Connecting to your Networked Filestore (Novell)
Macs do not automatically connect to your personal networked filestore and shared networked filestore, but it is easy to do. The following instructions relate to Mac OS 10.4 and above.
- Snow Leopard users need to be running at least 10.6.2.
- Lion users need to run a script before they can access Novell networked filestore: Novell Fix for OSX Lion
- From the desktop menu bar, click on Go
- Choose, Connect to Server
The following will appear:
In the Server Address box, type the name of your Novell Server, eg Yateholme.shef.ac.uk, Lightwood.shef.ac.uk etc. Then click Connect.
A login window will appear as below:
Enter your University username and password and click Connect
The following window will appear (showing your fileserver rather than Bamford).
Click on Shared and/or USR and click OK. An icon for the drive will appear on the desktop. Double click this and navigate to the required folder.
Note that if more than one USR drive is shown, eg, USR1, USR2, you may need to select these to find which is your own drive.
If you need to connect to your fielstore every time you start your Mac, then you can do this by adding the drive icon to the "Login Items" list in the "Accounts" panel of System Preferences. Alternatively, you can make an alias of the drive icon on your desktop and just click on this shortcut when you want to connect.