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Network Drives and Network Printers on Mac

Asked by jamesnoe in Mac OS X, Apple Laptop, Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

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Hi,

Apologies, possibly two questions in one here, but possibly related...

On my network at home I have a NAS device that is also a printer server.  This device is imaginatively named 'fileserver'

When I open up finder in my mac, it will randomly find 'fileserver'  It makes no difference if the mac is turned on first or second.  Sometimes it will find it instantly, sometimes it won't.

I can do 'go -> Connect to server', but this is cumbersome.

I tried to do a Windows-esque map network drive by adding the locations in my start up, but this opened up a new finder window for each mapped drive when I logged on.

Also, I cannot get the mac to print to the printer on this device (windows can print fine to it).

The device is definitely visible to the mac as I can navigate to the web admin interface.

In a nutshell, my questions are:

1) Is there a way to force the mac to see 'fileserver' (i.e. if the mac doesn't come up with it under 'shared devices' is there a way to force it?)

2) Is there a way on the mac I can simply type an address (i.e. in Windows in the address bar of explorer I can type \\machinename)

3) Is there a proper way to map network drives and handle instances when the device isn't there (i.e. I've got a macbook so won't always be on my home network)

4) How do I set up the printer that Windows calls '\\fileserver\lp'?


Thanks

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