# How To: Connect To A Network Shared Folder With Mac OS X

To connect to a networked share drive such as your “H drive” (the home folder) or the “P drive” (the public folders) your Mac must be connected to the campus network in one of two ways.

* Connected to the Rio-Secure wireless network
* Connected to a wired Ethernet port on campus

### From the Finder, select Go in the Menu bar.

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### Select Connect to Server…

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![Go connect](https://www.riohondo.edu/its/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/go_connect.png)

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### Enter the address of the network share

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![Server list](https://www.riohondo.edu/its/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/server_list.png)

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Windows network shares use the Server Message Block protocol and therefore begin with

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`smb://`

followed by the name of the server you are connecting to.

`smb://home880/users$/jfaculty`
