We all know how much more productive we are when we share. The same goes in the business world when you are sharing and hopefully collaborating on files from a file server network shares. All Mac and PCs have the capability of utilizing network shares and drive mappings from a file server. This will not only store data for back but to collaborate on all the files in these “shares” except for H drive or Personal Home Drive. We have not only documented a formal layout of what a typical file server sharing environment looks like from IT documentation perspective but we provided pictures below.
| Drive Letters | Folder | Authentication | Description | ||||||
| H | \\server\home | server\ | Personal Home Drive | Everyone | |||||
| M | \\server\HumanResources | server\ | HR and Books | Tom, Joe, Larry | |||||
| P | \\Server\Projects | Server\ | Projects | Larry, Tom, Mark, Junior, Joaquin, Ricky, Sef | |||||
| Q | \\Server\Quotes | Server\ | Quotes | Larry, Tom, Mark, Junior, Joaquin, Sef | Rick | ||||
| R | \\Server\OfficeResources | Server\ | General Office Resources | Larry, Tom, Mark, Junior, Joaquin, Sef, Ricky |
PC Setup
Mapped drives or shares Automatically populate with domain login. Apple shares have to manually be setup.
Map drives and shortcuts placed on the desktop
Below is what Apple shares appear like on a Mac desktop
Mac desktop network shares.
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