[P1] Mounting servers

Chris Weinkauf statustician at mac.com
Tue Nov 11 11:59:18 PST 2003


That worked! Thank you so much.  For a while, I was scared that they 
totally dumped mounting servers for a more...windows...based network 
browser.

--Chris


On Nov 11, 2003, at 6:11 AM, david wrote:

> On 11/11/03 12:37 AM, "leigh" <lbdesigns at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2003, at 8:33 PM, Chris Weinkauf wrote:
>>
>>> I went in and looked.  All the check boxes are checked but I still
>>> dont see a mounted server on the desktop OR in the Finder.  This
>>> feature is essential in our office.  We could really use the help if
>>> anyone else has had this problem.
>>>
> In Panther there are two ways to connect to a server and which way you 
> use
> affects the behavior.
>
> 1) command K and type in the server address: afp://193.32.11.32 for 
> example
>    doing this you'll see the computer mounted on the desktop and the 
> sidebar
>
> 2) use the network browser and double click on a server
>    connect this way and you DON'T see the server mounted on the desktop
>
> Using the second method, if you re-open the network browser window 
> you'll
> see that the computer you are connected to as an icon that is slightly 
> more
> blue in color. That is the only hint that you're connected to that 
> computer.
> If you select that icon, you can eject it using command E or from the 
> file
> menu of the Finder
>
> david
>
>
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