Connecting to the Novell Servers from a Macintosh
Using MacOS X:
Options for connection to the servers from OS X:
- Manually connect and/or create aliases for the servers by hand. Instructions for doing so are below.
- Download a set of pre-made aliases (shortcuts) and keep them on your desktop for easy access.
- Download and use the St. Olaf Login
application that is found
on the public lab computers.
Manually connecting to the servers:
- In the Finder, click the 'Go' menu and select 'Connect to
Server. . .'
- In the text field that says 'Address,' type in the server
name:
- For student home directories, enter 'stuhome.stolaf.edu'
- For faculty and staff home directories, enter 'fshome.stolaf.edu'
- For class folders, enter 'classes.stolaf.edu'
- For shared folders, enter 'shared.stolaf.edu'
- For apps and installers, enter 'prime.stolaf.edu'
- Click 'Connect'.
- Type in your username and password and click 'Connect'
- Select the volume you wish to mount and click 'OK'.
- The server volume will appear on your desktop.
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For easy access in the future, you can create an alias for the server volume. Click once on the volume icon and select File -> Make Alias.
You will have an alias on your desktop that you can use to connect.
To connect to the server in the future, double-click on the alias icon. When prompted, enter for your username and password and click OK. The server volume will mount on your desktop.
Using MacOS 9:
- Open the Chooser. Highlight AppleShare and click Server IP
Address.
- Enter the DNS name or IP address of the server to which you would like to connect.
- For student home directories, enter 'stuhome.stolaf.edu'
- For faculty and staff home directories, enter 'fshome.stolaf.edu'
- For class folders, enter 'classes.stolaf.edu'
- For shared folders, enter 'shared.stolaf.edu'
- For apps and installers, enter 'prime.stolaf.edu'
- Enter your St. Olaf username and password and click Connect.
For example, if your username is "smithj" you would
enter smithj in the box illustrated below.
- Select the server volume or volumes you want to mount -- hold
down the Shift key to select multiple volumes -- and click OK.
- You will then have an icon on your desktop for each server
volume that you selected.
- For easy access in the future, you can create an alias for
the server volume. Click once on the volume icon and select Make
Alias from the File menu. You will have an alias on your
desktop that you can use to connect.
To connect to the server in the future, double-click on the alias icon. When prompted, enter for your username and password and click OK. The server volume will mount on your desktop.