Make SMB shares appear in Devices section of Finder sidebar

Jul 02, '09 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: dzg

It was driving me nuts that SMB shares from my Windows server would not reappear under DEVICES in the sidebar. However, I then figured out that I can do this:

  1. Open System Preferences » Network
  2. Click the network interface you use for the shares
  3. Click on the Advanced button at lower right
  4. Click on WINS tab, and manually enter the workgroup name of the server
  5. Click the '+' under the WINS Servers list
  6. Enter the IP of the server (you are using static IP on your server, right?)
  7. Click OK, Apply, etc. until you're done
The next time I dragged a mounted share to Devices, it then showed up there automatically after the next unmount/mount. My shares seem to mount much faster now, as well. Now if only I could find a way to increase the transfer speed...sigh.

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