One of the users on my network uses a mac and he can't figure out how to connect to unraid. If he switches to vista he can access it fine.  I'm not a mac user so can anyone point me in the right direction to guide this person? I tried searching didn't yield very much.

 

thanks

In the Finder press command + K. Write smb://username@ipaddress/. Replace username with user and ipaddress with unraids ip address. That should do it.

One of the users on my network uses a mac and he can't figure out how to connect to unraid. If he switches to vista he can access it fine. I'm not a mac user so can anyone point me in the right direction to guide this person? I tried searching didn't yield very much.

 

thanks

 

I found that the Mac didn't like DHCP at all. Change to a static IP, and add to the same range and subnet as your network. Then you should be able to apple-k and type in smb://ipaddress and it'll come up with a name and password field. Don't try and type in the name of the server into either the browser or finder, as it won't work! After a while, the server should pop up in networks as well. As soon as Tom provides an implementation of Bonjour, then life for the Mac world should get easier as well.

my user shares don't have any passwords, only the root account has username password. I just may tell him to connect under vista.

Just connect with the IP address and it should bring up a list of shares straight away.

I use a static ip address for unraid as well. If we get bonjour (zeroconf) support it will be even easier.

if he connects with ip address, it prompts for user name/password.

Well, SMB works the same on either Vista or OS X. Why not setup some user shares and create a guest user or individual. It should either come up with shares straight away, or you'd have to type in "root" as the user, or nothing at all.