Specifications

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Cross-Mounting Shared Media
Storage on a Remote System
This section describes how to cross-mount a
shared volume on a remote system.
Cross-Mounting Windows Media
Storage on Mac OS X
You can mount a shared Windows volume on
Mac OS X.
To mount a shared Windows volume on Mac OS X:
1 In Mac OS X, go to the desktop.
2 Choose Go > Connect to Server.
3 In the Server Address field, type
SMB://computer, where computer represents the
name of the computer that contains or is con-
nected to the desired volume.
For example, to connect to the Media Composer
computer called MyComputer, you would type:
SMB://MyComputer
4 Click Connect.
5 In the System Authorization dialog, enter the
username and password information for the user
who has share privileges on the Windows com-
puter.
6 Click OK.
7 In the volume select dialog, select the volume
you want to mount on the Mac OS X desktop.
8 Click OK.
9 Mac OS X mounts the volume on the desktop.
Connect to Server dialog
To learn the name of the Windows machine:
on the Windows computer, right-click My
Computer and select Properties, then click
the Computer Name tab in the Properties
window.
System authorization dialog
The name shown in the menu is the Share
name created in “Sharing Media Storage for
Mounting on a Remote System” on page 26,
and may not be the same as the actual vol-
ume name.
Select the volume dialog