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:
- Open System Preferences » Network
- Click the network interface you use for the shares
- Click on the Advanced button at lower right
- Click on WINS tab, and manually enter the workgroup name of the server
- Click the '+' under the WINS Servers list
- Enter the IP of the server (you are using static IP on your server, right?)
- 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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