How to connect to a shared folder using Mac OSX

Your campus Macintosh machine can connect to campus resources using your network ID and password.

To connect to a networked share drive such as your H drive (the home folder) or the P drive (the public folders) your Mac must be connected to the campus network in one of two ways:

  • Connected to the Río-Secure wireless network
  • Connected to a wired ethernet port on campus

From the Finder, select Go in the Menu bar.

Screenshot of a computer menu showing the "Go" tab selected, with "Back" and "Forward" options listed below.

Select Connect to Server.

A Finder window menu on macOS showing file locations and shortcuts, with "Connect to Server..." highlighted at the bottom.

Enter the address of the network share.

A dialog box titled "Connect to Server" with "smb://servername/sharename/" entered in the Server Address field.

Windows network shares use the Server Message Block protocol and begin with

smb://

followed by the name of the server you are connecting to:

smb://home880/users$/jfaculty