Re: how to type network path on macOS

2016-08-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn 
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  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.
> 
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RE: how to type network path on macOS

2016-08-20 Thread M. Taylor 
Hello Alex,

You  know?  It’s funny, dealing with network drives has always been my least 
favorite thing to do in Mac OS.  Perhaps, like you, I came from a Windows world 
where it certainly appears to be a much simpler task when it comes to path 
description.  

Be that as it May, Ryan is right on point in his technique.  

My personal solution is to simply map the drive to the Desktop, thereby 
eliminating the need to type.  

In Mac OS terms, this is referred to as creating an Alias.  

Consequently, when you locate the drive  and/or drive folder in Finder, use the 
Mac OS shortcut menu to create an Alias which will be placed on the DeskTop.  

Of course, you can give the Alias any name you wish.  Then, from that point on, 
it’s simply a matter of selecting the Alias in order to open the drive and/or 
drive folder.

Mark 


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Subject: how to type network path on macOS

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
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Re: how to type network path on macOS

2016-08-20 Thread Ryan Mann 
Hit Command K.  Then type //network path.  For example if your drive was on 
192.168.1.94 and you want to access a folder called mp3 you would type 
//192.168.1.94/mp3.


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> On Aug 20, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Alex Hall  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.
> 
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how to type network path on macOS

2016-08-20 Thread Alex Hall 
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

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