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7. At Cal Poly, you will see several Network icons representing different areas of the
university. It is easiest if you are in Column View for this navigation. Click the
appropriate area you desire to access from the list of servers or computers.
8. In the second column to the right, you should now see a list of every computer that has
sharing turned on at Cal Poly. Double-click the name of the computer you wish to
access.
9. A Connect to File Server window (Figure 21) will appear for you to input your user
name and password as described above. Continue by clicking on the volume you wish
to mount as described above.
NOTE: If you wish to access a Mac OS X machine from Mac OS 9 you need to use the
Chooser in OS 9.
To disconnect yourself from a shared disk or folder, simply drag it to the Trash. If you want to
disconnect others who are file sharing on your Mac, you may slam the door by just turning off
the Personal File Sharing feature in System Preferences > Sharing
Connecting to iDisks, NFS, FTP, and WebDAV Servers
Did you know that you can also connect to iDisks, NFS (Unix machines), FTP servers, and
WebDAV Servers? Here are the address formats to connect to them:
1.
is a file server that Macintosh users can access through their .Mac accounts
(basically, paying Apple computer for server space of your own). Although the easiest
way to bring your iDisk icon to the screen is to choose Go > iDisk > My iDisk, to bring
up your iDisk folder on a friend’s Mac, type: afp://idisk.mac.com into the Connect to
Server dialog box. When you click connect, the Mac asks for your iDisk name and
password and then mounts the iDisk folder on your Desktop.
2.
If you’re on a network with Unix machines, you can tap into one of their
shared directories using this address format: nfs://Machine-Name/pathname where
Machine-Name is the computer’s name or IP address and the pathname is the folder
path to the shared item you want to access.
3.
FTP servers are the drives out there on the Internet that store the files
used by Web sites. In the Connect to Server dialog box, use this address format:
ftp://www.apple.com (or whatever the address is). If the site’s administrators have
permitted anonymous access (i.e., a Guest account), that’s all there is to it. A Finder
window will pop up, revealing the FTP site’s contents. If you need a password to access
the account, the address format should reflect the account name you’ve been given by
password before you can access the files.
4.
This special kind of Web-based shared disk requires an address
format of its own: http://Computer-Name/pathname Once you click OK, you will be
asked for your name and password.
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