Connecting+to+school+servers

So, now you're in macland, where did all the drives go? You kept most of your school files on your "U" drive, and now again you'd dabble with various other drives, like the "K," "V" and so on. Now these drives or "servers" have actual names, and you have to access them manually.

"Servers" are large hard drives, or series of linked drives, that hold files. ("The cloud," a recent term, refers to servers that are possibly thousands of miles away.) On campus, you will probably need to connect to various servers, such as your own school space (what used to be called the "U" drive), the high school drive, and so on.

1. Click on the Finder or desktop 2. Press Command K (or use the menu: Go > Connect to Server. The window below will appear:

3. Enter the name of the server. These are the most common:
 * Your "U" drive: smb:facstaff/user/users/[insert your login; mine is gavind, for example]
 * High School drive: smb:facstaff/highschool
 * Public drive: smb://facstaff/wmspublic

Tip: start making some of these servers your "favorite" by pressing the + key at the right of the server address. It will make a list below in the box and you can just double click on the server you want next time). Tip2: you'll also notice the clock icon on the right hand side -- if you click on that, it lists recent servers you've accessed.

4. Click connect