Accessing the shared company file from Mac OS X workstations

■	Workstations are Macintosh computers that access a company file stored on another computer, referred to as a host computer. Accessing the remote Public folder located on the host requires you to complete these procedures for each Macintosh workstation on the LAN running Mac OS X.

To access the remote Public folder (Mac OS X)

This procedure shows how to access the remote Public folder and ensure that the Macintosh workstation connects to it automatically when you log in.

1	In the Finder, go to the Go menu and choose Connect to Server.

2	Click Browse1 or type the URL for the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP, that is, TCP/IP) in the Server Address field, for example, afp://192.168.75.5.

3	Click Connect. The Connect to file server … window appears.

4	Click Guest and then click Connect.

5	In the Select the volumes … window, click the remote user folder to be mounted (for example, share folder) and click OK. A network disk icon appears on the desktop.

6	Open System Preferences and click Accounts. The Accounts window appears.

7	Click the Login Items tab and drag the network disk icon from the desktop into the Login Items list.2 The network disk is added to the list as a folder item. Do not select the Hide option next to the network disk item.

Now, at each login the user’s workstation will be connected to the remote Public folder on the host computer. When you store company files in this shared Public folder on a host they can be accessed from workstations.

tip : Access the remote company file with an alias

Open the shared Public folder, click the company file, create an alias, and drag the alias to the desktop. Next time you start the computer, double-click on the company file’s alias to open the shared file.

Related Topics

■	Preparing company files for multiple users

■	Setting up the network hardware

■	Setting up a company file folder on a Mac OS X host

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1

The Browse option appears in Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

2

In Mac OS X 10.3, click the StartUp Items tab and drag the network disk icon from the desktop into the StartUp Items list.