The Macintosh has "and" an auto-mount daemon with config files. (at least Lion did).
Essentially /Network/ is a special point managed by the AMD process that looks for devices with the name you provide as the second argument. If you go to the finder's go to network location, you can type in smb://device/drive to mount a drive. There might be options for automatically mount on login too. besides the smb (or samba) protocol which has man pages, it is also possible or at least in older Macintosh's was possible to use nfs: (apple file system), nfs (based off of sun's network file system), ftp to get a read only view of a ftp point and I think webdav: If you want to use command line interfaces and not deal with the auto-mount daemon, you can use the mount command to make permanent mount points. I believe that auto-mount also has functionality to associate /users/UserName with network addresses, but I never researched that, I just remember seeing something about in in the "/etc" directory. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 20, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > I just got my hard drive connecte to my router, and yes, the drive is > formatted to work with Macs. I can see the drive contents, but to do that, I > have to open the network item in Finder, then the router, then the drive. If > I wan to type the path to some folder on this drive, how would I do it? I'm > used to Windows, where I might do \\someComputerName\folder\subfolder. On the > Mac, though, I imagine things are quite differen. > On a related note, is there anything else about using network drives on the > Mac that I houl kno? I've never done it before, so want to make sure there > are no problems or things to watch for. Thanks for any suggestions. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
