mapping home directory?

[excalibur313]

My campus allows each student 100mb of web space which in windows we access through mapping our home directory. It gets set as the h drive and it connects to a server each time (\\mdomfnp03\users\jensens). It then asks for my username and password when i go to connect. How do i do this with a mac? I played around with the connect to server but can't really get any results.
Thanks,
Excalibur313

 

[Nermal]

Open up Connect to Server, then type smb://mdomfnp03/users and click Connect. Enter your username and password, and you'll get a list of directories. Find jensens and put an alias on your desktop or somewhere for easy access.

If it doesn't connect to the server, then try entering its IP address - smb://x.x.x.x/users. You can determine its IP by navigating through the server structure in the Connect to Server dialogue box.

Hopefully this is correct(ish), I'm really doing it from memory, plus I know nothing about the network you're trying to connect to. It's also possible that your Mac will have a hissy fit if you try to click the alias to your home when you don't have the network connected.

Hope this helps anyway.

 

[excalibur313]

well the first part worked. The problem is that it won't let me make an alias because it says i lack sufficient privileges. What do you suggest i do?

 

[excalibur313]

it does let me make an alias to "users" in general

 

[Nermal]

I'm not really sure. Maybe you'll just have to make do with going via Users every time. Shouldn't be too much of a hassle.