you tick this, the connection to the shared drive is established, but it will not open up.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:05:31 +0000

I have the same issue. It’s not really a problem, just an annoyance. If anyone knows the fix please let is know. The “Hide” checkbox does not work either. Just a heads up on that.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:52:02 +0000

Same thing is happening to me. Even if I go into the login items and check it to hide it still pops open. I tell you one thing… MAC and networks are so stinking finicky!