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For accessing Amahi shared folders/files on a Mac OS X computer, you use the Finder. There are several ways to connect to your Amahi HDA. Using the Finder directly and Connecting to the server share from the Finder. == Using the Finder Directly == The Finder should show an entry for '''hda''' under '''SHARED''' on the left pane. * Click on the '''hda''' share. A Finderwindow should come up with '''Connected as: Guest''' at the top. The visible shares should be listed. However, as guest they are not writeable.* There should be a button to the right saying '''Connect As ...''' which when clicked, opens a window and the option to connect as guest or registered user. * Click on registered user and in the name put the ''username'' you want to access the share as, then the password.* Click on the '''Remember this password in my keychain''' if you want to autoconnect in the future. == Connecting to a Server from the Finder == Select the '''Go''' menu, then:
* '''Connect to Server''' (Apple-K shortcut).
** Enter the ''Server Address:'' '''smb://<user>@hda/Movies''' with your samba username instead of <user>** You can connect to all the HDA shares, like //hda/Docs or //hda/Music, or as many as you have shares.** If your Mac OS X user matches the Samba user, you can eliminate '''<user>@''' above
** Press the "'''+'''" sign beside the Server Address line, so the connection is saved as a ''favorite''.
** Click '''Connect'''.
** ''Name:'' '''<your HDA username>'''
** ''Password:'' '''<your HDA user password>'''
** Check You may want to check the '''Remember this password in my keychain''' so you can auto-connect in the future.
* Enjoy, the mounted drive should appear now in the Finder and be available at /Volumes/Movies on your local system.
You can connect to all the HDA shares, like //hda/Docs or //hda/Music, or as many as you have shares.
If your Mac OS X user matches the Samba user, you can eliminate '''<user>@''' above
To set your system to auto-connect at login or startup, see this [http://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/MacOSXConnectingToSMB great intro article].
== Connecting with the command line ==
For the power users out there, there are commands to mount the Amahi HDA server on demand. This is an example:
mkdir -p ~/Desktop/hda/movies
mkdir -p ~/Desktop/hda/music
mount_smbfs '//hda/movies' ~/Desktop/hda/movies
mount_smbfs '//hda/music' ~/Desktop/hda/music
The mount commands will ask for password appropriately.
A more general form of this mount command for a given user and a domain is like this:
mount_smbfs '//home.com;user@hda/share' ~/Desktop/hda/share
You have to replace home.com for your own domain in your network and user for the user you want to access the share as.
