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How do I map a network drive on Mac OSX?
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This guide will walk you through how to map your YSU network shared drive on a Mac OSX computer
Please note: The instructions for mapping a network shared drive differs between students and faculty/staff.
If this is a YSU Computer, please try restarting the machine and the drive should map automatically.
Faculty/Staff Instruction:
Follow the steps below to map a shared drive on a Mac OSX computer:
- Select Connect to Server under the Go menu in Finder. In the Server Address box, enter the path of your personal "Y" drive (without quotes) as “smb://ysu.local/dfs/homeshare/yourusername"
- If you are mapping a departmental share drive, please use these examples as they pertain to the specific share you are trying to add.
For Bucket Drives: "smb://bucket.ysu.local/S_example_drive"
For Vault Drives: "smb://vault.ysu.local/S_example_drive"
- Be sure that the Connect as Registered User button is selected in the window that appears.
- Enter your directory account name prefixed with “YSU\” without quotes. For example, YSU\jmsmith.
- Enter your directory account password.
Student Instruction:
Students should use OneDrive to store files. Please see our related article "Upload and save files and folders to OneDrive."