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Tip: Let Finder remember your servers

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Posted 19 February 2010 - 03:05 PM

If you’ve got a remote file server (AFP, NSF, etc.) or a server running VNC for remote administration Finder has a tool to help (provided you don’t mind using built-in Mac OS X services for things like FTP or VNC).

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The tip is simple, Finder has a Go menu and within that menu is Connect to Server... which lets you use AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS, FTP and WebDAV protocols (click on the ? for a list of all services). FYI you can also use Command-K to open the same dialog.

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Once you’ve got the dialog just type something into the box in the format service://server-address then click Connect to connect to the server. Clicking the + button will add it to the favorite servers list (hence the "let Finder remember your servers" title).

If you connect using vnc://server-address Finder will use the built in Screen Sharing application to connect you to the remote server. The file sharing protocols will mount using Finder.
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