What are network drives or server volumes?

Every student at Saint Mary's College is provided with 50MB of disk space on our network to save files to and/or host a web page. Faculty and staff are provided with 100MB of disk space on our network. This space is accessible from any networked computer on campus, and is commonly referred to as a personal network drive or the H: drive. A student can save a paper she is working on in her room to her network drive; go to a computer cluster; access the paper saved on her network drive; and print it on the laser printers. This eliminates the need to carry files around on disks. Also, a backup of all network drives is created every night, which makes it a secure place for your important papers and other files. Saint Mary's College strongly recommends that you save a copy of your work to your network drive.

You may also need to connect to additional network drives or server volumes to access shared department work/file space.

For Macintosh computers running Mac OS X, versions 10.1 - 10.4:

1. While in the Finder (you know you're in the Finder if you look up at the menu bar and it says Finder next to the Apple Menu - if you're not in the Finder, click on the desktop), go to the Go menu and select Connect to Server...

2. Next to Address: or Server Address: type in the full name of the server you wish to connect to. (If you want to connect to your personal network drive, type in diamond.saintmarys.edu.) Click Connect.

3. You will be prompted for a username and password to connect to the server. To connect to your personal network drive, type in your user name and your password and then click Connect. (This is the same user name and password you use to check your Saint Mary's e-mail.)

4. You will then see a window listing the items available on the file server. Your personal network drive has the same name as your user name (i.e. msmith01). You can also select any other drive that appears in the list if you wish - hold down the Command (Apple) key to click on more than one drive name.

5. To connect to the network drive, click once on the name of the drive. The name of the network drive will then be highlighted.

6. Click OK.

7. The network drive's icon will appear on your desktop.

8. To access any of the network drives mounted on your desktop, double-click on its icon.

9. To easily remount a network drive in Mac OS X versions 10.1 and 10.2:

1. Click once on the icon of the network drive to highlight it.

2. Go to the File menu and select Add to Favorites.

3. When you shut down or log off your computer, it will disconnect from any mounted network drives. To reconnect to a network drive when you turn your Macintosh back on, go to the Go menu (while in the Finder), select Favorites, and select the volume you want to mount. You will then be prompted for your Saint Mary's login and password and the volume will mount.

10. To easily remount a network drive in Mac OS versions 10.3 and 10.4:

    1. Click once on the icon of the network drive to highlight it.

    2. Click down once on the icon of the network drive and drag it to the right side of the dock at the bottom of the screen. You should see icons in the dock moving around to make room for the new icon to appear.

    3. Let go of the mouse button to "drop" the icon in the dock.

    4. When you shut down or log off your computer, it will disconnect from any mounted network drives. To reconnect to a network drive when you turn your Macintosh back on, click once on the icon in the dock of the network drive you want to mount. You will then be prompted for your Saint Mary's login and password and the volume will mount.

For Macintosh computers running Mac OS X, version 10.5 (Leopard):

1. While in the Finder (you know you're in the Finder if you look up at the menu bar and it says Finder next to the Apple Menu - if you're not in the Finder, click on the desktop), go to the Finder menu and select Preferences

2. In the area below Show these items on the Desktop: check the box next to Connected servers.

3. Close the Finder Preferences window.

4. While in the Finder, go to the Go menu and select Connect to Server...

5. Next to Address: or Server Address: type in diamond.saintmarys.edu and click Connect.

6. You will be prompted for a username and password to connect to the server. Type in your user name and your password and then click Connect. (This is the same user name and password you use to check your Saint Mary's e-mail.)

7. You will then see a window listing the items available on the file server Diamond. There are three items (network drives) on Diamond you will want to connect to:

• Your personal network drive, which has the same name as your user name (i.e. msmith01).

• Public - The Public network drive has the Courses folder in it. You can use this to access course materials that your instructors place there for your classes.

• ResNet Software - The ResNet Software network drive contains Internet applications that are available for you to install on your computer. Latest versions of software such as VirusScan for Mac, Adobe Reader, Fetch, Firefox, iTunes, and Stuffit Expander are available here.

8. To connect to these network drives, click once on the name of the drive (hold down the Command (Apple) key to click on more than one drive name). The names of the network drives will be highlighted. (Note that you may need to use the scroll bar to the right of the list of names to see all these items.)

9. Click OK.

10. The Public, ResNet Software, and your personal network drive icons will appear on your desktop.

11. To access any of the network drives mounted on your desktop, double-click on its icon.

12. Select the three drives (you can click and drag your mouse cursor over the three drives to select them).

13. Click down once on the icons of the three drives and drag them to the right side of the dock at the bottom of the screen. You should see icons in the dock moving around to make room for the new icons to appear.

14. Let go of the mouse button to "drop" the icons in the dock.

15. When you shut down or log off your computer, it will disconnect from any mounted network drives. To reconnect to a network drive when you turn your Mac back on, click once on the icon in the dock of the network drive you want to mount. You will then be prompted for your Saint Mary's login and password and the volume will mount.