University of Kent

1. Click on the Windows Start button (located in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen) and select Computer from the right-hand menu.
   
2. Select Map Network Drive from the toolbar near the top.
   
3. Enter the name and location of your folder in the ‘folder’ box using this format, replacing all details as appropriate for the location and name of your folder:
   if your Kent IT account username was abc1, and your folder name was abc1 on 'bodiam\Xyz' the location is: \\bodiam.kent.ac.uk\Xyz\abc1
   
4. Leave the tick in the box beside Reconnect at logon. If there is no tick in the box click on the empty white box next to Reconnect at logon, a tick should then appear.
   
5. Place a tick in the empty white box next to Connect using different credentials and click Finish.
   
6. The Enter Network Password box should appear. In the User name field enter UKC\abc1 replacing ‘abc1’ with your own username:
   
   Do not forget to put UKC\ before your username; the process will not work otherwise. Enter your IT account password in the ‘Password’ field and click OK.
   If you will use this regularly, you can select the option to reconnect the drive automatically: this means your computer will attempt to connect the drive every time you use your PC. If you find this slows down your computer, delete this mapped drive and map to it again leaving this option unchecked: this means you will need to map to the location every time you want to access it in future.
   
7. Click OK to map the drive. A window will appear displaying the contents of the folder you have just mapped to.

1. Click on the Windows Start button (located in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen) and select Computer from the right-hand menu.
   
2. Select Map Network Drive from the toolbar near the top.
   
3. Enter the name and location of your folder in the ‘folder’ box using this format, replacing all details as appropriate for the location and name of your folder:
   if your Kent IT account username was abc1, and your folder name was abc1 on 'bodiam\Xyz' the location is: \\bodiam.kent.ac.uk\Xyz\abc1
   
4. Leave the tick in the box beside Reconnect at logon. If there is no tick in the box click on the empty white box next to Reconnect at logon, a tick should then appear.
   
5. Click different user name.
   
6. In the User name field enter UKC\abc1 replacing ‘abc1’ with your own username:
   
   Do not forget to put UKC\ before your username; the process will not work otherwise. Enter your IT account password in the ‘Password’ field and click OK.
   If you will use this regularly, you can select the option to reconnect the drive automatically: this means your computer will attempt to connect the drive every time you use your PC. If you find this slows down your computer, delete this mapped drive and map to it again leaving this option unchecked: this means you will need to map to the location every time you want to access it in future.
   
7. Click Finish to map the drive. A window will appear displaying the contents of the folder you have just mapped to.

1. Click Start, My Documents, and from the top menu, select Tools, Map Network Drive.
   
2. Enter the name and location of your folder in the folder box using this format, replacing all details as appropriate for the location and name of your folder:
   if your Kent IT account username was abc1, and your folder name was abc1 on 'bodiam\Xyz' the location is: \\bodiam.kent.ac.uk\Xyz\abc1
   
   
3. Click Connect using a different user name.
   
4. In the Username field enter UKC\abc1 replacing ‘abc1’ with your own username:
   
   Do not forget to put UKC\ before your username; the process will not work otherwise. Enter your IT account password in the ‘Password’ field and click OK.
   If you select the option to reconnect the drive automatically, your computer will attempt to connect the drive every time you use your PC, and if you are not connected to the network this can slow your computer down. If you leave this option unchecked, you will need to map to the location again to access it in future.
   
5. Click OK / Finish as appropriate.

How to check which version of OS X is on your Mac

1. Click on the Apple icon in the top left of the screen and select the first option, About This Mac.
2. On the About This Mac box that pops up, the version number is directly beneath the Mac OS X title.

Instructions for OS X versions 10.6, 10.5 and 10.4

1. In the Finder menu (top of the screen), click Go then click Connect to Server. If the Finder menu does not appear at the top of the screen, click on the Finder icon from the ‘Dock’. The Finder menu : it should then appear in the top menu.
   
2. In the ‘Server Address’ box type smb: followed by the name and location of your folder in this format, replacing all details as appropriate for the location and name of your folder:
   
   if your Kent IT account username was abc1, and your folder name was abc1 on 'bodiam\Xyz' the location is: smb://bodiam.kent.ac.uk/Xyz/abc1
   Then click Connect.
   
   
3. A 'Connecting To Server' progress box will appear and another box will pop up asking for SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication. In the SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication box, enter UKC for the Workgroup/Domain, and enter your Kent IT account details. Click OK when done.
   
4. After a while a box appears showing your folder.
   
5. In the Finder menu (top of the screen) click File, Add To Sidebar. This adds a shortcut to the network drive down the left hand side of your Finder window for easy access.