But if you connect to a number of Windows volumes, it’s a pain to create one of these scripts for each.Īll this is a long-winded way to say “I wish there was an easier way to connect to Windows shares.” Turns out, there is: Supinfo’s free Great for security, bad for convenience.ĭouble-clicking such a script mounts the volume without requesting your password. How many users remember that they have to typeīe able to see the desired Windows share, but only if it’s on the same network subnet and assigned to the same workgroup and even then it’s not guaranteed thanks to a slightly buggy Network Browser implementation.) The second is that many users find that they have to type in their password every time-for some reason, no matter how many times you check the Add to Keychain box in the password dialog, it doesn’t work. The first is that you need to know how to format the SMB URL of the target computer/share. Unfortunately, there are a few, shall we say, “issues” with this process. You’re asked for your username and password, and then the shared volume is mounted in the Finder. You simply open the Finder’s Connect to Server dialog (via the Go menu or by pressing command+K), type in the Windows computer’s IP address (or, for local computers, the computer name), and click Connect. For many Mac users, the biggest advantage of this move was the ability to connect to shared volumes on Windows computers (and other computers providing SMB/CIFS shares). With Mac OS X 10.3, Apple made the Mac a full citizen on Windows networks.
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