Windows shares on a Mac

[kaiserwilhelm]

This might be in the wrong forum. However, it truly is a prepress issue to me.

I can easily get a Windows shared drive to show up on my mac (command K smb://10.1.2.XX)
Easy
What I want (need) is for that drive to be mapped as the R drive like it would be in the wonderful world of Windows.
Any takers?

I remember back 8 or so years ago when i had to have DAVE just to see Windows machines. Haven't used that in at least five years?

[esmith214]

The Mac does not do drive letters. All mounted shares are in /Volumes. That location is hidden from the Finder but can be used or accessed in a number of applications.

Why do you need an "R" drive on a Mac?

[kaiserwilhelm]

The Mac does not do drive letters. All mounted shares are in /Volumes. That location is hidden from the Finder but can be used or accessed in a number of applications.

Why do you need an "R" drive on a Mac?

We use GMC Inspire (Formerly PrintNetT). We have it loaded on Macs and PCs. I am pushing more of a Mac world as I am seeing our digital web press as more of an extension of prepress and dp together.
Inspire is fantastic on fonts transferring from a Mac to a Pc. The issue is when I open a job from a PC user where they have not included all fonts / images in the file...they link to them. If I had Volume X called out as R, it would link. Instead, it looks for R and fails.

[Joe]

Link to it via //volumename/share instead of a mapped drive letter on the PC and it will link from the Mac just fine.