How to mount a mac drive on a PC

A quick intro since this is my first post. As Tom mentioned my name is Matt Herzberger and I am web designer from Texas. I am very excited about posting on this site since I have been a fan for quite awhile. My inspiration for this post is a problem I am facing at work right now. We have a split Mac / PC office and for some reason the Mac people have kept the PC people in the dark that you can mount a Mac drive on a PC. It’s actually very simple and here is the process. On a mac you

• Click the Go menu at top >> Connect to server
• Then you enter the server address and it will usually be one of two options
• afp://example.com, or
• smb://example.com
• Pretty basic and simple

How do you do mount that mac drive on a PC?

• Click the start menu >> Run
• It will bring up a “open” prompt
• Then take the url from above
• IE smb:// or afp://example.com
• all you need is the “example” portion
• Type in \\example
• You are all mounted!!!
• You may want to right click and choose “Create shortcut” to make it easy next time.

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