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How to Map Network Drive in MacOS

How to Map Network Drive in MacOS

By Mitch Bartlett 4 Comments

Learn how to map network drive in Apple MacOS Sierra with these steps.

Map a Drive

  1. In the “Finder“, select the “Go” menu, select “Connect to Server“.
  2. Enter the address to where the resource is you wish to map in the “Server Address” field. (i.e. smb://servername/foldername)
  3. Select the + button to save the Server Address to your list of “Favorite Servers“.
  4. Enter the username and password that is required to access the resource. Check the “Remember this password in my keychain” box if you wish to store the credentials for use at a later time.
  5. A new icon should appear on the desktop. That is your mapped network drive.

Automatically Connect Drives at Login

  1. Perform the steps to map a drive as listed above in the “Map a Drive” section.
  2. Open “System Preferences” from the Dock.
  3. Choose “Users & Groups“.
  4. Select the “Login Items” option.
  5. Ensure the lock in the bottom-left corner is unlocked. Select it to change it if needed.
  6. Drag the mapped drives from the desktop to the “Users & Groups” window.
  7. Check the “Hide” box next to your mapped volume, otherwise a window will open automatically.

The mapped drive will automatically connect at login from now on.

Create Alias

  1. Hold the “Command” key and press “K“.
  2. Enter the address to where the resource is you wish to map in the “Server Address” field. (i.e. smb://servername/foldername)
  3. Open the Finder “Preferences” pane.
  4. Make sure the box next to “Connected Servers” under “General” is checked.
  5. Right-click on the icon on your desktop representing the mounted drive.
  6. Choose “Make Alias” (And optionally rename the drive to something more specific).
  7. Go back and uncheck the box next to “Connected Servers”.

Upon restart or disconnect, just double-click on the alias and it will remount.

Thanks to Kevin for these steps.

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Filed Under: MacOS Tagged With: Sierra

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Comments

  1. moham says

    December 24, 2017 at 5:19 am

    Thanks man! Works like a charm!

  2. Gillis says

    November 8, 2017 at 10:46 am

    GREAT…thanks for the info!!! :-)

  3. E.R. says

    September 7, 2017 at 9:41 am

    I never, ever react to blogs.

    But now… This just plain works!

    Fantastic post!!
    Thanks!

  4. Valdo says

    August 28, 2017 at 1:24 am

    Hi Mitch & Kevin,
    thank you for the guideline, the procedure works well except one point, “Automatically Connect Drives at Login”, point 7.
    This step is not stopping the Finder to open automatically. How to solve this? as it is annoying to have the Finder starting at each machine start.

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