When navigating on a network that has mapped drives, what does the MacOS have as the equivalent to drive mapping?
MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.14
Just create an alias to the share.
You don't seem to understand that a drive mapping is completely useless to anyone else in the company. You cannot reliably share paths to documents using drive letter mapping because anyone can map anything to anywhere.
See if you can find an old document from Apple on “autofs”. That is the best reference to using a Mac in a corporate network. You’ll need a well-managed AD network with good Mac support. If the Macs are bound to the domain, then you can use automount. If you don’t get too fancy, it will work most of the time. I recommend only copying files back and forth. Don’t try to directly open files on a network volume. It will work well enough until important files start getting corrupted.
I told you there was no way to do it and I told you how to work around that "unnecessary inconvenience" which you also have to do to map the drive in Windows.
We also have "corporate" drive mapping standards which do not work because some users are in two different OU's. So the standard doesn't work as you can't have two "O-drives."
You can, however, create a network location shortcut using the full UNC path.
Your appeal to authority is not very impressive.
I do understand very well. I'm a former MCSE and know my way around computers pretty well. Most companies have standard drive mappings that everyone in the company uses...except Mac users because they don't handle drive mappings. But yes, any user can initiate their own drive mappings, and some of those may conflict with the standard drive mappings if you're not careful. But the point is convenience. They are not "totally useless". They are in fact very useful. My current company has no Mac users. I recently started using a Mac, and some of these discoveries are just annoying. Most of the time I've managed to find another way of doing a particular task on a Mac that I do on Windows. I'm asking the question to see if there is a way to map a drive on a Mac to avoid the unnecessary inconvenience of having to navigate the entire drive path on a network drive.
Not helpful. That's exactly the point. You can map a network share to any drive letter you want and avoid having to navigate the full server\share path. It's a matter of convenience.
I've seen a reference to making an "Alias". Is that what you're referring to? I read one article on it, and I think that may work. I appreciate your suggestions.
The full path to the server and share.
Drive Mappings on Windows mean absolutely nothing as every user can map a network share to any drive letter they choose.
On a business network how do you get a Mac to use drive mappings?
