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Mac Users: Accessing Storage through CIFS/SMB, Finder's Go, Connect to Serve, Connect, Login

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Instructing your End Users Mac Users: Accessing Storage through CIFS/SMB 4 Mac Users: Accessing Storage through CIFS/SMB Mac users who have a user profile can access any shares to which they have privileges on the NSS storage using CIFS/SMB. To access the NSS storage via CIFS/SMB: STEP 1 From the Finder's Go menu, click Connect to Server. STEP 2 Enter "smb:///. (Where the information in the brackets is meant to be replaced with the applicable information. Do not type the brackets.) STEP 3 Click the "+" sign to save the NSS address to the Favorite Servers list so that the next time you log in you just need to select the address from the list. STEP 4 Click Connect. STEP 5 When the Login window appears, enter your username and password. If your user profile is set up locally (that is, through the NSS configuration interface and not through the ADS or NTv4 domain) and the NSS is joined to a domain, you need to enter the following: \. If the NSS is not joined to a domain, just enter the username/password. STEP 6 Depending on your privileges to the share, you can begin using the NSS storage. NSS2000 Getting Started Guide 21

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Instructing your End Users
Mac Users: Accessing Storage through CIFS/SMB
NSS2000 Getting Started Guide
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Mac Users: Accessing Storage through CIFS/SMB
Mac users who have a user profile can access any shares to which they have
privileges on the NSS storage using CIFS/SMB.
To access the NSS storage via CIFS/SMB:
STEP 1
From the
Finder’s Go
menu, click
Connect to Serve
r
.
STEP 2
Enter "smb://<hostname or IP address of the NSS>/<sharename>. (Where the
information in the brackets is meant to be replaced with the applicable
information. Do not type the brackets.)
STEP 3
Click the "+" sign to save the NSS address to the Favorite Servers list so that the
next time you log in you just need to select the address from the list.
STEP 4
Click
Connect
.
STEP 5
When the
Login
window appears, enter your username and password. If your user
profile is set up locally (that is, through the NSS configuration interface and not
through the ADS or NTv4 domain) and the NSS is joined to a domain, you need to
enter the following: <NSS hostname>\<user name>. If the NSS is not joined to a
domain, just enter the username/password.
STEP 6
Depending on your privileges to the share, you can begin using the NSS storage.